Chris Berube
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That is kind of shocking to me because, like, I grew up watching Canadian TV.
99% Invisible
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For example, you could watch Who Wants to Be a Millionaire on CTV or something like that on a Canadian channel.
99% Invisible
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I watched a ton of American shows growing up.
99% Invisible
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So, like, I find it shocking that half of the stuff they were playing was Canadian.
99% Invisible
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There's a lot of news broadcasts that they do in sports.
99% Invisible
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If every two hours you have a 60-minute news broadcast, you can play whatever American content you want.
99% Invisible
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So that also explains why there's so much news on Canadian TV.
99% Invisible
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Another way that they get to this 50 percent mark is by using like spinoffs or franchises of non-Canadian TV shows.
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Canada does this shamelessly all of the time.
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And it seems to be relatively popular, at least.