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Originally Posted by troutman
CANCON has not helped Canadian indie bands at all on commercial radio. They continue to play the same stable of classic Canadian bands over and over. CBC 3 has a different mandate, and probably not a very big audience. The successful Canadian indie bands made it on their own merit.
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I'd disagree that it hasn't helped
"at all", at the very least it's given commercial "alternative" stations a viable reason to tuck acts like Tokyo Police Club/Metric/Mother Mother in between The Killers & Red Hot Chili Peppers during the day.
Was it the deciding factor? No absolutely not, but it holds some weight. Having said all that I don't agree with the CANCON laws and god help us if they ever get their greasy mits on what we can publish on the internet.