So, it’s Saturday and I’m reading the morning paper – happy to be at the end of a week where it became clearer that not much is going to happen in the Canadian television business until this whole “carriage fees” issue gets settled and the Canadian Media Fund issues its new guidelines for funding programming here.
So – like April.
We’re basically in tread water mode until April.
Oh, there’ll still be some stuff getting made. And we’ve now got no excuse for not working on that script we’ve been meaning to write if we had time. But until everybody in broadcasting knows:
A) how much of somebody else’s money they have to spend
and
B) how many Americans they can have showrunning or writing or starring in or directing their “Canadian” shows
…nobody is committing to anything major.
For the next 6 months, the only people getting a regular pay check in the Canadian TV business will be the bureaucrats who oversee our operations. Why the government has to keep paying them when there is little or nothing to oversee is an argument for another day.
However, getting back to that morning paper. Because I found a story that not only offered a solution to our problems but might also help out tens of thousand of our fellow Canadians facing imminent unemployment.
The gist of this story is that the $787 Billion American stimulus bill signed into law by President Obama this summer is literally killing a lot of Canadian companies.
For the rest of the article -- the implications of the stimulus, and Jim's surprising solution...head on over to The Legion of Decency. It's worth the read.
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