CTV Do Not Call List show airs tonight
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- The CTV show on the CRTC / Bell Canada Do Not Hesitate to Call list will be aired tonight on the 6 o’clock news in Montreal.
We don’t know if it’ll be picked up by CTV affiliates in other cities, but the likelihood of being a full-blown, in-depth report didn’t seem to be high.
CTV was recently looking for people to talk to, but we understand it didn’t have a lot of takers.
This may not be surprising considering Bell Canada, which both runs the list under the auspices of the CRTC, and uses it as a telephone spam utility, has a significant – 15% - interest in CTV.
But, “We’re mostly owned by the Ontario Teacher’s Pension Plan,” CTV s=researcher Karla told p2pnet recently, adding:
“AND, even when Bell owned a bigger share of CTV, we would still do stories about Bell when customers would tell us about bad customer service.
“I can understand that people are suspicious, but I can assure you, as a human being who cares about my own research, that I push myself to be as impartial as possible.”
Stay tuned.
p2pnet – No fears for CTV Do Not Call List story, February 12, 2009
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February 16th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
1) “…even when Bell owned a bigger share of CTV, we would still do stories about Bell …”
I’ve yet to see any of these “Bell stories” do any real negative publicity to Bell. Every time Bell is mentioned, a transgression is described as “alleged” at best. They bring up a few “juicy” points, but let the whole thing fade away in oblivion – every time. People with obviously “more to say” are quite often not being asked to say more.
2) “…we’re mostly owned by the Ontario Teacher’s Pension Plan…”
The same people who were poised to buy out Bell, and, to the best of my knowledge may still end up doing so.
I’d be interested in knowing how they went about acquiring “people to talk to”, and how there could be such a shortage in that department. It’s not like there’s a shortage of people out there that wouldn’t have gladly bent their ears with a good Bell rant. But I guess it’s hard finding people who only want to say “so much”, without going “over the line”.
Even though they’re only airing it in Montreal, I’ll find the transmission and watch it.
…But I’ll go into it with absolutely no expectations.
February 16th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
I thought I’d look for anything else “Karla” had done by searching CTV Montreal…
“Your search for [ karla freulein ] found the following documents:
Your search has returned no results”
: (
So, I guess Karla isn’t one that would ultimately present anything herself.
February 16th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
^^ She’s a researcher, not a presenter.
Cheers!
February 16th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
@Jon:
Were you given the name of the presenter?
(Might help in locating the transmission.)
February 16th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
^^ Nope. Sorry.
Cheers!
February 16th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Thanks anyway.
(You know I’ll find it!)
)8^D>
February 16th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Someone from Montreal upload it to youtube for us.
February 17th, 2009 at 4:01 am
Can’t find dick about the story on the CTV website besides the original story advising people to call the do not call list.. hmmmmmm
February 17th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
I saw nothing on TV about it at all.
February 17th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Yep.
This story would seem to have been “postponed”.
It didn’t air, and there’s not a whiff of it anywhere.