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Controversial bill to regulate online streaming becomes law in Canada
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#62As a Canadian, I am of two minds about it. FM radio is required to broadcast Canadian produced or performed music at least for 35% of the time. There are not too many, in absolute numbers, songs that are both Canadian and popular which results in few songs being broadcast to death. At least that was the case when I used to listen to FM radio. On the other hand, that legislation certainly helped Canadian artists.
When I went to visit my parents for Easter I was shocked to hear Sam Roberts' Milky Way song. That was shocking.
Re: Controversial bill to regulate online streaming becomes law in Canada
#63As a Canadian, I am of two minds about it. FM radio is required to broadcast Canadian produced or performed music at least for 35% of the time. There are not too many, in absolute numbers, songs that are both Canadian and popular which results in few songs being broadcast to death. At least that was the case when I used to listen to FM radio. On the other hand, that legislation certainly helped Canadian artists.
> FM radio is required to broadcast Canadian produced or performed music at least for 35% of the time Let's see... popular music on FM radio in the US: The Weeknd, Drake, Justin Bieber... Shawn Mendes.... Yeah, 35% sounds about right.
Radio in YYZ:
Sam Roberts, Celine Dione, Nickleback, Avril Levine. Sounds disturbed.
Re: Controversial bill to regulate online streaming becomes law in Canada
#64As a Canadian, I am of two minds about it. FM radio is required to broadcast Canadian produced or performed music at least for 35% of the time. There are not too many, in absolute numbers, songs that are both Canadian and popular which results in few songs being broadcast to death. At least that was the case when I used to listen to FM radio. On the other hand, that legislation certainly helped Canadian artists.
> FM radio is required to broadcast Canadian produced or performed music at least for 35% of the time Let's see... popular music on FM radio in the US: The Weeknd, Drake, Justin Bieber... Shawn Mendes.... Yeah, 35% sounds about right.
And 100% garbage!
(Not because it's Canadian, because it's on radio)
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
> FM radio is required to broadcast Canadian produced or performed music at least for 35% of the time Let's see... popular music on FM radio in the US: The Weeknd, Drake, Justin Bieber... Shawn Mendes.... Yeah, 35% sounds about right.
Radio in YYZ: Sam Roberts, Celine Dione, Nickleback, Avril Levine. Sounds disturbed.
"I think this is a jam", "...this is an amazing song." -Lizzo, on Nickelback's How You Remind Me
Though I can't remember the last time I heard Gordon Lightfoot on US radio. Which is a shame - he is an astonishing songwriter.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
A similar law was passed in Venezuela in ~2005. It forced radio stations to play traditional Venezuelan music as a percent of all their airtime. From the only article I could find in english [0]: > The law can make listening to the radio an adventure in dizzying contrasts. One minute a disc jockey is playing American rap, and the next minute it’s flutes and fiddles from the Andean highlands. It pushed some local arti…
> It pushed some local artist to get creative and come out with some electronic traditional music, which frakly, sucked You gotta start somewhere. I lived through a similar transition in a different country, I hated the law at the time for the same reasons. However, it lit a fire under the local music industry which now supports more artistes than before. The music now sucks much less, and the local subgenres are uni…
Yep his line of argument is lazy.
This was how France rebuilt its national cinema. Quotas work.
Re: Controversial bill to regulate online streaming becomes law in Canada
#68This is a CBC article so keep in mind its bias in favour of the Liberals who pushed this bill through. For anyone interested in a more balanced view, Michael Geist is law professor, research chair, and overall internet policy nerd. I highly recommend his review of the bill: https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2023/04/billc11end/ It's also interesting to put what the Trudeau Liberals are doing in perspective. This is just one…
> Overall, Canada's internet will look very Chinese or possibly even North Korean by the time the next elections roll about. Oh, I see. And you're accusing the CBC of "bias"?
You did not dispel his argument, even if biased; how different would it be from North Korea? (That's hyperbole but this person has a good point)
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
> FM radio is required to broadcast Canadian produced or performed music at least for 35% of the time Let's see... popular music on FM radio in the US: The Weeknd, Drake, Justin Bieber... Shawn Mendes.... Yeah, 35% sounds about right.
And 100% garbage! (Not because it's Canadian, because it's on radio)
I make no apologies for being a fan of The Weeknd. And Carly Rae Jepsen.
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It sounds cruel and unusual to torment the population with Nickelback and Justin Bieber.
Or The Band, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Shania Twain, Nelly Furtado, Alanis Morisette, Leonard Cohen, Gordon Lightfoot...
A lot of those artists don’t count as Canadian content because the producer was American.
Musician Bryan Adams has been a vocal opponent of CanCon rules since the 1990s, and it’s largely due to the fact that the federal government keeps ruling that his songs aren’t actually Canadian.
https://nationalpost.com/news/extremely-canadian-media-that-...