Shaw Communications Gives Canadians Chance To Turn Off Fox News Channel Over Military Slight

By The Canadian Press

CALGARY - Some Canadian television viewers still steamed over the country's military being trashed on a Fox News show two months ago will be able to keep the channel out of their homes.

Fox News is beamed into the homes of about 700,000 Shaw Communications customers.

The Fox News Red Eye show, which in March featured a group of pundits taking turns trashing Canada and its reliability as an ally, caused a national uproar, with the Canadian government calling it "despicable" and "disgusting."

Shaw Communications President Peter Bissonnette said customers now will have the option of having Fox News removed from their programming and replaced with another channel at no extra cost.

He said although viewers don't have to watch it, for many it has become a "moral issue" and they don't want it coming into their homes.

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CANADIAN PRESS: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090514/entertainment/fox_news_shaw

I think it's time that the people take back control of the airwaves and cable. Damn good idea.

first amendment rights being denied by Canadian television?