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spunker88 said:
The cable companies should have their cables better insulated against that, otherwise signal loss would be high and cables would act as an antenna. Older less insulated first...
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To some degree it's beyond the cable operators' control. You allude to one source of leakage: inadequately shielded TV receivers. Another are poorly-shielded cables installed by *subscribers* to hook up a VCR/add a TV in another room/replace a cable operator-supplied cable that got chewed by the dog/etc... I've not worked in that industry but I've heard of some degree of piracy -- people who don't want to pay for their cable running their own lines from the splitters -- and not doing a particularly good job of it.

The operators do need to keep their lines shielded, but I don't know that proper shielding on their part is adequate to make the use of "impaired channels" for required (or popular) programming a good idea.
 
e-dawg said:
Except for CKVR A 3, and CFTO CTV 9 which doesn't serve the rest of the province of Ontario like CBLT CBC 5, CHCH 11, CBLFT SRC 25, CITS CTS 36, CIII-TV Global 41, CFMT OMNI 1 47, CKXT SUN TV 52, and CJMT OMNI-2 69. Others stations have repeaters thru out Ontario especially Ottawa, and London.
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CFTO covers a pretty wide area - they also have rebroadcast transmitters at Peterborough and Orillia, and they're carried on basic cable as far east as Belleville and as far west as Woodstock. The Orillia transmitter covers Muskoka quite well. Additionally they are the de facto CTV station on satellite in Southwestern Ontario, as CKCO is not carried on either satellite service.

I don't count CKVR as a Toronto station. Although it is available throughout the GTA, it is not a Bloor and Yonge station.
 
M.J. said:
I don't count CKVR as a Toronto station. Although it is available throughout the GTA, it is not a Bloor and Yonge station.
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It's a Barrie station. PERIOD. I'm sick and tired of the CRTC and other sources allowing them to count in as a Toronto station.

Their news is Barrie news, not Toronto news.

Toronto ain't Barrie, and Barrie ain't Toronto!

At least CTV finally removed "Toronto" and replaced it respectfully with "Barrie" as one of the choices here: http://www.atv.ca/
 
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