And finally...

Only Americans can own television and radio licenses in the US. Rupert Murdoch had to become an American to pursue his plans with FOX. Given the population dominance of the US within the English speaking North American landscape [15x that of Canada], any American broadcast network will be significantly larger than any similar entity anywhere in the world.

By not maintaining territorial sovereignty to markets, as argued by Parnel and Simon and others, it simply means that Canadian businesspeople will never own or operate television or radio stations or networks in our own country because the American networks would overwhelm both the economics and the content of anthing we could provide. We would have no way of entering the US market unless we became American companies, changed nationality and set up south of the border.

And in the end, we would never see any Canadian news or stories about ourselves because none of this would be of interest to 85% of the market that would thus exist. Our history would be mistold with all the distortions Hollywood is famous for when it comes to how the US single-handedly won WWII, not to mention the War of 1812. There would be no viable local stations unless they were affiliated to US networks who would supply 90% of the programming.

This would be worse than the Branch Plant economy and culture we have been accused of tolerating, but a thorough colonization of our marketplace and information sources.

But none of this seems to matter...does it?