{"id":132,"date":"2005-11-19T10:18:51","date_gmt":"2005-11-19T15:18:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"niagara_tv_bid_rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/19\/niagara_tv_bid_rejected\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara TV bid rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/webapp\/sitepages\/content.asp?contentid=134175&amp;catname=Local%20News&amp;classif=News%20-%20Local\">St. Catharines Standard<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wendell Wilks says he spent the hours immediately after his Television Niagara bid was turned down drumming up more financing for another try at a commercial TV licence.<\/p>\n<p>But it sounds like he was working on his sports analogies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like a hockey game,&#8221; Wilks said. &#8220;The referee has given us a penalty, but in our opinion, the game is not over. You never win a game by beating up the referee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a fight,&#8221; the TVN president continued. &#8220;I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m bruised. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m battered. But I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to take another swing at them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s kind of like poker,&#8221; Wilks also offered. &#8220;And we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to call.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the St. Catharines Standard: Wendell Wilks says he spent the hours immediately after his Television Niagara bid was turned down drumming up more financing for another try at a commercial TV licence. But it sounds like he was working on his sports analogies. &#8220;It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like a hockey game,&#8221; Wilks said. &#8220;The referee has given&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}