Not Nickelback.

If it means I won't have to hear Loverboy on my rock station, I'm all for it.

Quit signing crappy acts.

Gimme an R (R!)
O (O!)
C (C!)
K (K!)
Whatcha got? (Rock!)
And whatcha gonna do? (Rock you!)

Helix for the win!

As long as they keep working Toby Keith into the rotation of my local country station I don't care how often they play George Jones or Stompin' Tom.

Yes, but are they using CANADIAN eyeshadow?????

robotwithglasses: Gimme an R (R!)
O (O!)
C (C!)
K (K!)
Whatcha got? (Rock!)
And whatcha gonna do? (Rock you!)

\m/ \m/

At least they apologized for Bryan Adams.

submitter: Canada's CRTC aboat to define "hit song" in order to enforce quota of radio airplay for new Canadian artists

aboat? i was expecting aboot

it's been said, but i'll say what i came here to say anyway

it's a boot not a boat you idiot

I'm a music director in Canadian radio...Can Con regs are the bane of my life.

Most Canadian acts that you hear on the radio are there to fill quotas.

It's musical welfare.

Just another great idea from the Liberals.

You know, Pink Floyd's The Wall counts as Can Con because Bob Ezrin (Producer) is one of us.

More You Know...

What does this mean for stations (like 92 CITI FM in Winnipeg) that are dedicated to playing classic rock? Do they all of a sudden have to start playing new, shiatty, shiatty music just to please the government or what? Everyone knows most music produced after 1990 is absolute garbage anyway.

Talk about inviting corruption! This will make the payola scandals of the fifties look like child's play. At least in the fifties it was only corrupt DJs and stations but now you have the GOVERNMENT deciding on the publics taste. Suppose some Canadian band offends those in power, do they get dumped to the "do not play list?" Could a crappy band graft its way on to the play lists? The mind boggles!

Three words, SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO

radioberlin: You know, Pink Floyd's The Wall counts as Can Con because Bob Ezrin (Producer) is one of us.

That may explain the price, Bob, which I hear was "pretty low".

/1GBP=1.96469CAD

Because People in power are Stupid
Sandbox, FTW?

robotwithglasses: Gimme an R (R!)
O (O!)
C (C!)
K (K!)
Whatcha got? (Rock!)
And whatcha gonna do? (Rock you!)

YOU RULE!!!! I have a live recording of that song when they played it at some club in Detroit!

/Helix

battery668: What does this mean for stations (like 92 CITI FM in Winnipeg) that are dedicated to playing classic rock? Do they all of a sudden have to start playing new, shiatty, shiatty music just to please the government or what? Everyone knows most music produced after 1990 is absolute garbage anyway.

Nah, it just means more Neil Young and Steppenwolf.

GS850: I'm a music director in Canadian radio...Can Con regs are the bane of my life.


yeah that's why cfny the edge is universally considered to suck because it plays the same crap over and over.

sorry but we hear enough crap about "no market" which roughly translate to "no hooker and coke money from the record company for me"

you can't know if there's a market if you don't play it, and your refusal to play stuff means it doesn't sell, so you aren't creating a market for the stuff in the first place.

take ebm and industrial music, 2 of the largest acts in the genre are both canadian being skinny puppy and frontline assembly, both have virtually no airplay, yet they sell out shows easily. also there's several club night dedicated to just that and have been for many years in a couple cities with little change of format

it's not that there's no market it's your refusal to actually play stuff you aren't being bribed to play, i'm all for this move by the crtc

also i do believe it's the conservatives in power right now, not the liberals

thexdane:

I really do wish we WERE being bribed, but payola hasn't happened for a long long time.

Yes, bands like Skinny Puppy can sell out shows, but their audience is still much too small for any radio stations wanting to grab a market share large enough to sell advertising.

The Conservatives are in power right now, but the Liberals, who were in power in 1970 when Can-con started, are to blame for it.

the more you know...

Canada has some of the most draconian censorship laws in the free world. An yet the Canooks get so upset when you point that out. They are so worried about preserving their "culture" that they won't even accept any form of constructive criticism or grievance.

In short, they are like the French without the historical significance.

In my experience, it really is more like "aboat" than "aboot", or "Let's go oat" instead of "Let's go out" or "Let's go oot."

/Just one Newfie's experience

The Verge ("new and emerging Canadian artists") is my favorite station on XM, and I'm not even Canadian.

/Bryan Adams sucks, Thor sucks, Celine Dion sucks, Rush sucks

battery668: Everyone knows most music produced after 1990 is absolute garbage anyway.

I am sick and farking tired of hearing this. Most music has ALWAYS been garbage, but over the years, that music is FORGOTTEN. Look at the charts from twenty, thirty, forty, etc. years ago and it's always full of shiat. There were crappy, flash-in-the-pan musicians in the time of Bach too, but they were forgotten and replaced by more memorable music. This is the way it has always been and always will be, and I'm not about to let people like you turn this thread into yet another generational circle-jerk.

This is a good idea - Ireland has had quotas for a long time, and now music is one of their biggest exports. Here in NZ, voluntary quotas were introduced a few years back, and sales of local music shot through the roof - commercial radio will never play local stuff on its own, but once they do, they realise people aren't so opposed to it after all.

You never complain about all the barriers and tariffs the US has to prevent foreigners accessing your markets in other areas, this isn't really any different.

I hate Canadian Content laws. My old radio show was constantly at odds with the station directors over the ways in which I would skirt the laws, not to mention the station's own retarded "indie" sensibility that says once an artist has gotten too popular we have to stop playing them. And by too popular I don't mean Celine Dion levels of popularity, I mean like The Arcade Fire.

I'm a new and emerging canadian artist, so I'm getting a hit out of these replies...

I don't know, Can-Con used to mean something when there was some good bands working hard ie,
Headstone, O.L.P. I mother earth. Moist. Mathew Good Band, Big Suger(I hate them), Age of Electrtic. The list could go on and on!

But that was Farking 10-15 years ago, They are not the Tragically Hip, let them fade into obscurity!

I bet the people south of the boarder wondering who the hell those bands are.

Not those of us in Buffalo, of course.

/heading North this weekend

This is a GOOD THING! I wish the US gave even a slight concern for new music. I'm astounded that this opinion is so under-represented in this thread. When an article comes up regarding the RIAA, all I read are posts crying "down with the music industry" and "power to the emerging artists." I guess that translates to "Here's how I justify stealing music." Don't get me wrong, I despise the RIAA. I just want to see some of the FANTASTIC original, independent music I hear all the time to be heard by the masses. I am so disgusted with the repetetive, manufactured, Pringles-can drivel forced upon us by a lazy, greedy music industry. Maybe I should just move to Canada.

There's some good new music on the horizon..

http://www.myspace.com/theturnmusic

These guys are gonna be a hit.
I cannot pimp this band enough.

Rh.: I don't know, Can-Con used to mean something when there was some good bands working hard ie,
Headstone, O.L.P. I mother earth. Moist. Mathew Good Band, Big Suger(I hate them), Age of Electrtic. The list could go on and on!

But that was Farking 10-15 years ago, They are not the Tragically Hip, let them fade into obscurity!

I bet the people south of the boarder wondering who the hell those bands are.

Well, apart from Trag being one of my favourite bands, I've heard of Matthew Good. And that's it.

/Australian

galactus5000: Well, apart from Trag being one of my favourite bands, I've heard of Matthew Good. And that's it.

OLP == Our Lady Peace. If you haven't heard of them I really am surprised.

I'm not surprised you haven't heard of the Headstones, but they are one of my favourite bands of all time. Too bad Hugh Dillon quit doing smack and they broke up.

Who are these people to define what is a hit , or to define anything for that matter!1

I mean you'd think it was their country or something!