Murdoch opens 'Fox News North' in Canada. Thoughts OT?

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/fox-news-north-secures-broadcast-49377

Thoughts?

Sounds like the Canadians will probably love it. News corp tends to go for the pro nationalistic angle, mixed with sensationalism.

oh god, they want to spread the virus

He's going to get about 6 viewers. Canadians tend to be a little more to the left than Murdoch's target audience. LOL, Rupert Murdoch.

He's going to get about 6 viewers. Canadians tend to be a little more to the left than Murdoch's target audience. LOL, Rupert Murdoch.

sonicare

Maybe Im unclear on the report, but I thought it was going to be a new organization? Im sure they will research and find a market. Tapping into the Anti Americanism to the extreme could be viable. Imagine investigative reports on how the US is virtually stealing all of Canadas resources will appeal to the common person who fanatically hates the US.

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He's going to get about 6 viewers. Canadians tend to be a little more to the left than Murdoch's target audience. LOL, Rupert Murdoch.

majwill24

Maybe Im unclear on the report, but I thought it was going to be a new organization? Im sure they will research and find a market. Tapping into the Anti Americanism to the extreme could be viable. Imagine investigative reports on how the US is virtually stealing all of Canadas resources will appeal to the common person who fanatically hates the US.

You have it backwards. We are centre-left by nature. Even our centre-right has progressive roots in some areas. This will be on the right ideologically. The rabid anti-americanism is on the left. You cannot appeal to anti-americanism in Canada without being in favour of left leaning economic policies since the two go hand in hand.

No thanks. Don't really want that garbage here.Haziqonfire

Just a small part of our plan to take over Canada muAHAHAHAHA.

Oh please no. I live in Canada and I have seen the bs from them when watching them on the internet and we don't want any of that here. Don't get me wrong I mean there are times where even liberal networks can spread crap as well and we get them here too but Fox News takes the biggest cake.

it'll be interesting to see how thier crime rate are affected.

[QUOTE="Haziqonfire"]No thanks. Don't really want that garbage here.J-WOW

it'll be interesting to see how thier crime rate are affected.

Phaze-Two

Well, as people become more and more conservative, crime rates go down; it'll be a good thing.

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He's going to get about 6 viewers. Canadians tend to be a little more to the left than Murdoch's target audience. LOL, Rupert Murdoch.

majwill24

Maybe Im unclear on the report, but I thought it was going to be a new organization? Im sure they will research and find a market. Tapping into the Anti Americanism to the extreme could be viable. Imagine investigative reports on how the US is virtually stealing all of Canadas resources will appeal to the common person who fanatically hates the US.

Wouldn't that create a bit of a problem if one of their networks was running extremely pro-America propaganda and the other extremely anti-America propaganda? I can just see John Stewart running the Canadian and American Fox broadcasts one after the other right now.

Anyways, people saying this won't take off might not remember a time before Fox gained acceptance in this country. For the longest time everyone knew Fox was full of crap and just rabid sensationalism, but they just kept hammering and hammering and hammering, and marketing, and appealing to certain demographics in certain ways, and before you know it they're dictating national discourse. I think Fox will find a way to be successful in Canada, and I'm going to find it hilarious. Every time there's a Fox thread in OT you invariably get our Candaian neighbors showing up and saying how glad they are to not have to deal with that crap, I think some Canadians are going to get a harsh lesson in what happens with lowest common denominator newscasting.

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it'll be interesting to see how thier crime rate are affected.

entropyecho

Well, as people become more and more conservative, crime rates go down; it'll be a good thing.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100414142959AAvTn3P

check the sources, but it seems to contradict what you said.

btw I wasn't even referring to what you brought up. there was a documentary i saw (forget what) that brought up the american style of news media as one reason why americans may be more violent than canadians even though they have guns and poverty etc. there too. something about it keeping us afraid of eachother and paranoid. and since I'm guessing fox news north will bring that style of sensationalized "journalism" to canada it would be interesting to see how their crime rates are affected.

We're sorry Canada, we really are.

I think it's great. Free market capitalism. If people don't watch it, it will go away. We'll see what happens.

Hmm, I'm a Canadian. Never actually seen Fox News but has already heard tons of crap about them? So how bad are they?mystervj

think v for vendetta.

im not even kidding

I really wish news was just some dull guy sitting behind a desk panning out relatively true facts, rather than all this ridiculous editorializing and opinionizing that happens with these American channels.

The closest thing we have now is peter mansbridge, which is sad.

Fox opening up a network in Canada is akin to Fox opening up a Fox-themed board on this forum. It will never work. The country is just too liberal.

Man keep that crap out of the GTA. maybe it could work in alberta :P but true say,Ford got elected so who knows maybe toronto will listen

I won't be watching it that's for sure.

Man keep that crap out of the GTA. maybe it could work in alberta :P but true say,Ford got elected so who knows maybe toronto will listen

Thessassin

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Man keep that crap out of the GTA. maybe it could work in alberta :P but true say,Ford got elected so who knows maybe toronto will listen

bluezy

well see how it does, if it becomes successful we can always do another G20 riot, directed at fox

I don't expect this to do well at all. Most Canadians seem pretty critical of FOX already.

Interesting. I wonder how this will turn out. The real question is whether Fox blindly side with or against the Quebecois secessionist movement. :P (my money is on against)

The title of this thread needs to change. It's no longer about FOX News setting up a sector in Canada...