Wednesday, January 14, 2009

More bad media news

I don't know that anyone's surprised, but this is more bad news for CanWest.

This part in particular caught my attention:

By contrast [to falling conventional tv revenue - ed.], CanWest's specialty TV and digital media division fattened its operating profit to $44-million from $37-million, as revenue rose by nearly $9-million to $106-million.

I'm not sure it's good news that it's the channels that carry Til Debt Do Us Part and Rich Bride, Poor Bride that are making CanWest their money. It would be nice if Global, which produces an actual drama or two (okay, maybe just one) plus excellent news programming, did better. Although my 2008 vice was Slice.

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