DCHP-3

CanCon

DCHP-2 (Oct 2016)

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Cancon

n. — Entertainment, abbreviation, informal

the shortened form of Canadian content.

Type: 1. Origin — See also COD-2, s.v. "CanCon", which is marked "Cdn informal", Gage-5, s.v. "Cancon", which is marked "Cdn. Informal", and ITP Nelson, s.v. "CanCon", which is marked "Cdn. in origin".
CanCon is more prevalent than Canadian content.

Quotations

1983
The use of financial, as well as time, requirements for what the industry calls Cancon (Canadian content) was established in the pay-TV licencing decision last March.
1989
But when abyssmal, low-ball CHCH Cancon fillers like Smith & Smith's Comedy Mill pick up nominations for best variety series and incredibly, best writing in such a series, it makes you wonder about the whole process.
1995
With record producers, engineers, managers, agents, public-relations people and concert promoters, they form the Canadian music industry -- an industry born 25 years ago this month from bitterly contested legislation known as the Canadian Content Regulations -- CanCon for short.
2008
"Younger people have more choices and don't have as much loyalty to Canadian content as people once did," he said. "It will be difficult for the CanCon mentality to play in this ecosystem."
2013
And I think because the Canadian music scene has gotten so good in the last little while. There was that whole CanCon thing where people were forced to play Canadian music, and now people choose to hear Canadian music.

References

  • COD-2
  • Gage-5
  • ITP Nelson