Originally Posted by Shareholder
"Extras" is owned by Gervais' production company and the BBC. It will run on BBC Canada which owns the Canadian market rights. He will get paid more from running it this way, than permitting the American network to spill it over into Canada.
Care to point to the place on the BBC Canada site that says they are planning to run it? Even if they do, the key is "it WILL". Not "it does". Here's a big part of the reason people have US dishes. Not having to wait for the Canadian market to catch up. Like I said, eventually you can watch pretty much anything. But at a moment in time, the TV selection in Canada is generally empty unless the US networks have something on. Millions of paying DirecTV and Echostar customers in Canada can't be wrong.
As for the Expos, when they were in Montreal, they are the ones who demanded black outs in Canada to protect their market rights.
That shows you are way out of date on the reality of the situation with the club. Way back when they demanded black outs. More recently, no Canadian channel would carry them other than for a few games at most unless the Expos paid THEM or sold the advertising themselves. A far cry from Duke and Dave in the 1980s.
So again, on a dish, I could see both of those when they were first shown. Not days/weeks/months later or in the latter case, never.
Should rabbit ears be outlawed also?
Simon