CANADIAN passport now a MUST for aspiring female soccer newscasters

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  1. huhe888

    huhe888 Red Card

    Oct 3, 2007
    If you are a young, hard-working Canadian female sports anchor/reporter and you have an interest in international soccer, you can literally punch your own ticket to a job in Toronto if you don't have any "red flag" baggage (i.e. mistreating co-workers at multiple companies or mispronouncing multiple names in less than 5 minutes) with you.

    Why?

    1. The CRTC 30% Canadian content rule on all soccer-centric digital TV networks in Canada practically guarantees that each network will produce a nightly soccer-centric newscast.

    2. Because the cost of licensing a soccer newscast produced in Canada is only about one-third the cost of producing a soccer newscast in the U.S., a U.S. English-language soccer-centric TV network will license a soccer newscast from Canada instead of producing its own newscast.

    FOX Soccer (and its precessor FOX Sports World) had been licensing a soccer-centric newscast from Shaw Media's CKND-TV in Winnipeg, Manitoba since October 1, 2002 (the now-defunct FOX Sports World Canada originated from the facility of CKND-TV when it was launched on October 1, 2001). That particular program licence will end on August 31. Starting September 1, FOX Soccer will licence the U.S. rights to a new soccer-centric newscast from Rogers Sportsnet in Toronto, Ontario.

    Now that beIN SPORT LLC has decided to launch beIN SPORT 1 Canada with a Canadian media partner (presumably TeleLatino Network, which is more than willing to sell an equity stake and re-brand EuroWorld Sport), any English-language nightly soccer-centric newscast that will air on beIN SPORT 1 USA will likely be produced in Toronto so that it can air on both beIN SPORT 1 USA and beIN SPORT 1 Canada.
     

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