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Inaccurate reporting on DTV transition

27 Saturday Aug 2011

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If some media reports are to be believed, antennas for your television are useless as of next week.
Not so.
Switching to digital does not necessarily mean having to rid yourself of your old antenna, although in some cases it might.
More likely, people will have to make adjustments to older TV sets by either buying a digital converter or upgrading to a whole new television.
In any case, the misunderstanding and misinformation is leading to headline writers to proclaim the death of all antenna television as if Sept. 1.
That’s the biggest mistake if all.
If anything, antenna OTA television is getting a much-needed upgrade and will be, in many cases, the TV source with the best visual quality out there.
To my fellow journalists: Please do your homework and get it right. Antenna television is alive and well.

CBC/Radio-Canada backtracks … sort of

01 Monday Aug 2011

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Two weeks ago, I complained about the CBC’s terrible plans for DTV transition, which would involve turning off several terrestrial transmitters as of Sept. 1 because the crown corporation didn’t want to undertake a DTV transition for those repeater stations in mandatory markets.
Since then, CBC/Radio-Canada has applied to maintain analog coverage to certain markets, all in the east of Canada:

  • Windsor (SRC)
  • London and Kitchener (CBC & SRC)
  • Quebec, Trois-Rivières and Saguenay (CBC)

    • For the most part, interventions from private individuals welcome the maintaining of OTA service but all demand the CBC/Radio-Canada undertake a full DTV transition for those stations.
    Link to CRTC Part 1 applications, where the intervention period has elapsed.
    Link to CRTC Part 1 applications, where it is still possible to intervene.