The IT Nerd

If you were looking forward to CraveTV launching to all Canadians on January 1st, you’re going to be a bit disappointed. Many outlets including yours truly reported the January 1st launch date that would open up the streaming service to those who aren’t Bell customers. Now it seems that MobileSyrup has caught onto a “bait and switch” of some sort by Bell who owns CraveTV where the launch date has quietly changed:

So as we do when we revisit a story, we went back to the original article, clicked on the original source (I know, hard-hitting journalism here, right?) and found that the original press release is no longer valid. Instead, the company retconned the original (Berenstain Bears, much?) to make it appear as if that January 1st date was never offered in the first place. Now, the press release, still dated July 13th, says it “will become available direct to consumers in January, 2016.”

Well, the folks at MobileSyrup might want to check out CNW as that’s where I got the original press release from which still says January 1st as I linked to that press release when the announcement was made. So, what gives Bell? Do you not have enough integrity to admit that you can’t launch on January 1st? Thus you try to rewrite history hoping that nobody notices? That’s pretty low if that’s the case.

I can’t wait to see how they explain this one. Assuming that they ever do explain it. Which knowing Bell, they won’t.

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