The CRTC

“Blue 22, Down, Set, Hut”

“Brady gets the ball from Koppen, back in to pass, pump fakes, throws, caught by Moss at the 40, dodges a tackle, makes it to the 50, the 45, the 40, he’s still running at the 30, the 25, the 20, the 10, TOUCHDOWN! THE NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS WIN THE SUPER BOWL!!!...

“We interrupt this program to give you an important message…” And your NFL Super Bowl presentation is cut off to show you a commercial, about a car or make-up! I mean com’on! If you haven’t noticed already I’m going to talk to you about why the CRTC should not interrupt programs because we need to broadcast Canadian things.

The CRTC stands for the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission and, unfortunately, is required in the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Acts. The CRTC, I think, should not be enforced by the law. I think if you want to broadcast Canadian things, we should have more Canadian shows like Flashpoint (based in Toronto), Hockey Night in Canada, and my local station carries Kitchener Ranger games. Now, those are Canadian shows. Maybe you should approach Jerry Bruckheimer (executive producer of all three CSI’s) or Shane Brennan (executive producer of both NCIS’s) to make a CSI: Toronto or a NCIS: Vancouver.

But maybe the CRTC is a good thing. The CRTC gives the local community, of the TV station, a chance to voice what they do and how they help the community. But maybe they should let us off the hook for the Super Bowl. If you have never seen, even one Super Bowl commercial then you should go to YouTube and type in Super Bowl commercial, and sit back and have fun. Maybe then you will agree with me that the CRTC should be illegal, not required by the law.

So in conclusion, I think that if the Canadian Government wants to get Canadian things out to the Canadian public, make Canadian shows. If you aren’t going to make shows like that, then either stop the CRTC or make some shows that have always had funny/meaningful commercials, let them air the funny commercials.