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Censored (again ) by ShawOur September 4, "Labour Day 2004 special" working TV program is webcast below. It was to be broadcast on Saturday Sept. 4. We got notice Sept. 3 that it would not air as it was not suitable. Please have a look and see if you can figure out why Shaw would refuse to broadcast it. If you can, please contact@workingtv.com. We hope to get an explanation from Shaw soon. At this point, your guess is as good as ours. Your Comments  Terminal City article LEAS series working TV #295 Labour Day 2004 special |
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Open RT: 1:19 |
Welcome by host Kaylah Zander and description of segments coming up in the program:
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Strike Report 1 - CEP 1129 vs. Norampac RT: 1:40 |
CEP 1129 President Dave Hart on the 5 month old strike by his members against Norampac in Burnaby:
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Strike Report 2 - USWA vs. Modern Auto Plating RT: 3:40 |
United Steelworkers of America Distrit 3 Director Steve Hunt on the 33 month old strike against Modern Auto Plating in Vancouver:
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Strike Report 3 - CEP 2000 vs. Castlegar Sun RT: 5:59 |
5 year long strike by newspaper workers in the Kootenays in BC's interior, against the Castelgar Sun, originally part of Conrad Black's media empire. They are now producing the Castlegar Citizen, a very successful strike newspaper:
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Promo 1 - working TV / LEAS specials |
30 second promo for the upcoming working TV / LEAS ( Labour Environmental Alliance Society ) series on environmental issues, with hosts David Chudnovsky and Judy Darcy.
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Multi Union Pride RT: 5:26 |
Highlights from the August 01, 2004 Vancouver Pride parade. Activists from several unions got together in the Multi Union Pride committee to participate in the 26th annual event, which drew 150,000.
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Sun Peaks Convergence RT: 7:52 |
Highlights from the August 28 / 29 2004 Sun Peaks Convergence, to protest continuing expansion of the Sun Peaks Resort near Kamloops, B.C. and denial of land rights to the Secwepemc people who own the territory
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Promo 2 - working TV / LEAS specials |
30 second promo for the upcoming working TV / LEAS ( Labour Environmental Alliance Society ) series on environmental issues, with hosts David Chudnovsky and Judy Darcy.
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Close RT: 0:34 |
Show close, with reminders about coming events and next week's program.
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This program produced in part with the generous support of the Your comments |
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What we need is community-based access television without cable companies massaging the message. That is, their participation would be in the distribution. The questioned to be asked is why $haw gets the approximately $5-million dollars from the community channel levy. Consider how much our communities and the arts could benefit with some of the money. It's time citizens realize cable companies (especially $haw) have been robbing them of community television. How is it $haw still has the license for the community channel?  Sid Tan, ICTV ( Independent Community Television )
I just finished watching the web-cast of the censored edition of Working TV that was due to be shown on Shaw Cable 4 today. To be honest, I could find NO reason why Shaw Cable would not show this program. The segment on the Pride Parade cannot be the reason, because the entire Pride Parade was already broadcast by Shaw Cable 4 previously. The segment with clips from the politicians cannot be the reason, because all have been on TV regularly in the past. So, the only reason for not showing this Labour Day Special can only be because of the deep-seated anti-union sentiments of the management of Shaw Cable. That is the real common thread! Don Allen, Retired HEU Member
Hi Julius, Great show! Your daughter ( host Kaylah Zander ) is very poised and professional without losing her youthful presentation - please pass on my congrats to her. I'll bet it is the Castlegar success story that SHAW won't show. Gawd forbid the workers with community help should triumph Penny Parry
Why WOULD Shaw transmit this "unbalanced" program? It suggests there are reasons for strikes other than worker greed. It interviews lots of NDP and labour activists -- but fails to interview all the many Liberal MLAs who visit strike lines and participate in the pride parade. It describes union efforts to improve quality of life for all, including environmental issues. It even gives times and dates of worker events where people might learn more about the issues. This information is downright dangerous. Thank goodness Shaw is on guard. Frank Shaw
From Terminal City Weekly, September 10-16, 2004, p. 7 ("Shaw the Censor" in front page banner) Cabled: Shaw censors community programme by Sean Condon Shaw TV cancelled a special Labour Day episode of the community show working TV without any explanation, leaving the shows producer to believe the motive was political. The cancellation is the second time in a year that Shaw has cut a working TV show without giving a reason. "Its pretty obvious what [Shaw] is up to. They want to get rid of me, but Im not going away. Theyre wasting their time," says Julius Fisher, producer of working TV. "In the past [the cable company] has given me a warning and then I can change it. They got the show at 2:25 on Friday afternoon and it was supposed to air at 3:30 on Saturday. In that 25 hours, we could have fixed some little mistake." working TV is a labour-focused program that has been airing on community television for over ten years. The show was cut by Shaw, along with all community programs, after the Calgary-based cable company swapped ownership rights with Rogers in 2000. working TV was only brought back on air after sustained political pressure forced Shaw to bring back some community programming. The cancelled Labour Day special is available online at workingtv.com. The show had segments on three strike reports in British Columbia, a piece on the Vancouver Pride parade and a story on the recent Sun Peaks convergence. As far as Fisher can tell, the only consistency between the show that was cancelled last year and this one is a short clip of current federal NDP leader Jack Layton. A Shaw TV executive would not go on record about the reasons for the cancellation and would only say that Fisher had not complied with the stations rule that he submit his program 14 business days before broadcast. The three-week buffer is supposed to help check and fix any potential legal problems. But Fisher says this is an exceptional rule that he has never adhered to. "Its hard to be newsy with a 14 business day [submission] rule," says Fisher. "Yes, you can do programming that way, but its a different kind of programming and its a bit stale." It is also a rule that is not consistent with other community programs. Sid Tan, who is a founding member of the Independent Community Television Co-operative which broadcasts three shows on ShawTV 4, says his show only has a seven-day submission requirement. He says Shaw is trying to create tension among different producers while it destroys community programming. "This is a company that has taken the community out of community television," says Tan. Tan says Shaw has given working TV a particularly hard time because of its political stance. No word on whether the Labour Day show will eventually air as Fisher and the community wait for an explanation. |
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