Post #2788050

2026-05-23 15:50 UTC

Canada has had good local content laws for a few decades now. Because of the local content law in radio and television, we got Celion Dion and Bieber and Drake. Prior to that all the music was American or British. We have a lot of local shows now. It’s always cheaper for broadcasters/streamers to buy a license than ask someone to make/produce shows and buy them. This forces them to source locally and give local talent a chance.

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@savvie@lemmy.zip 2026-05-23 16:58

also, “The Great White North” on SCTV eh?

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@emmanuel_car@k.fe.derate.me 2026-05-23 16:21

Because of the local content law in radio and television, we got Celion Dion and Bieber and Drake. Is this a selling point or..?

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@boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2026-05-24 19:29

I can't comment on Celine Dion (not my kind of music at all, I literally know only one song and I bet you know which one), but Bieber took like a decade to start putting out music that didn't actively make people want to kill themselves and Drake is both a pedophile and more importantly, not really that good. Kendrick dissed him and he tried to sue the label instead of dissing him back. Not necessarily great examples IMO, even if numerically successful. I mean the latter two because, again, the first is just not my genre whatsoever. Canada has some actually great TV shows though. Trailer Park Boys, Letterkenny come to mind first. I've heard a lot of good about Schitt's creek but haven't seen it yet.

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