[bregma]

I'm old enough to remember when CanCon was brought in to broadcast TV and radio. Lots of business owners whined loudly about having to not import cheap second-hand culture from foreign places and how it cut in to their personal wealth generation capacity. There was a bit of a rough transition (cough Beachcombers cough) but eventually the investment paid off with interest.

I wouldn't resent a cultural development fee. It helps maintain a virtual wall across the southern border to protect our delicate assets.

[dblohm7]

Is it really effective across all media? Canadian radio is awful IMHO because of CanCon rules: there aren’t enough Canadian artists within a specific radio genre to saturate a station’s quota, so in many cases we end up hearing the same artists repeatedly throughout any given day.

[bregma]

That was the argument used 50 years ago. It hasn't been true for about 40 years. Unless your genre is "American pop artists" or maybe "Italian renaissance original instruments".

[dblohm7]

Really? Because all I hear on my local rock station is Nickelback.

[throwaway201103]

Bieber fatigue?

[dblohm7]

Try Nickelback! Shudder