# Canada "approves" satellite radio

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/canada-approves-satellite-radio/151809>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [June 18, 2005, 6:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/canada-approves-satellite-radio/151809 "2005-06-18T06:14:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![blindlizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47774/32.png) [@blindlizard](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/blindlizard)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 6:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/canada-approves-satellite-radio/151809/1 "2005-06-18T06:14:10Z")

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[http://www.technewsworld.com/story/D3BFAxtkY2dfnX/Canada-Approves-Sirius-XM-Satellite-Radio.xhtml](http://www.technewsworld.com/story/D3BFAxtkY2dfnX/Canada-Approves-Sirius-XM-Satellite-Radio.xhtml)

Not bad enough that the government has to “approve” radio, they require them to run 8 Canadian produced channels with 85% Canadian programming… Does anyone else find this odd?