Rise of the Internet Crazies

Social media has magnified, concentrated, and refined the fine art of being a complete gibbering loon. Now that politicians have realized its full potential for demagoguery, political discourse is destined to become ever-more unhinged.

Broadcast TV: Not Dead Yet!

Though buffeted by intense competition with internet giants for eyes and revenue, traditional broadcast TV isn’t going extinct anytime soon. Though it may be in decline, its decline is slowing and there are good arguments that it will soon taper off.

Conquered By Netflix

Netflix has taken over the Canadian market for online video streaming. Here is some of the CRTC’s data to show how Netflix-crazy the country has become.

Canadian Mobile Internet Giants

The CRTC has deplatformed Russian state TV channel RT and RT France, as of today. More specifically, it will prohibit Canadian TV broadcasters from carrying it[1]. Three major players in Canadian TV – Bell, Rogers and Shaw – already removed RT on their own volition back in late February[2]. While RT, being obvious Kremlin propaganda,

Television Market Concentration

The bulk of the TV market in Canada is dominated by a small handful of big corporations. This is not likely surprising, but here are some data to put this into clearer focus. The charts below come from the CRTC’s data, though some of this data was originally compiled by an organization called Numeris. Starting

Canadian TV Viewing by the Numbers

Okay, so now that we have noticed how much time Canadians spend on TV per day, let’s dig into the data a bit deeper and look at how viewership breaks down by age, genre watched, and what percentage of Canadian TV programming are actually Canadian productions. The data below all comes from the CRTC[1], namely

The Modern Lotus Eaters

When you read myth or fiction, only go for the good stuff. One of the oldest entries into the Western canon, Homer’s Odyssey, is a good read any day for any reason. Like most of the Western literary classics, it isn’t as mainstream as it once was. Though it is still probably better known than