Sunday, February 15, 2015

'Fox News North' Is Shutting Down

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/13/1364194/--Fox-News-North-Is-Shutting-Down?detail=email

The market speaks, and what it says is Get lost, nobody in Canada wants to watch your right-wing faux news:
Sun News Network is about to sign off, permanently. CBC News has learned that the cable news television channel will shut down early Friday. 
The network began broadcasting in April 2011, launching a right-of-centre programming schedule, but it has had a constant challenge attracting viewers.
The federal broadcast regulator denied Sun News a guaranteed spot on basic cable TV packages in August  2013.
Data released as part of that application showed that while the network was available to 5.1 million households, it was only attracting, on average, 8,000 viewers at any given time.
It never managed to pay its way because nobody wanted to watch it, outside of a few Canadian wingnuts (yes there are some), and the owners got tired of supporting it financially. Propaganda can get expensive, especially when you can't force people to watch it, like the way Fox News is the required channel in so many hotel lobbies, bars, spas, waiting rooms, restaurants, etc. across the U.S.
Canada shows it's better sense than us or do we have more gullible Fox viewers after all they have been concentrating on them since the 70's and like a pitbull they won't let go viewers, not trying to.

http://gawker.com/5814150/roger-ailes-secret-nixon+era-blueprint-for-fox-news  this coupled with
G W Bush's, "you can fool some of the people all of the time and those are the ones you want to concentrate on", their viewers never had a chance it was like nationwide brainwashing that is still in the works today.  those that are faithful seem to defend it with religious conviction, not healthy.
they say what goes up must come down closing up there let's hope Fox closings comes down to lower 48