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YTV... is it really doing it for the kids?

Last Saturday night I was sitting at home, tired to go out due to a long day of work, and my cousin's 8-year old was sleeping over.

Flipping through the channels, we came across an airing of THE KARATE KID at 9pm.

My nephew was shocked to tell me that he had never heard of, or seen such a film.
A couple of hours later, he was entranced.

But that's when things fell apart, right during the climax of the movie, someone at YTV made a technical glitch and audio from some "yu-gi-oh" cartoon drowned out the audio of the movie, right when the crane-kick was happening.

I was disgusted, i mean... how could they do such a thing?

so i took matters into my own hands

i emailed them:

From: eastindianajones@gmail.com [mailto:eastindianajones@gmail.com]

Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 8:25 PM

To: Info YTV

Subject: Movies/Specials

hi there,

i was watching "the karate kid" last night (april 22nd) and
right when ralph macchio was about to execute the climactic "crane kick" i
began to hear an advertisement for "yu-gi-oh"

it was my nephew's first time ever watching this great film about morals
and trying hard to succeed, and this blunder pretty much ruined the film
for him

what the heck happened?

needless to say, he was very disappointed, as was i

please contact me back at eastindianajones@gmail.com

thank you for your time,
amandeep johal

Today, i was surprised to see that they responded:

Hi Amandeep,

The situation that occurred during the airing of The Karate Kid on Saturday, April 22 was caused by an unintentional technical problem.

Although we weren’t able to rectify the 9pm E/P broadcast, the subsequent airing at 12am E/P was corrected and aired intact.

Please accept our apologies for the disappointment and frustration this broadcast inadvertently caused.

Regards,
YTV Viewer Relations Department

OH REALLY????

WELL ALLOW ME TO RETORT!:

12am??? midnight??!!!??

surely you can't be serious

correct me if i'm wrong, but doesn't the "y" in "YTV" stand for "youth"?

what type of guardian do you take me to be if i keep a single-digit-aged child awake into the wee hours of the morning? i believe that you people at YTV would understand this more than any other adult.

and i do believe it would have been illegal for me to tape such a show to air to my nephew at a more reasonable time, as stated in the following:

International agreement and national laws protect copyrighted recordings. UNAUTHORIZED REPRODUCTION, EXHIBITION OR DISTRIBUTION OF COPYRIGHTED RECORDINGS CAN RESULT IN SEVERE CRIMINAL AND CIVIL PENALTIES UNDER THE LAWS OF YOUR COUNTRY. The International Criminal Police Organization INTERPOL has expressed its concern about recording piracy to all of its member national police forces (Resolution adopted by INTERPOL General Assembly, Stockholm, Sweden, September 8, 1977.)

surely you wouldn't want me to do such things and be branded a criminal,
especially in front of my nephew

trusting in YTV as a great television station and definitive piece of canadian media for today's youth, i believe you can do better than showing THE KARATE KID at midnight

my nephew is quite disappointed and appears to have lost faith, just recently he requested that i buy a sattelite and order Nickelodeon for him instead

please show your patriotism and respect of your viewers,
fix this problem, as i am now viewed as an uncle with a black cloud over his head

thank you kindly,
amn johal

stay tuned for any reply....

it's not over yet, YTV... not even close!!

*waving my fist*

boo - you're it

title stolen from http://ithinktracyisspecial.blogspot.com/

FOUR JOBS I’VE HAD
1. Paper Route
2. Landscaping/Window washing (skyscrapers, not cars)
3. Bouncer
4. Movie Theatre Treasurer

FOUR MOVIES/SHOWS I’VE BEEN ADDICTED TO:
1. 24
2. The Princess Bride (stop laughing)
3. The Usual Suspects
4. Bear In The Big Blue House

FOUR PLACES I’VE LIVED:
in this order up until present
1. house in Delta (for the first 9 months of my life)
2. house in Guildford (for the next 20 years of my life)
3. house in Newton (for 5 years after that)
4. my sister's house by Bear Creek (until my townhouse is built in December... that's right beyaaatches!! i'm a HOMEOWNER!)

FOUR COUNTRIES I WOULD LIKE TO VISIT:
1. New Zealand
2. Scotland
3. Japan
4. United Arab Emirates

FOUR POPULAR FALSE ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT ME:
1. I like to fight
2. I'm 30
3. i'm a computer wiz
4. that i smoke

FOUR PEOPLE I LOOK LIKE (according to some people):
i swear i've actually heard these, the first one all the time... doesn't mean i agree...
1. South Park's Chef
2. Daler Mendhi (i kidd i kidd)
3. That guy...
4. you know.... that guy.... who's always doing things!

FOUR THINGS (I HOPE) TO DO BEFORE I DIE:
1. Act in another stage play
2. Married with children
3. Have a retirement party
4. Watch my kid score a goal in hockey

PEOPLE I TAG NEXT:
1. shaun!

"Tea, earl grey. Hot."

If you're a normal person, the title of this entry means nothing. If you're like me, you know that is the favourite drink of Jean Luc Picard, captain of the USS Enterprise on Star Trek, The Next Generation.

I always wondered how a futuristic machine like that would work (a "replicator" that is). When all you had to do is walk up to it, tell it what you would like to eat, and *poof* it's there.

In the back of my mind, every time Jean Luc Picard would order his drink, i thought there was someone in the universe who had just made themselves a nice cup of tea, and just like a teleporter, it would disappear and be beamed straight up to the Enterprise.

Man I'd be pissed off if that happened to me.

Think about it. What if some jackass ordered "thanksgiving turkey with all the fixin's" and then a giant family in Nebraska just about to sit down at the table for a hearfelt "thankful" meal and BAM! .... it's gone.

no sir,
not pleasant at all.

couldn't someone have just bought him a little plug-in teapot with a whole assortment of earl grey teabags?