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Bell Canada tried to copy the Minitel scheme, which was already long in the tooth by the early '90s. For a while they also tried to get into the fax business, before finally hitting upon satellite porn . Bell Canada then quickly became North America's top hard-core porn distributor before getting exposed http://www.friends.ca/News/Friends_News/archives/a rticles03300101.asp

Bell Canada procures its porn from Colorado-based New Frontier Media, which trades on the Nasdaq. Its movies are decidedly not of the soft-porn Playboy TV variety. They depict scenes of sado-masochism, rape, torture, and other graphic acts of sexual violence that many would find morally offensive.

It was a crappy service with high fees, slow downloads, and not much content. Minitel survived as long as it did because it started a decade earlier, so they had a subscriber base that they couldn't just "dump."

Obviously you haven't heard of the 7 second delay CBC tried to enforce every time Don Cherry appears.

For those interested, there was an interesting article last July in The Globe And Mail, a Canadian national newspaper, about the differences on how the two countries handle censorship.

Speaking of CHOI, the shutdown of the radio station was delayed until March 2005.

BTW why name a French radio station after a CHINESE surname? AFAIK it doesn't have Chinese content.

The "Friends of Canadian Broadcasting" has a current TV ad campaign promoting home-grown drama television production. The spots are pretty funny and feed off the cliched ignorant-aboot-Canada American stereotype (in all four, a US director is in the great white north working on set on TV productions about Canada).

Sir John A. Macdonald (QuickTime 4.4MB):

Richard the Rocket(QuickTime 4.2MB):

Snow Gangsta (QuickTime 4.2MB):

Bobby Orr (QuickTime 2.8MB):

The "Friends of Canadian Broadcasting" has a current TV ad campaign promoting home-grown drama television production. The spots are pretty funny and feed off the cliched ignorant-aboot-Canada American stereotype (in all four, a US director is in the great white north working on set on TV productions about Canada).

Sir John A. Macdonald (QuickTime 4.4MB):

Richard the Rocket(QuickTime 4.2MB):

Snow Gangsta (QuickTime 4.2MB):

Bobby Orr (QuickTime 2.8MB):

The "Friends of Canadian Broadcasting" has a current TV ad campaign promoting home-grown drama television production. The spots are pretty funny and feed off the cliched ignorant-aboot-Canada American stereotype (in all four, a US director is in the great white north working on set on TV productions about Canada).

Sir John A. Macdonald (QuickTime 4.4MB):

Richard the Rocket(QuickTime 4.2MB):

Snow Gangsta (QuickTime 4.2MB):

Bobby Orr (QuickTime 2.8MB):

The "Friends of Canadian Broadcasting" has a current TV ad campaign promoting home-grown drama television production. The spots are pretty funny and feed off the cliched ignorant-aboot-Canada American stereotype (in all four, a US director is in the great white north working on set on TV productions about Canada).

Sir John A. Macdonald (QuickTime 4.4MB):

Richard the Rocket(QuickTime 4.2MB):

Snow Gangsta (QuickTime 4.2MB):

Bobby Orr (QuickTime 2.8MB):