CBC & CTV availability via any DBS providor?

[dberez]

Is anyone aware if Canada's two main channels (CBC and CTV) are available from any DBS providor in the United States.

So far, my search has turned up zilch.

David in Tulsa, OK.

[Steve Mehs]

CTV and CBC are not on either US DBS provider, and most likely will never be due to copyrights and programming rights. A grey subscription to *C or BEV are needed to get CBC and CTV.

[dberez]

What is *C or BEV?

David

[Steve Mehs]

Star Choice and Bell Express Vu, the two Canadain DBS Providers. You can subscribe to local packages, but I don't believe there are National feeds of CTV and CBC available on the 2 systems.

[Scott Greczkowski]

I just had my ExpressVu turned back on and am glad I got it back. :) The MTV music awards were shown uncensored today (not that it was worth watching) and the Osbornes will be show without the bleeps as well.

Why is it that the Canadains can see American shows unedited while us Americans see the censored versions?

[Steve Mehs]

Becasue of the idea of 'Family tv'. I would like to see South Park unedited and see some of the scenes that had to be cut out, including scences from the movie that would have given it an NC-17 rating. I think Matt and Trey should do a direct to video release of the real South Park movie, hey who knows it might even end up on Global, if it would actually happen :)

[Sean]

What is a GREY subscription? How do you get Bell in the US?

[Steve Mehs]

A Grey Market subscription means your subscribing to a foreign DBS service via an address broker.

Here's a great link that helped me understand BEV in the us
http://home.earthlink.net/~mbfrey/evu/
and heres another http://www.kusat.com/go.php?path=/ev/index.php

[RJS1111111]

http://www.global-cm.net/CAN/canadiansolution.html

[davidmin]

FWIW, You can get CBC's "The National" on DirecTV's NewsWorld International.

David

[The New Davidp]

In order to get as many channels as were free on CBand in the 80's, one must have 2 pizza dishes: 1 US + 1 Canadian - and then you still fdon't even get the full HBO package

[Dave Johnson]

I could understand CTV not being on American DBS because of the amount of American shows being broadcasted. CBC should be a different story as they have mostly home grown Canadian programming and virtually no American programming.

Btw Scott did you watch the uncensored premiere of the Osbournes on CTV last night? :) They even had to bleep the commercials.

[Scott Greczkowski]

No I missed it! So there were no bleeps? :) Damn I was just watching VH-1 Classic all night last night as there was nothing else on TV.

[Dave Johnson]

Scott besides the American network premiers last night. Fastlane and Enterprise were new last night night on Canadian tv. We also got Sopranos season premier. Check out this Canadian tv site. http://www.channelcanada.com/index.php?module=PostCalendar&func=view

[Steve Mehs]

I also forgot about The Osbournes :(

[Ontarian]

Lots of the "F" word on CTV. Surprising that CTV got almost zero complaints about it. Did Buffalo cable companies black it out??

[Steve Mehs]

I don't know, I'll try to find out though, It would be interestring to see what they did. Only the Adelphia systems carry 9 and 5. The TW systems used to carry 5, 9 and 11 years ago, but dropped them in favor of EWTN, C-SPAN2 and Animal Planet.

[Brian Rector]

Dont forget that you can see hockey games from CTV & also CBC's Hockey Night In Canada only on DirecTV's NHL Center Ice.