p2pnet - rss feed: CRTC-approved Canadian porn channel
p2pnet news view | TV:- “Inside a cramped, dimly-lit building tucked between a bike shop and a yoga studio on Stony Plain Road, a group of young Edmonton porn actors primped, preened and greased up in preparation for a shoot yesterday.
“In front of the sole mirror a woman straightened her hair while a shirtless man rubbed oil on his chest in the background. In another room crew members fussed with sheets piled on the floor and contemplated adding a thin, foam mattress they found.”
So says Sun Media in a story (interview video included) on Northern Peaks, Canada’s first officially sanctioned pornographic video channel .
And it’s boasting 50% Canadian content, “all without the government subsidy that other Canadian productions maintain is key to their existence,” says the Calgary Herald, going on
Alberta-based Real Productions Inc. has won CRTC approval to launch Northern Peaks, billed as “Canada’s first adult video channel offering significant Canadian adult content.”
Of course, this being pornography, not everyone is happy. Social conservatives have pounced, with one organization labelling the CRTC’s decision as “detrimental to Canadian culture,” claiming that “many studies have shown the negative effects of pornography.”
Readers of another socially conservative website were urged to voice their concerns directly to the prime minister and the Heritage minister.
However, “Canadians want to see Canadian porn,” Sun Media has Ashley Corsiatto, the company’s vice-president for marketing, stating.
“One flavour of everything grows repetitive and tiresome after a while,” she says. “I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of seeing the Silicon Valley girls constantly. Different people like different things. You can’t keep serving them (the) same thing over and over and expect them to swallow it.”
Er, um, Yes.
And she emphasizes Real Productions’s “mandate” to use “amateurs rather than porn stars”.
We can see the line-ups now.
But, “Although the CRTC granted the company a licence, Real Productions still has to secure a carrier before Northern Peaks makes its way to digital cable,” says Sun.
Meanwhile, “Consider that the amount of pornography has exploded with the onset of the Internet age, and sexual assaults in Canada have plunged dramatically over the last 15 years,” says the Herald, adding:
“According to Statistics Canada, the number of sexual assaults declined by 32.6 per cent between 1994 and 2004. That drop hasn’t ended, either; 2006 numbers were down nine per cent from the previous year, and 2007 numbers were down another 4.5 per cent.”
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Sun Media - Lights, camera, action, August 16, 2008
Calgary Herald -Canadian porn channel may benefit society, August 19, 2008
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August 19th, 2008 at 8:32 am
Way back in the day, radio stations used to cram all their Canadian content into a one hour block at, like, 3am, in order to meet all the CRTC Canadian content rules.
The colloquial name for these all-Canadian shows? “The Beaver Hour”.
The jokes just write themselves.