Sun News Network Shutting Down

[ryandir]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toront...rces-1.2955664

too bad. They were a good supporter of hunting shows.

[MikePal]

I wasn't a regular viewer, but when I saw something that provided the 'other' side of the story, the one you don't get from the CBC, it was worth watching..(usually youtube videos). I never like Ezra's style so I couldn't watch it for long...much like Fox, for the most part the announcers are annoying.

At least they're still right wing newspapers on line to keep the balance.

[Wahoo]

Its supporters blamed the CRTC for not giving it the same access enjoyed by news channels operated by CBC and CTV.

Access - not a handout, not the hundreds of millions of tax dollars like the CBC, but access. Way to go CRTC.

[kickingfrog]

Tough week for fake news.

[smallgamer]

Tough week for fake news.

Right. Like their coverage of the High River gun grab....which no "real" news outlet covered. Even the Red Star recognizes the value of SNN, as well as liberal journalist/author and Liberal back room strategist Warren Kinsella.

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2015/02/13/demise-of-sun-news-network-narrows-field-of-debate-editorial.html


http://warrenkinsella.com/2015/02/dear-sun-news-network-folks/

[outdoorlife]

We can guarantee items like Justin Trudeau taking $1,700,000 from charities and school boards for speaking fees, Benjamin Levin's trial, Justin speaking about why we need to be carbon taxed etc. won't be heard any more.

Wynne thanked the CBC reporter for all the hard work after getting re-elected. We may have just seen the loss of the media that will cover what the Liberals and the National broadcaster don't want Canadians to know and Justin may be thanking them in the fall.

with 8,000 viewers, it's a real stretch to claim it was being heard before. I'd guess a great many conservatives find Ezra revolting too.......

[kickingfrog]

the High River gun grab....which no "real" news outlet covered.

That is completely untrue, or the "rest of us" would have never have heard about it.

[smallgamer]

Okay, I'll grant you that. I should have said that no one else covered it to the extent that SNN did, nor did the other news sources examine the abuse of authority by the RCMP. If they did, I missed it. And I pay attention.

[bushman]

Fake news you want kicking frog, still available cbc a.k.a. charitable broadcasting corporation. They could not report a a dog or fight without their own biased political spin on it. If SNN or any other network for that matter, received the huge handouts that cbc does they would still be on the air. I personally hope that cbc gets totally cut off from the money trough. If they are as great as some peole seem to think they should be able to get by on their own without our tax payer dollars. Me, i would rather fund SNN than cbc, just saying.

[kickingfrog]

Why does sun news being a joke and a failure, and saying so, mean I support the cbc?

Me, i would rather fund SNN than cbc, just saying.

You can't not the latter and can't the former.... Just saying.