A CBC staffer recalls preempting Coronation Street for election coverage and facing an uproar. Viewers drove to the plaza outside the building and honked their horns in protest. The soap opera's audience was far more protective than hockey fans ever were.
Could you imagine if we lost Coronation Street? This is 100% true. I used to work at CBC, and you can interrupt any show and it would not be a problem. You could even interrupt hockey and you don't get complaints. But let me tell you something, we had to interrupt for like a provincial election something or other, uh, Coronation Street one time. You would not believe the complaints. Let me tell you, the complaints were so bad they This is like, we were doing like a big outdoor, I guess, a provincial election. And at the time, CBC had this sort of big plaza in front of the building, and so broadcasts, remote broadcasts, were often done there. People drove down to the fucking plaza and honked their horns and complained that we had preempted Coronation Street. Not hockey, Coronation Street.
Ten times Canada helped the U.S. with its wildfires, instead of whining about the smoke. 
