Maybe it's just a cultural disconnect but it's pretty rare that there's a Canadian television show I'm interested in ... though the number of U.S. shows I find

Maybe it's just a cultural disconnect but it's pretty rare that there's a Canadian television show I'm interested in ... though the number of U.S. shows I find interesting has dropped too. This sort of regulation (eventually) does a serious disservice to the industry. I've replaced television (of all sorts) with streamed video content and/or on-line reading. It's not about the delivery method it's about spending my free time watching/reading the most entertaining content. When I was little, if I hadn't brought books and magazines home from the library, the only "new" content I could be entertained by the television. New regulations on Internet content providers won't solve the CATV viewership problem it will simply push viewers from the (newly regulated) popular content providers to other providers. They're not going back to television unless someone dramatically improves the programming.