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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)
          • It doesn't air concurrently in the U.S. and China. It does (or is supposed to) air concurrently in the U.S. and Canada. You're comparing apples to pomegranates. Don't be obtuse.--Hardvice (talk) 00:57, 6 March 2007 (EST)
          • I think we're getting a little petty here. You get the gist of what the admins of this site are saying, so try to refrain from being immature. Point being is that the show is filmed in the US, distributed by a US television company. Its designated audience is in the majority American, so it's only fair to assume that North America is what is to be assumed for when something is a spoiler or not. British television rarely makes it to the states, you don't hear me going on any sites like this for Dr. Who. Again, it's a matter of practicality and who the target audience is for the show and this site.--Baldbobbo 00:58, 6 March 2007 (EST)
          • I'll leave the pointing out the irony and problems with the above statement, and that previous discussions with Admin we discussed the voluntary self regulation that happens for one day, and if it doesn't work the Admins will probably just lock down the wiki for a day, which I think would be bad for the community and HeroesWiki.

            Admin also stated, and I assume the offer still stands, he offered to help set up a wiki for those fans in locations who are getting the show late. Also I think the community would probably not mind trading posting information after they are no longer spoilers for that new location. Think CSI and CSI:Miami only more like HeroesWiki:Japan.--WolvenSpectre 07:45, 6 March 2007 (EST)

  • On another note... Australia is still MANY episodes behind us...--Riddler 01:03, 6 March 2007 (EST)
    • According to what I have read and scene, Australia's broadcast companies are the ones that keep it that way. They wait purposefully for content price reductions and charge such inflated ad space on shows for how old they are it could be cheaper for the show distributors to press DVDs, selling their own ads, and mass mail them so long as the show is in positive ratings.--WolvenSpectre 07:51, 6 March 2007 (EST)

Season One DvD

Anybody know anything about when season one is gonna be released? Benoni 02:49, 24 March 2007 (EDT)