A study investigated the differences between television news programming in Canada and the United States in three areas: ownership (public versus private), language (French versus English), and nation of origin (Canada versus the United States), in order to determine basic differences in network TV news content Canadian viewers may experience, depending on their news source. Network newscasts generated from a randomly constructed Monday-through-Friday week drawn from the final 3 weeks of October 1985 were coded and subjected to content analysis. Findings indicated that: (1) regardless of which television news they watch, Canadians and Americans do not receive in-depth reports of events; (2) Canadians viewing American network news will be exposed to virtually nothing about events in Canada; (3) in both countries, international news reporting tends to follow the same general criteria for newsworthiness (armed conflict, terrorism, etc.); (4) while politics and economics are the chief areas of focus on all networks, these topics are covered to a far greater extent on Canadian networks; (5) the profession of news reporter on privately-owned Canadian networks is almost exclusively male--network anchors are all male; and (6) there is no apparent public or private ownership agenda concerning type of coverage, items covered, or issues or areas of coverage. (Data tables are included.) (NKA)