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Global's Early Broadcasts in Canada

My fellow Canuks and Americanuks;

I receive Global through Cable in Saskatchewan. I get their Global Edmonton broadcasts. During the last two weeks that Global has been broadcasting Heroes one day early, all the listings I have access to have said that it was not broadcast then. Having not been able to see myself because I was away from home and TV during both Sunday and Monday night, I don't know if it is being broadcast here early or not.

I know that it is being broadcast at least somewhere early by Global because I have seen screenshots of content with the Global TV 'bug' (Station ID Icon they put in the corner of the screen) before Mondays broadcast as proof. I was wondering if I was able to catch it a day early or if there are other Global locations that supposedly aren't broadcasting it early.

Yours;

--WolvenSpectre 23:06, 4 March 2007 (EST)

• It looks like it airs on Global Ontario. Not sure about any of the others. (Admin 23:38, 4 March 2007 (EST))

• Global Vancouver airs Heroes a day early. Infact, I'm watching it right now this Sunday, March 4th at 9:29 PM (PST). Great episode going on, even halfway through. Anyways, back to subject on hand, it's Global Vancouver and Ontario that's airing Heroes early (that I know of, maybe more affiliates). --Aero Zeppelin 00:31, 5 March 2007 (EST)
  • Looks like Global decided to clear it up on the page with the video stream. It says it is broadcast on Monday in Alberta. That means here in the "Land of Living Skies" too (oh, how I hate that moniker for Saskatchewan).--WolvenSpectre 07:18, 5 March 2007 (EST)

So what that it airs in Canada

When its aired its aired, write the info here. And if the US idiots don't want to be spoiled well don't read it before you've seen it.--IceHero 08:01, 5 March 2007 (EST)

• The spoiler policy is designed to benefit everyone -- since the US and Canada are supposed to be on the same schedule. We'd do the same thing if it aired Sunday night in New York only, and I'd sure hope we'd do the same thing if it aired on Sunday night in the US but not Canada. It's not a matter of "US idiots" vs. Canadians (particularly since it hasn't even aired all over Canada) ... thanks to P2P, anyone can have seen it already. It's a matter of having a bright line for when spoilers cease to be spoilers. People can't effectively avoid being spoiled except by avoiding the entire site, and that's not fair. If you are just dying to write new articles from the episode, I'd suggest writing them offline in a text editor and uploading them tonight.--Hardvice (talk) 08:34, 5 March 2007 (EST)
• We'll be having respect for our viewers and users -- the episode will be considered a spoiler until it is widely aired. — RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 08:37, 5 March 2007 (EST)
• This is one of the reasons I thought that maybe it would have been better to have the posts for episodes that air early up here then bring them across after the airing. They are already marked as spoilers. Then in retrospect, I thought about the points the admins made, and took into consideration that this means that they would have to have a spoilers version of every article and section in case someone wanted to alter them. Then they would have to lock down the originals, make a whole new set of reference links, then after one day copy them to the main articles. Thats allot of work for just one day.

  That doesn't take into account that for that day people could not alter the main documents with non-spoiler material without going into the spoilers section defeating the whole purpose of the section. This doesn't include people who have direct bookmarks that go to the webpages of the main articles.

  I know many of us Canadian Fans are getting the 2cd and 3rd class treatment, but I have found this community to be more than accepting of us so I think we can put up with a little inconvenience. You wouldn't like it if somebody spoiled the best parts of an episode you had to watch on tape, so give them that same respect and then we can all do the "ooh ooh ooh did you see when he...(censored "Parasite" Scene that you HAVE to talk about at 10pm)".--WolvenSpectre 13:54, 5 March 2007 (EST)

  • Well said. I would also add, as I stated above, that I hope we would do things the same way if part of the U.S. decided to air things a day earlier. As I see it, it's not a U.S. vs. Canada issue at all ... it's a spoiler vs. non-spoiler issue.--Hardvice (talk) 13:57, 5 March 2007 (EST)
    • It wasn't done when Run! was broadcast almost a week late in Utah. ;)
      • Actually I didn't mind cause I got to see what I missed, and I read spoilers anyway. -Level 14:07, 5 March 2007 (EST)
        • if its a spoiler till most people see it, when exactly does heroes air in china or india? shouldn't it remain a spoiler till these two billion people have had the opportunity to see it JD 00:52, 6 March 2007 (EST)