Quebecor to launch conservative all-news TV service patterned on Fox News
Posted June 15, 2010 1:34 pm.
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TORONTO, Ont. – Canada will be getting a new TV news channel believed to be patterned on America’s colourful and very popular right-wing Fox News.
Quebecor Media Inc. said it’s launching Sun TV News, ending months of speculation and anticipation in Ottawa over what had been dubbed “Fox News North.”
Quebecor CEO Pierre Karl Peladeau said Canada’s other national all-news networks CBC News Network and CTV News Channel have had more than 20 year to get it right and have failed.
The network will be led by newly hired Quebecor vice-president Kory Teneycke, a former staff member at the Prime Minister’s Office.
Teneycke calls current Canadian TV news “narrow, complacent and politically correct,” vowing Sun TV News will be different, mixing hard news reporting during the day and “straight talk” opinion journalism at night.
Peladeau has already applied to the federal broadcast regulator for an all-news, English-language television licence after a year of personal lobbying in Ottawa.
The application is reported to be for a first tier designation, meaning all cable subscribers would get the channel whether they want it or not.
