Quote:
Originally Posted by Mazrim
Question for Shaw customers...does Discovery HD exist? I know of Discovery World HD but can't find plain old Discovery. I want to watch Deadliest Catch in HD!  |
I've heard it's coming on Bell or maybe it was just someone's wishful thinking. Of course I hear lots of things from people supposedly in the know.
As for Space HD, I guess it isn't on Bell's free preview as I cancelled that theme a while ago in favor of the 5 HD themes and it isn't showing up on my schedule. I hate it when there is only one channel I'm interested in out of five or six in a theme and than depending on their whim or whatever they put the HD channel on a SD Theme instead of on a HD theme. What a freaking mess. I'd like to drop the SD themes altogether but to get some HD channels, I have to subscribe to both the SD theme plus the HD theme.
As for Bell or Shaw only broadcasting their own stations, I think it's against the regulations but they seem to be doing whatever they like. It is supposed to be at a 5/1 ratio.
Quote:
And here is the quote from the actual Broadcasting Distribution Regulations:
Quote:
“related programming undertaking” means a programming undertaking of which the licensee or an affiliate, or both, controls more than 10% of the total shares issued and outstanding.
...
(14) Except as otherwise provided under a condition of its licence, a licensee shall — for each Category 2 service and each exempt third-language service of a related programming undertaking that it distributes in a licensed area — distribute at least five Category 2 services or exempt third-language services, or a combination of at least five of those services, of any unrelated programming undertakings in the licensed area.
|