Canadian Programming

I can’t find the full report anywhere, but the Writers’ Guild of Canada, the Directors’ Guild, AFTRA and other Canadian entertainment advocates co-commissioned a study to demonstrate that Canadian programming can make money for broadcasters. (This ties in with the WGC’s presentation before the CRTC today, arguing in support of the proposed rules that would require parity in spending on foreign and domestic shows.) The summary is a little vague because, as it says, the broadcasters don’t actually release much data on how much money they are or aren’t making. But this makes some sense: