Has anyone tried to stream services from Canada w/ Sat Dishes becoming a thing of the past in US.

[Pooka]

Ive been subscribing to Bell for close to 20 years and use a Broker. Im not all that up on streaming but it appears that is the way television will be handled by Directv, Dish and the others. Has anyone switched to streaming, using a VPN and Canadian address via a Broker or without a broker ?

 

[Juan]

You can get CBC and CTV pretty easily...I don't know about cable channels

 

[NYDutch]

You might find this article useful:

https://www.hp.com/ca-en/shop/offer.aspx?p=watch-tv-without-cable-canada

 

[telstar_1]

Historically, multichannel services have been siloed by nation. Canada in particular has sought to exclude much of US programming in support of its cultural integrity and protection of native production. Thus unless near enough to border to receive over-the air, there has been greatly restricted access such as on cable & sat. In the satellite age, Canadians have sought to circumvent restrictions by reporting a US address or by "pirating" signal. There has also been, albeit smaller, an interest in the US in getting Canadian content, with similar means employed. My question is whether (and to what extent) Canadian content is (officially) restricted in the US. I'm guessing a lot of it would simply come down to they don't have permissions to market content outside country, and not restrictions coming from our gov't in the way they do up north. I would assume streaming comes under these same (old) restrictions, and that to get Canadian TV unrestricted one would need to both report a Canadian residence and to not report an IP address flagging as outside country (and vice-versa for the reverse).

What would be helpful to me would be a rundown on the major streamers to both countries as to how much of their US-available content is (officially) made available in Canada (and/or elsewhere), and vice-versa. Are any completely unrestricted?

 

[Juan]

Historically, multichannel services have been siloed by nation. Canada in particular has sought to exclude much of US programming in support of its cultural integrity and protection of native production. Thus unless near enough to border to receive over-the air, there has been greatly restricted access such as on cable & sat. In the satellite age, Canadians have sought to circumvent restrictions by reporting a US address or by "pirating" signal. There has also been, albeit smaller, an interest in the US in getting Canadian content, with similar means employed. My question is whether (and to what extent) Canadian content is (officially) restricted in the US. I'm guessing a lot of it would simply come down to they don't have permissions to market content outside country, and not restrictions coming from our gov't in the way they do up north. I would assume streaming comes under these same (old) restrictions, and that to get Canadian TV unrestricted one would need to both report a Canadian residence and to not report an IP address flagging as outside country (and vice-versa for the reverse).

What would be helpful to me would be a rundown on the major streamers to both countries as to how much of their US-available content is (officially) made available in Canada (and/or elsewhere), and vice-versa. Are any completely unrestricted?

Not really...atleast on the border..American stations sell advertising for Canadian viewers and vice versa....yes they require Canadian stations to carry x amount of Canadian programming but most Canadian cable and satellite companies carry American TV stations and on the border American cable companies carry Canadian stations...its been that way for years and years

KXMD was carried by cable systems across neighboring Saskatchewan, even operating a sales office in Saskatoon, as did KUMV and Great Falls ABC station KFBB-TV.

Until satellite delivery took out microwave distribution

 

[KyL416]

Canada in particular has sought to exclude much of US programming in support of its cultural integrity and protection of native production.

That hasn't been the case in ages. The CRTC rules are now so lax that stations can get away with using reruns of Degrassi, Corner Gas, Schitts Creek, Just for Laughs, Comedy Now or Cash Cab in the morning to meet their CanCon quotas, and the rest of the day most of the schedule is American programming.

There are times where the Canadian networks air primetime programming before the USA, especially on the Atlantic stations where they have to air news at 11pm AT/10pm ET, so the 10pm ET show airs at 8pm AT/7pm ET. They also have 7pm ET hour premieres in the rest of the country for some shows if there's a schedule conflict, which CTV did for Bob <3 Abishola and Night Court and Citytv did for Next Level Chef, Hell's Kitchen and Law & Order. Global used to do it too for The Simpsons before it moved to Citytv and CHCH.

My question is whether (and to what extent) Canadian content is (officially) restricted in the US. I'm guessing a lot of it would simply come down to they don't have permissions to market content outside country, and not restrictions coming from our gov't in the way they do up north.

If you're talking about the official linear streams and full episodes on CBC Gem, CTVgo, Global, Citytv, pretty much everything except news streams are georestricted to Canadian IP addresses. It's more of a rights issue since a lot of CBC and CTV originals are now licensed by US networks like CW, Hallmark, Ovation and Up and various SVOD services that specialize in Canadian, British, Australian and New Zealand imports.


For Canadian channels via streaming. On their official apps, the streams for CTV and Global require a pay TV login, the streams for CBC TV and Citytv are available for free, but unfortunately last week Rogers stripped CBC of the streaming rights to the NHL playoffs. CBC News Network is available with a premium Gem subscription. TSN and Sportsnet also have their own direct to consumer subscription services.

If you have a Canadian credit card and access to a VPN that isn't blacklisted, you can try getting FuboTV Canada which has the CBC and Corus owned channels. If you can access Prime Video Canada you can add Citytv+ which will also give you Omni and FX Canada and StackTV which will give you most of the Corus owned channels including Global.

If you're French Canadian, it's a lot easier as Radio-Canada, Noovo, TVA and Tele-Quebec all stream online for free without a pay TV login. In Radio-Canada's case they also have international streams that simulcast the news and any entertainment shows they can stream worldwide.