Dear Robert:
On Saturday evening your English television network broadcast the first in a series of Hollywood movies in the time slot which CBC has allocated to Hockey Night in Canada for several decades. Looking forward as far as your web site projects titles, we see a series of foreign movies, among them: The Princess Diaries, Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom, Monsters Inc., and Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade.
In the last month of your mandate as CBC President, we find it highly regrettable that you would preside over a scheduling change that will have the effect of tripling foreign content in prime time -- reducing Canadian content on CBC Television's prime time schedule to a level last seen in the 1980s.
Instead of this legacy for your Presidency, we propose that you reconsider, and maintain Canadian programming on Saturday evenings. We note, for example, that you could purchase the rights to a wide variety of Saturday evening hockey games from all parts of Canada. Among them are the following Canadian Hockey League games, which along with several others, are scheduled each Saturday evening:
October 23rd: Drummondville at PEI
October 30th: Rouyn-Noranda at Quebec
November 6th: Mississauga at Sarnia
November 13th: Kingston at Barrie
November 20th: Ottawa at Owen Sound
November 27th: Lethbridge at Moose Jaw
December 4th: Vancouver at Kelowna
December 11th: Calgary at Prince Albert
December 18th: Kamloops at Prince George
We recommend that CBC offer Canadian content in place of Hollywood movies for the duration of the current NHL dispute.
Yours sincerely,
Ian Morrison
Spokesperson