Board Thread:Question of the Month/@comment-1272757-20140203044408/@comment-26567650-20140203205128

The NJerseyan wrote: SonicTheHedgehogDude wrote: It was fun to watch. The only problem is I live in Canada, which I must watch on CTV instead of Fox because of sim-subbing rights. My TV was bombarded with Bell and CTV adverts 4 hours straight and cut off the trophy ceremony in favor for MasterChef Canada. So yeah... STHDude... I don't know why CTV doesn't show you the Super Bowl ads, but I just read that many Canadians, just like you, are acctually desperate to show Super Bowl Ads on CTV than just watching the Canadian Ads (I'm sorry but that's true). Plus, I found the video [http://youtu.be/7jqHAbTSse4 where they present the trophy. Click it before its gone... I guess...] CTV doesn't show the American adverts because of "Simultaneous substitution". It's a practice requiring Canadian networks to distribute the signal of a local or regional over-the-air station in place of the signal of a foreign or nonlocal television station, when the two stations are broadcasting identical programming simultaneously. Obviously CTV is trying to keep ad money here in Canada however the majority of the ads are about Bell or CTV and who get's the ad money? That's CTV. Another practice took the loophole again.

And that story about "Canadians bigger fans of Super Bowl commercials than game itself" is unfortunately true. We have been blocked out of the U.S. commercials for years and you are correct - we are desperate to show the U.S. commercials.