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ARGHHH What's with this, another ALL SOCCER CHANNEL?

	Phil from Winnipeg Responses To This Message: Phil from Winnipeg	ARGHHH What's with this, another ALL SOCCER CHANNEL? Friday, 5 August 2005, at 5:17 p.m. US Eastern Time Can you believe this,take a look at the URL below. The CRTC has approved yet ANOTHER ALL-Soccer channel in Canada. What gives? Fox Sports World Canada has a hard enough time filling up their schedule. http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Decisions/2005/db2005-380.htm

	Phil from Winnipeg In Response To: Phil from Winnipeg Responses To This Message: Rob de Santos	Re: ARGHHH What's with this, another ALL SOCCER CHANNEL? Friday, 5 August 2005, at 5:21 p.m. US Eastern Time Just a follow-up, it appears that this new channel is non other than "Gol TV Canada" http://www.goltvcanada.com/ Okay, Canada is just NOT a large enough market for both Gol-TV and Fox Sports World Canada both in the soccer business. FSWC REALLY REALLY has to start picking up enormous amounts of other non-soccer related programming if it doesn't want to be relagated to even more obscurity than it already is! http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Decisions/2005/db2005-380.htm

	Rob de Santos In Response To: Phil from Winnipeg	Re: ARGHHH What's with this, another ALL SOCCER CHANNEL? Friday, 5 August 2005, at 5:48 p.m. US Eastern Time > it appears that this new channel is non other than "Gol TV > Canada" Yes, I saw the announcement elsewhere. Bottom line: there is a saturation market for soccer. So some channel(s) won't survive in the format. Footy benefits on FSWC because they have time to fill. > Okay, Canada is just NOT a large enough > market for both Gol-TV and Fox Sports World Canada both in the soccer business. FSWC > REALLY REALLY has to start picking up enormous amounts of other non-soccer related > programming if it doesn't want to be relagated to even more obscurity than it > already is! Well, I don't know. FSWC is (apparently) profitable and among the more successful of the "diginets". That said, their hourly viewership is in the 10k range. -Rob de Santos AFANA Chairman AFANA Blog

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