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There's an episode of [0] The Ongoing History of New Music, Episode 702: A Brief(ish) History of CanCon, where they cover the [1] Broadcasting Act of Canada, wh

• ipaddr 5y ago
  Bad for consumers. Great for major Canadian labels. It does little for indie music. When Bieber, Drake start being played every hour I'm not sure anyone really wins. When it first came out it helped expose some new music. What it became was another tool to feed the machine.
  • FractalParadigm 5y ago
    I think that's ultimately where it backfired. Back when it was introduced it made sense, a way to keep American media and culture from completely drowning out our own. But now that most stations are required to have 40% of their content Canadian, you end up with loops of Bieber, Drake, Rush, BNL, or the Hip getting played every 20-25 minutes. It honestly gets tiring hearing "Courage" or "Tom Sawyer" played 3-4 times during my 8-hour shift, every single day.
    • SKCarr 5y ago
      That was also the situation in the late-90s when I was listening to the radio all day in Toronto. I would argue that it actually hurt the development of the Canadian music scene in many respects because it made everything so top heavy. You were either the Hip, BNL, or OLP or you weren't on the radio. A select few bands reaped all of the benefits. Ironically, these bands would have found success without the MAPL system, but with it they were incredibly over-exposed in Canadian markets. The scene was also quite stagnant because even a "New Rock" station like the Edge would play the same set of Canadian songs for years at a time.
  • StrictDabbler 5y ago
    Chickity China, the Chinese chicken You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin' Watching X-Files with no lights on We're dans la maison I hope the Smoking Man's in this one Like Harrison Ford, I'm getting frantic Like Sting, I'm tantric Like Snickers, guaranteed to satisfy Like Kurosawa, I make mad films, 'kay, I don't make films But if I did they'd have a Samurai Gonna get a set of better clubs Gonna find the kind with tiny nubs Just so my irons aren't always flying off the back-swing Gotta get in tune with Sailor Moon 'Cause that cartoon has got the boom anime babes That make me think the wrong thing All of which is to say, without CanCon do we really think this would encapsulate the late 90's experience in Canada?
  • salamandersauce 5y ago
    It's even worse on TV. Stuff like Stargate SG-1, a show set in the U.S, geared towards a U.S audience, is about secret U.S Air Force operations is considered Canadian content because it has Canadian writers, actors and is filmed in B.C for financial reasons. The whole point was to encourage "Canadian Culture".
• jonny_eh 5y ago
  If the Canadian government wants to support Canadian artists, just pay them. Don't force other people to pay.
  • 908B64B197 5y ago
    They could just make art that people want to buy.
  • gruez 5y ago
    Yeah but that would involve a line item in the budget, whereas this is stealthily hidden in the cost of media subscriptions.