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	I can see a few possible results from placing country-specific categories on this page. Oh, look, it's a trope about Broadcasting in the United States - so the Monty Python sketch has to go because it's blimy British. Oh, look, it's a trope about Broadcasting in the United States - so we'd better not add any content about the college FM station in Toronto that lost its licence for broadcasting months of [[Dead Air]]. Oh, look, it's a trope about Broadcasting in the United States - so we'd better remove every "colour telly" and replace them all with "COLOR TV" in order to replace PAL with NTSC. And on it goes. And no, I'm not suggesting creating "category:Broadcasting in Canada" and adding it here, as that's still arbitrarily limiting something which was intended to address the trope globally.		I can see a few possible results from placing country-specific categories on this page. Oh, look, it's a trope about Broadcasting in the United States - so the Monty Python sketch has to go because it's blimy British. Oh, look, it's a trope about Broadcasting in the United States - so we'd better not add any content about the college FM station in Toronto that lost its licence for broadcasting months of [[Dead Air]]. Oh, look, it's a trope about Broadcasting in the United States - so we'd better remove every "colour telly" and replace them all with "COLOR TV" in order to replace PAL with NTSC. And on it goes. And no, I'm not suggesting creating "category:Broadcasting in Canada" and adding it here, as that's still arbitrarily limiting something which was intended to address the trope globally.

	If there's a new category created? It should be [[:Category:Broadcasting ~~tropes~~]], not another country-specific category.		If there's a new category created? It should be [[:Category:Broadcasting]], not another country-specific category.