The following is an excerpt from the Regina Leader Post, 17 April 2010.  Read the full article here.

Gamracy, who has served as SCN board chair since 2007, says she has not met with a government minister since the last NDP minister responsible for the film industry. “I can say unequivocally I’ve never been treated so disrespectfully,” she said, adding that she certainly called and e-mailed to arrange meetings with Sask. Party government ministers and their officials.

And what might be most galling about what Gamracy calls the government’s “draconian” move is that government decided to shut down SCN on what seems to be a lot of misinformation, without any appreciation of the consequences.

For example, Gamracy said that Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport Minister Dustin Duncan’s line that only four per cent of Saskatchewan people watched SCN is wrong and — worse yet — dangerously misleading.

SCN’s annual report shows a 16 per cent viewership which is remarkably good because “in a 500-channel universe you don’t get a double-digit rating — nobody does,” she said.

Moreover, it would seem that SCN’s ability to provide programming to rural Saskatchewan (including southwest Saskatchewan television news) and northern communities along with its distance education program could be the definition of why “local TV matters” — a campaign Premier Brad Wall has glommed on to in solidarity with local CTV.

Read the complete article on the Leader Post website.