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'''Streethouse''' is a small [[village]] to the east of [[Wakefield]], the south of [[Normanton, West Yorkshire|Normanton]] and the west of [[Pontefract]] in [[West Yorkshire]]. Formerly a mining village, Streethouse retains a train station on the line between [[Wakefield]] and [[Pontefract]] and a miners' club. Unemployment and deprivation prompted several locals to leave and there have been periods when much of the housing has been uninhabited. Streethouse suffers from similar problems to [[Fitzwilliam, West Yorkshire|Fitzwilliam]] and [[Grimethorpe]], though on a lesser scale.
I wouldn't, of course, put this in the article, since it's just a theory, but since this is a ''talk'' page, for the heck of it here's my own personal prediction of what's going to come out of the CHUM/BGM merger:
A lot of crime is targeted at those who move into the village who do not have a history there. The police are unable to do anything as most people are related and will not report members of their family.
*Potential buyers for the [[A-Channel]] stations are limited; there aren't very many Canadian media companies left with the kind of scale and market cap needed to pull it off. I can see only four viable possibilities: [[Rogers Communications|Rogers]], [[Quebecor]], [[Standard Broadcasting|Standard]] or [[Newcap Broadcasting|Newcap]]. Gawd only knows what Newcap or Standard could actually ''do'' with them; Rogers would probably align them with [[OMNI Television]] and Quebecor would probably align them with [[CKXT-TV|Sun TV]].
*Within a year or two, BGM will take CHUM's AM radio stations and try for a national radio sports network again; dollars to donuts it gets branded as [[TSN]]. Is Canada a large enough market to support separate BGM and Rogers radio sports networks? Probably not, but it's equally hard to imagine who'd blink first.
*[[MTV Canada]] will be either sold or rebranded again; BGM doesn't need it anymore if it's got the Much family. Either that or they'll ''rebrand'' Much as MTV, though that would be a pretty stupid thing to do. But since Much is the one with the better cable distribution and the nationally-recognized personalities, there's no chance in hell of them keeping the current MTV channel and dumping Much.
*A far-fetched but intriguing scenario: could [[A-Channel]] + [[Access Alberta]] + [[CKX-TV|CKX]] + [[Atlantic Satellite Network|ASN]] potentially form the basis for a fledgling third national commercial network?
In other words Streethouse, a village of no fewer than 200 houses is full of dirty thieving inbreds. Remarkably, there are only 5 families within those 200 houses - its quite scary what freakish little creatures they manage to produce. We are talking seriously gimpy plonkers with a whole host of odd looking features and delinquency of epidemic proportions. Luckily the delightful people of Streethouse have access to a state-of-the-art chip shop, the only disadvantage being that it is a three minute walk away from most houses. In addition, when it rains the giant puddle provides a free bathing area, its just a shame it isn't in the middle of the road. The people of Streethouse are easily recognisable from quite a distance, usually the mucky white tracksuit bottoms, stripey Ben Sherman jumpers and Burberry cap's give them away, not to mention the manure-like smell. It is estimated that the average Streethouse villager has between none and three bath's per year, consumes between six and seven hundred tonnes of chips and approximately four hundred gallons of special brew per quarter. They go through roughly 50 pairs of stolen white trainers per year and they don't understand English - the chances of this being read by one of them is estimated to be about sixteen billion to one. All in all, Streethouse is without doubt one of the most dangerous places in the Northern hemisphere. Make sure you avoid at all costs!!
Of course, as I've already noted, this is all just personal speculation, not anything I'd be prepared to source and/or verify. Anybody else have some crazy ideas about this? [[User:Bearcat|Bearcat]] 23:34, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
*I know you're just writing theoretically but I highly expect CTV will keep ASN and merge it into City in one form or another. My crazy guess for the rest (not that we ''should'' be doing this on an article talk page):
**CKX supplants CKY as Brandon's CTV affiliate, with [[CHMI|Citytv Winnipeg]] brought in on cable.
**Some non-profit buys Access, a la [[CKUA]] (if it isn't CKUA itself). Barring that, Rogers. Heck, there are university courses about ''[[The Simpsons]]''... surely they could fit Access into some sort of OMNI format.
**Quebecor/SunTV buys [[CIVI-TV|CIVI]].
**Global buys the rest, agreeing to pull CKVR from the Toronto market, and flipping the applicable [[CIII|Global Toronto]] rebroads to SunTV, which suddenly has enough purchasing clout to become semi-watchable(!). Of course, Quebecor could buy the bunch themselves and put them in parallel with CKXT, although I think they're having enough trouble as it is filling up ''one'' schedule...
:More realistically, [[Ivan Fecan]]'s being quoted by CP as suggesting they'll be sold as a bunch, but I don't know if I'd want to see what Quebecor would do with Access. ("Sun TV... fun to watch, except for the mandatory educational stuff!") — <font face="Times New Roman" style="background: #000066;" color="#FFFFFF">stickguy (:^›)—</font> [[user:stickguy|home]] - [[user talk:stickguy|talk]] - 02:26, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
: Well, I can imagine a future owner of Access at least ''trying'' to convince the CRTC to convert it to a commercial license, since as it stands it's in a bit of a weird position as a commercially-owned educational station. No bets on whether the feds would ''go'' for that or not, but I can sure see somebody ''trying'' to turn Access into a conventional station or two. And to be fair to Quebecor, it is pretty hard these days to get very much of a schedule going when you're a lone independent station competing against national broadcasters for program rights; if they had seven or eight stations across the country, they'd probably have an easier time scoring at least ''some'' worthwhile programming. [[User:Bearcat|Bearcat]] 03:13, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
[[Category:Villages in West Yorkshire]]
My two cents before someone blanks this all or whatever...
*I think it's pretty safe to say that one company is going to get the whole lot of whatever they decide to spin off. If I were to guess, I'd say Quebecor, and then we've got another semi-national CHUM-style programming service. Mind you, this will give ''them'' two stations in the GTA, and then we're right back to square one. Whoever buys Access, I agree that it will look like another OMNI - pandering to the masses with a few blocks of educational programs here and there to conform to the license.
*It probably won't happen, but having Newcap buy the block instead would be interesting - their only current TV stations are in Lloydminster, hardly the media capital of Canada. It'd be nice to see a fresh face in Canadian TV.
*Take a good look at ASN's schedule. That's what you'll be seeing on Citytv when this is done.
*I also wonder whether we'll be seeing a rush by BGM and Canwest for new licenses in regions where they only have one station (CH in Manitoba (by buying CKX maybe?) and the Maritimes, City in Montreal, one or both in Saskatchewan) so they can fill out their national coverage. Should be interesting times up ahead... [[User:Kirjtc2|Kirjtc2]] 17:23, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
==CBC==
Not everyone know what the "CBC" stands for in "CBC Television". We are writing for an international audience here. It is worth spelling out for non-Canadian readers. I have tried a different approach that i hope will satisfy Bearcat. [[User:Ground Zero|Ground Zero]] | [[User talk:Ground Zero|t]] 17:30, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
: This makes about as much sense as stating that a reader has to know that [[CBS]] stands for "Columbia Broadcasting System" in order to fully understand [[The CW]]. That is to say, not much sense at all. What's ''centrally'' important to the reader of ''this'' article is that they know that we're talking about CBC Television rather than CBC Radio or CBC Newsworld or CBC Country Canada — if they have a specific reason to learn what the letters "CBC" actually stand for, well, that's why the term was wikilinked in the first place: they can click on the blue link to find out. Clarifying what the initialism stands for is of paramount importance on the CBC's ''own'' articles; it's of at best ''minimal'' importance in an article on ''CHUM''. [[User:Bearcat|Bearcat]] 22:15, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
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