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Tuesday May 29, 2001
SHAW CABLE SEEKING EXEMPTION FROM MANDATORY HOMOSEXUAL CHANNEL
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OTTAWA, May 29, 2001 (LSN.ca) - Shaw Communications Inc., the Calgary based cable company which serves most cable markets west of Winnipeg, is asking the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to allow it to exempt customers from having to subscribe to a homosexual channel. The Financial Post section of the National Post reports today that Jim Shaw, the company's chief executive, explained that his company would face a "consumer revolt" if it forced customers to accept PrideVision, a homosexual channel, as part of their cable package. PrideVision is one of 16 English-language digital channels set to launch this fall that the CRTC insists must be carried by all cable companies.
While the Rogers Cable company seemed to have little problem with PrideVision, Quebec cable companies Cogeco and VidŽotron ltŽe simply advise that the channels should each be available to the public and thus consumers would be allowed to select according to their interests.
Roy Beyer of the Canada Family Action Coalition told LifeSite that "people should not be forced to have to bring channels into their homes they find objectionable." He said, "it should be a matter of choice not a matter of force." Beyer, urged concerned cable customers to include with their bill payment a note expressing their views on the matter.
For more see the Financial Post at:
http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20010529/575659.html&qs...
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