“We’re thrilled to bring television programming to the iTunes Store in Canada in time for the holiday season,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes, in the press release. “We’re off to a great start with hit shows from CBC, CTV, Comedy Central and MTV Networks, along with the best of classic and current NHL action.”
Television shows purchased and downloaded from the iTunes Store can be viewed on a PC or Mac, iPod nano with video, fifth generation iPod, iPod classic or on a widescreen TV with Apple TV. Television programming on the iTunes Store in Canada includes:
• CBC’s comedy programs “Little Mosque on the Prairie” and “The Rick Mercer Report,” reality programming “No Opportunity Wasted” and “Dragon’s Den”
• CTV’s smash hit comedy “Corner Gas,” dramas “Instant Star,” “Degrassi: The Next Generation” and “Robson Arms”
• Comedy Central’s “Drawn Together,” “The Sarah Silverman Program” and Emmy and Peabody Award-winning “South Park”
• MTV Networks programs “Avatar: The Last Airbender” and “The Hills”
• NHL Games of the Year, including top NHL games in their entirety for the 2007-2008 season, as well as Stanley Cup Classics, a five-game bundle of great Stanley Cup Final games.
iTunes 7 for Mac and Windows includes the iTunes Store and is available as a free download from http://www.itunes.ca. Purchase and download of songs and videos from the iTunes Store requires a valid credit card from a financial institution in the country of purchase. Television shows are available in the US, UK and Canada only, and video availability varies by country. TV shows from the iTunes Store are downloaded in near-DVD quality at a resolution of 640×480 (up to 480, depending on the aspect ratio) and can be viewed on a Mac or PC, iPod nano with video, fifth generation iPod, iPod classic or on a widescreen TV with Apple TV.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “coolfactor” for the heads up.]
Buster:
And, “Who’s IED Is It Anyway?”,
“The Stepford Harem”,
“Kid Goat Nation”,
“Project Runaway”,
“Murder, She Wrote and Then Was Stoned to Death for Impropriety”,
“Desperate Housewives” (no change),
“How I Melt Your Mother”,
“Criminal Mines”,
and “Cuban Prison Break”.
If, as you said, ‘mccannic’, “this is an issue of the Canadian rights holders of the US content – Global, CTV , etc either not controlling the online component or not working out a deal with Apple,” that has little or nothing to do with the CRTC. The CRTC has no say in who owns a given program. The “Comedy Central” stuff is not Canadian Content eligible and is aired here by CTV through it’s “Comedy Channel”, and it is there on iTunes, so obviously it is, as I stated before and you somewhat reiterated, just a matter of the copyright holder working out a deal with Apple.
Incidentally Global does not appear to have any content on the store at present.
Again, no content in French – for second class citizens that we are …
Why is it cheaper than in US? CAN$1.99 per show vs. US$1.99. Lucky Canadians!
Well, no current NHL games– just the “Classics”. It would be nice to get a few games from THIS season, burn to disc and send to my brother who’s teaching in Korea to keep him up to date.
“Television shows are available in the US, UK and Canada only, and video availability varies by country. TV shows from the iTunes Store are downloaded in near-DVD quality at a resolution of 640×480 (up to 480, depending on the aspect ratio) and can be viewed on a Mac or PC, iPod nano with video, fifth generation iPod, iPod classic or on a widescreen TV with Apple TV.”
Um, I think they forgot to mention iPod touch, if not the iPhone as well. Good stuff though, it’s about time.
Wow those choices REALLY suck. Man, how long so we have waiting for some kind of content and they give us this. You couldn’t pay me to download this stuff (exept maybe for the Hockey). I guess it back to the bittorents as Its my ONLY Option OR downloading it from my TIVO.
Come on, give us some choice here. I really hate the CRTC or whoever delays this crap. More about politics than actual user content.
GizmoDan: The Canadian dollar surpassed the US dollar in value some time ago and reached as much as US $1.10. It’s currently about on par with the USD.
WTF? where’s my Beachcombers, King of Kensington, DaVinci, and Friendly Giant epis??? Oh, and while you’re at it throw in Pol Martin’s cooking shows, Chez Helene, and Jim Perry’s game shows. Whew, my Xmas will be booked
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Now Apple, how about launching TV shows on the Australian iTunes Store site?
ABC (i.e. Australian Broadcasting Corporation – our public TV, Radio and Web broadcaster) already offers many of its quality shows as iPod compatible downloads from its website ABC TV
My favourites are At the Movies, Gardening Australia and Four Corners.
“Regarding Canadian Content restrictions, I don’t know that the CRTC has much say in what an internet outlet can sell, at least at this point.”
That would be desperately wrong. It is the CRTC who has stood in the way this far, disallowing sales and access to US content. While I am somewhat glad to see the door finally opening a crack, on our radio/TV stations they already mandate 60% Canadian content and are the force behind internet blocking of US content. Of course this is morally touted as supporting Canadian content but the reality is that the distributors simply use it to gain a captive audience with no other options. The end result becomes censorship, plain and simple, with mostly lame content. Canadians can’t just watch a foreign channel or tune into a foreign satellite, gosh no, that would be piracy and therefore “illegal”. Even the BBC is a rebroadcast with Canadian ads.
Brau, on what do you base your assertions about the CRTC? I am basing mine on a CRTC press release entitled, “CRTC Won’t Regulate the Internet” in which it is stated that “the Commission does not believe that regulation of the new media would further the objectives of the Broadcasting Act.” The CRTC Chairperson further added that “our message is clear. We are not regulating any portion of the Internet.” They may have changed their position, but I have not seen anything to support that conclusion. Have you?
Ever heard of “DoubleTalk”? This statement only replies to suggestions of ISP based filtering/censorship. One doesn’t have to “regulate the internet” to regulate the content being distributed on it. The CRTC simply applies the Canadian Broadcasting Act upon anyone who chooses to broadcast, in any medium, and removes your license to do so if you contravene their content rules. They also pressure US broadcasters, via the RIAA, to comply. The end result is the same.
If there wasn’t somebody slamming the door shut, no broadcaster on earth would deny internet hits (revenue) by shutting out people or content from other countries.
Macangus you are correct.
It is not the CRTC. Has nothing to do with the CRTC.
In most cases Apple wants to buy direct, not through a middleman. The deals negotiated with the Canadian Networks – Global and CTV are exclusive unlike in the US where there can be multiple distribution models from the same distributor. When these current contracts lapse here, expect to see the US producers negotiate the same or similar terms as our neighbors to the south. In the meantime Apple will not likely participate in negotiations with CTV and Global though. It’s not their style…
At least it’s a start, and I’m so happy we finally have something!
Point well taken, ‘makemineamac’. I’m simply saying that, although the CRTC would I’m sure like to “rule the roost” completely where all media of any form in Canada is concerned, they are not quite at that level of control over Apple’s iTunes store in Canada yet. People can make all the assertions about the CRTC’s draconian influence that they want, and in many cases it’s warranted, but in this case no one has offered proof. The mere lack of programming on the iTunes store is not evidence enough.
I agree. They don’t. That’s why I said you’re right.
You’ll see there will be more content coming. As I said though, it’s a start at least.
So when is this gonna happen in Europe?
You bastards!
still no movie ? umm..
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