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INTERVENTIONS Final Count Requests to appear in support:
Opposing Interventions from corporate swelled head and losers club:
The CTRC instructed us to only answer the Canadian Association of Broadcaster's intervention. Upon analysis of the above opposing interventions it's clear that all are misrepresenting and quoting out context the same documents. One person wrote them all? They also display the same superiority complex: all their programming is god's gift to broadcasting and all our programming is "clearly inferior." Jan says: Toronto- November 13,1999 Interventions are over and we are in for some surprises! I am overwhelmed by the outpouring of support from Canadians for myself and Star Ray TV. Many of you have stories of being denied access to the mainstream Toronto media. I am particularly happy about all the independent producers that are interested in supplying programming to Star Ray TV. I would like to acknowledge the support of the Lakesider, Beach Metro News, and the Town Crier for great coverage of Star Ray TV and the Eye newspaper for a free ad. Thanks also to the CRTC for making sure our hearing notice got published in the Toronto Sun. Does anyone doubt me now when I have said that broadcasting in Canada is controlled by the "wealthy corporate elite " after looking at the negative interventions Star Ray TV has received? Our negative interventions read like the who's who of Canadian broadcasting barons, people who own more broadcast properties than they can keep track of. Read their pathetic arguments desperately trying to keep Star Ray TV off the air. Any of you logging in from other countries aren't you getting a good laugh at the expense of our corporate broadcast losers? How much foreign content do you have in your country? Notice that we do not have negative interventions from the Canadian public. "Average Janes and Joes" support Star Ray TV 100%. The money grubbing greed of Canada's corporate broadcasters is quite evident in their interventions. To state that Star Ray TV's programming is similar to anything that is currently on the air in Toronto is a joke, what Toronto station is expressing our viewpoint and has any of the same programs at all? The answer is none, we plan on broadcasting everything that they don't. City TV was a garbage dump of a plant when they first went on the air and in many ways still is. At City TV's license renewal hearings in 1994 Moses stated that City TV prefers to build equipment instead of buying it. People tell me that they went on the air with green pictures and broadcast from the top of 4 stories at 99 Queen Street East on channel 79. They must have had a lot of viewers across the street. They would have been nothing without cable carriage. I wonder how they ever got a license? These same people now are attacking Star Ray TV. City TV now has grown into Chum television. This gluttonous corporate beast has swallowed several small Ontario TV stations and infected them with the Moses Znaimer virus. This "programming genius" holds the dubious distinction of the lowest ratings in the history of CBC TV broadcasting for his special on media, TVTV: The Television Revolution. He is noted for putting on cheapest crap you can possibly produce and still make money. Moses got his start at City TV by airing pornographic "Blue Movies" something he is doing again. He has a group of followers on Queen Street West that think they're trendy. Star Ray TV's physical plant is far superior to early City TV in every way. We have picked the much more efficient frequency: UHF channel 15. Our transmitter is on high ground 32 floors up. The ground alone is 250 feet higher than Queen and Yonge Streets. There is nothing in the way of our signal except for the downtown towers most of which we clear. Most of our coverage area will get a nice crisp clear signal on UHF channel 15. Our digital video is far superior in concept and performance to anything that City TV has today. We are capable of 100% direct digital production from shooting to airing. The new digital equipment we are using has been on the market only 4 months. Star Ray TV is and will continue to be on the forefront of digital TV, this new stuff is has a totally unbelievable price/performance ratio. The only time the signal is analogue is when it is broadcast. Anyone that has seen our experimental broadcasts knows how much better our on the air signal is than City TVs'. Any older equipment we own is top of the line broadcast equipment not some amateur garbage that we built. We have thousands of hours of sweat equity in Star Ray TV and close to 2 kilometres of cable interconnecting the plant. City TV is questioning our ability to produce quality shows, I wonder how we ever could be as unprofessional and amateurish as City TV. Have they bothered to read Star Ray TV's viewer's "Bill of Rights?" How many professional women are willing to put up with City TV's employee sexual harrassment detailed in the Toronto Sun, let alone the rumours and gossip on this subject? I would like to see one of our independent producers go to City TV and get offered a show! Roger's intervention: "In our view, the local programming needs of the residents of the Greater Toronto Area are, to a considerable extent, satisfied by Rogers' television." Can someone provide me with a list of access studios that Rogers closed when they took over local cable systems? Do they operate a studio in the Beaches? How does giving Erin Davis ,a well known broadcaster with lots of air time, community access time promote giving access to marginal groups? A cable station does not "broadcast" anything. Rogers Community Ten is not on the air. Rogers is of the opinion that you can exclusively watch community programming on cable. The community doesn't exist beyond cable TV subscribers. Be dammed if you don't have cable TV, you can't watch city council meetings or any "community" programming. Rogers City of Toronto coverage is so poor that city officials have complained to me about Rogers lackadaisical and unprofessional production of city council meetings. I wonder how Rogers spends $55K a year on city council coverage in Toronto and Mississauga when by their own admission they are using unpaid volunteers to produce the meetings. In the case of the City of Toronto, the City owns all the equipment and does the maintenance. Are these lousy productions all Rogers gets for $55K? CTV intervention:" Accordingly we believe that the Application (always capitalized in the CTV intervention) does not further the objectives of the Broadcasting Act and is not in the best interest of the Canadian broadcasting system." I guess that since they have no evidence or facts to work with they might as well believe. Now, is CTV claiming to be a religion and Ivan Fecal is their high priest? Ops! Did I have a typo? None of these corporate broadcast barons seem to want to acknowledge that broadcast frequencies are public property, only they have the "divine right" to broadcast. How dare a media activist techie like Jan Pachul apply to their exclusive club! It should be noted that Rogers Cablesystems is the only Toronto distribution outlet that objected to carriage of Star Ray TV. Absent is Look TV, Star Choice, Express VU, and all other affected cablesystems except Rogers. Only 2 out of nine Toronto market television stations objected to Star Ray TV and none of the radio stations. Rogers Community Channel Ten doesn't count because it isn't an on the air primary service. Using Rogers famous negative billing logic, this means that all of the Toronto radio stations, 88% of the TV stations, and a large majority of Toronto TV distribution outlets all support Star Ray TV! Media democracy U.S. style: In the early eighties the US Federal Communications Commission issued a national call for low power television applications. There were no qualifications for the applicants to meet, except that you had to be on the air in within one year of the licence award. The application form was two pages long. It basically asked for your name, address and some technical details of your proposed station. TV station license awards where then made Las Vegas' style by random lottery. Canadian broadcast barons take note, none of you have a chance to control anything in the US. Look what is happening to Bill Gates. It's only Canadian third-world mentality that allows you unsavory characters to operate and control everything here. The buck stops with Star Ray TV! At the present time about 1600 low power TV stations are on the air in the US. You can check the websites of U.S. Low power stations plus TV stations worldwide at http://www.tvradioworld.com. Please pay particular attention who owns what stations in Canada and in Ontario Can you count all the stations that our greedy opposition owns? Can you find any other independently owned TV station in Ontario besides CITS in Hamilton ? Well friends and neighbours, that's all for now. Thanks for all the super interventions. I know you all want "Prime Time for Canadians!" I must confess I'm having a great time cutting up our moronic opposition wealthy corporate elite. These morons picked the fight not me, let's see if they can go the rounds. Looks like a big fight in Hull in December. Fight the Power, Jan |