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Originally Posted by Burning Down
And did you know that the CRTC (basically our equivalent to the FCC) requires that the daily playlist of Canadian radio stations contains 30% Canadian content? That's why so many Canadian bands are popular here only - because they're being played non-stop on the radio.
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Yeah, I touched on that a bit in the first post. 30% is quite a huge amount if you think about it. The local rock station around here usually fills that requirement by playing the exact same bands every day: Rush, The Tragically Hip, BTO/The Guess Who, Neil Young, and *shudder* Nickelback. Kind of defeats the whole give-new-Canadian-bands-exposure thing, doesn't it?