Sun News cancels Doug and Rob Ford’s TV show, Ford Nation, after only one broadcast
Well, that didn’t last long. Less than a day after its first episode, Ford Nation—the current affairs show starting Doug and Rob Ford—has been yanked from the air by Sun News.
The Globe and Mail is reporting that Ford Nation was a huge ratings success, pulling in about 155,000 viewers—that counts as a success for Sun News, which reaches only 40 per cent of Canadian homes—but is being binned anyhow because of “the Fords’ relative inexperience with the medium.” Apparently, yesterday’s episode took whopping five hours to shoot and another eight hours to edit. That’s a huge amount of resources for the fledgling Sun News Network. The economics just couldn’t support keeping the show on the air.
“It’s by far the most successful thing, from an audience perspective, the network has ever done,” Kory Teneycke, the vice president of Sun News, told the Globe. But Ford Nation will not be produced again. “For the Ford brothers, we welcome them back on our network, as we do all newsmakers, to be part of our programming as a guest on another show.”
Those interested in seeing yesterday’s episode of the show can check it out here. Rest assured that not all five hours of production time is shown. The video runs exactly 16:29 (the aired version of the show clocked in at about 40 minutes).
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Well, that didn't last long. Less than a day after its first episode, Ford Nation—the current affairs show starting Doug and Rob Ford—has been yanked from the air by Sun News.
The Globe and Mail is reporting that Ford Nation was a huge ratings success, pulling in about 155,000 viewers—that counts as a success for Sun News, which reaches only 40 per cent of Canadian homes—but is being binned anyhow because of "the Fords’ relative inexperience with the medium." Apparently, yesterday's episode took whopping five hours to shoot and another eight hours to edit. That's a huge amount of resources for the fledgling Sun News Network. The economics just couldn't support keeping the show on the air.
“It’s by far the most successful thing, from an audience perspective, the network has ever done,” Kory Teneycke, the vice president of Sun News, told the Globe. But Ford Nation will not be produced again. “For the Ford brothers, we welcome them back on our network, as we do all newsmakers, to be part of our programming as a guest on another show.”
Those interested in seeing yesterday's episode of the show can check it out here. Rest assured that not all five hours of production time is shown. The video runs exactly 16:29 (the aired version of the show clocked in at about 40 minutes).
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So sad… NOT!!!
too bad ford’s tenure as mayor couldn’t be cancelled so quickly.
If only SUN Noise could be cancelled, it would be even better. I remember when Teneycke swore up and down that it wouldn’t be a Fox clone; thankfully no one bought that whopper of a lie. Canada’s own Republican Bubble Machine…..all the noise, all the time.
This should save Sun News a lot of money.
Phew!!
I bet if the city took up a collection, we could get enough dough together to get SUN news to release the unedited footage. It’d be a huge coup for both sides. THink of the entertainment for us! he collected money might pay their operating costs for a few months, depending on how the kickstarter does. No need to feel guilty about paying them…it’s not like anyone watches ’em.
SUN must have realized this was not a tv show but simply a campaign informercial featuring the same six or so talking points the Fords were eager to share with any channel that would listen (CNN, CBC, CP24, NBC, FOX, etc)
I made mistakes. I’m not perfect. And neither are the other guys.
This is the worst time in my life since my Dad died.
Talk is cheap. I’m in the gym everyday and taking advice form healthcare professionals.
I saved the city a billion dollars.
I answer 4x as many phone calls as David Miller
My opponents can’t touch my political record so they ganged up on my personality.
Good thing we still have another, much better show starring a Doug and a Rob (Walker, as in The nostalgia critic).
I’ve never heard of Sun News, and probably won’t remember them either. xD