| | What Makes it Canadian Television? Jonathon Brown, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | If you ask Canadian television viewers about their favourite shows, they probably won’t list off a bunch of Canadian programs and if they did they would probably be American productions filmed in Canada, as so many of them are these days. |
 | | Since its inception, "CanCon"--the 35% quota for Canadian content on television and radio in Canada, has been a proverbial thorn in the side of stations across the country, as they have been forced to limit their creativity to allow for artistic contributions from Canadians as their first priority; everything else comes second. |
 | | Canadian viewers haven’t shared the negative views of network executives, until now, when there appears to be a dwindling number of quality Canadian shows as opposed to just a few years ago. |
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