CreativeRandom said:
Come on, just search "ban fox news" and you'll get all the results you'll want about private groups calling for the ban of Fox News.
Here, the link for Yahoo with keywords "Fox news broadcasting banned".
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=fox+news+broadcasting+banned&fr=FP-tab-web-t&toggle=1&cop=&ei=UTF-8
On the first handful of pages I did not see one single private group lobbying for the ban of Fox News, I did however find one letter on some fairly stupid looking website written by "anonymous":
http://www.oreilly-sucks.com/foxenglandban.htm - one guy is hardly a private lobby organisation, unless you think an editorial website called O'Reilly Sucks qualifies. Please provide specific links, shouldn't be too hard to do your own research if there are "literally hundreds" as you previously asserted.
Canada never banned Fox News, if you read the link you provided earlier to the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission):
In this context, the Commission made reference to Fox News Canada, Decision CRTC 2000-565, 14 December 2000, in which it had approved an application by Global Television Network, on behalf of a corporation to be incorporated (Global), for a licence to carry on a new Category 2 specialty programming service to be known as Fox News Canada. The Commission also noted that, in Deadline to commence operation of Category 2 specialty and pay television services, Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2003-599, 16 December 2003, it had approved a request by Global for a one-year final extension, to 24 November 2004, in the deadline date for implementation of the Fox News Canada service.
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In Public Notice 2004-45, the Commission further noted that the CCTA had attached to its request a letter dated 31 March 2004 from Fox News, the non-Canadian partner in Fox News Canada. In that letter, Fox News addressed the Fox News Canada service as follows: "Fox News does not intend to implement this service and therefore will not meet the extended deadline to commence operations." The Commission noted in Public Notice 2004-45 that the CCTA had not provided any information from Global concerning Global’s plans for Fox News Canada.
It is my understanding that it is generally up to the cable companies in Canada to implement coverage of foriegn networks, and the original deal between such a company and Fox News was approved by the CRTC, however it was Fox News that refused to provide all the services that the cable company originally requested including a lot of Canada-specific programming. Later, the request for Fox News to directly broadcast was approved with ease. Doesn't sound like much of a ban to me.
Interesting to note, Canada allows Al-Jarzeera.
To quote
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1089894102595_32/?hub=TopStories
In its ruling issued Thursday, the CRTC said distributors of Al-Jazeera in Canada will be required to guard against the broadcast of "any abusive comment." That could mean the editing or deleting of some content before it airs.
"We're not going to take that liability to censor. It's not practical. For all practical purposes, that decision is as good as saying no to al-Jazeera," said Michael Hennessy of the Canadian Cable Television Association, which fought to bring the station to Canada.
If the CRTC ever decides that Al-Jazeera violated its rules, the regulator could impose consequences ranging from a reprimand to revoking permission to air the service.
Rogers Cable, a major player in Canada, has said 24/7 monitoring is too strict, and it's unlikely they'll carry the channel.
So even if they do start broadcasting Al Jazeera, it will be exhaustively moderated by the CRTC. So heavily in fact that practically everyone agrees it would lose money and thus will probably never see air.
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