As a follow-up to this story - I had sent the network an email expressing both my wife and I's disappointment and disgust with the footage they'd aired...fully expecting it to fall on deaf and apathetic ears.
It didn't.
Just this morning I received an email reply from Paul Rogers, vice-president of CTVNetwork. In it, he initially replied that after reviewing the footage himself...it didn't contain the scenes that we had witnessed. Furthermore, he went on to say that his network adheres to the RTNDA and CAB Code of Ethics with regards to depictions of violence...and in particular stories that deal with children.
So I replied back to him saying we were 100% certain we'd seen the footage and that we definitely weren't delusional. I suggested there may have been confusion between the 11pm national broadcast and the 11:30pm local broadcast from CFTO-TV - and that he should review all of it.
I hit the email send - and less than one minute later my phone rings. Its Paul Rogers. He'd been sitting on his email and just then got my reply!
So we had a very good conversation - and clarified which broadcast we'd seen the footage on. Turns out, he had only reviewed last night's broadcast, and not the initial airing of the story. He was just as appalled and shocked as I was - and earnestly promised to look into the matter fully.
"Heads are gonna roll if indeed that footage went on the air that night," he said. "Its certainly not our policy to show such things on our network, and I'll definitely be getting to the bottom of this immediately."
He promised to get back in touch asap.
Sounds as the though the shit's gonna hit the fan there this afternoon.
