This could have easily been written anytime post 1980 or so

Television is primarily entertainment. 

The ‘good stuff’ - pbs, tvo, and a few others are a small fraction of the volume of what is available

The USA produces the best ‘entertainment’, and sad unfunny attempts to mimic it will 
always be very pale imitations, with low ratings.

US sitcoms are eye-rolling dumb. But CBC for some reason produces ‘product’ which is cringe inducing and painfully unwatchable