From my experience, after I bought the TV, I just paid monthly to Bell which was a telecommunication company in my country (Canada), and they connected a receiver (a black box) to my TV which allowed me to watch the channels. No antenna or cable box involved. So I’m just confused about how you can watch Network and Cable after you buy a TV.
Also, on smart TVs, Network and Cable channels have their streaming apps. We know they have to follow governmental rules (no nudity or profanity, etc.) due to the way they broadcast their content. But now that they are streaming their content on their apps, why do they still have to follow these rules? Because streaming services like Netflix don’t have to follow these rules.
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In this example, Bell is your cable company.
Back in the day, cable TV was provided by a cable TV provider and telephone was provided by a phone provider. In most areas of Canada that would have been Bell for phone and Rogers for cable. Both of these companies had actual cables installed on top of telephone poles that ran from their central systems into everyone’s homes.
So, the cable company ran one kind of wire that carried TV signals and the phone company ran another kind of wire that carried phone signals.
Over time, both of those systems have gone digital so the actual kind of cable that’s attached to your home mattered less and less and eventually both phone and cable service companies switched to providing this service over a fiber cable. But that’s not really important to this question.
Today what Bell is providing to you is cable TV, the box they have you connect to your TV is your cable box.
Connected with all of this is that the “over the air” networks also transitioned from the old fashioned analog signal to a more modern digital one.
In Canada the broadcast networks are CTV, Global and CBC. In most of Canada we can also pickup the major American networks of ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS and FOX. Not everywhere can access everything though, where I live (Nova Scotia) we are to far away to get the American Networks on broadcast.
But they are all included in a cable package, both the major American networks and the Canadian equivalents.
You’re correct that the rules all change when you are talking about streaming, broadcast and cable. In general CTV could choose to show nudity on their CTV app and it would not be against the rules. But in general CTV chooses not to do this because it’s against the brand image that they want to cultivate.
But there’s ways around this. CTV’s parent company is the same company that owns Bell (BCE). BCE also owns Crave and Crave shows a lot of HBO content. So if CTV wanted to make a show with nudity involved they would simply have it shown on Crave and not the CTV app.
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