I was away for vacation when the flash cut occurred. I am located about 100 miles north of Toronto. I have access to three different digital signals - one is CKVR 10.1 (CTV 2 network) , CHCH 67.1 (independent) , and CIII 7.3 (global). Signals are excellent from all transmitters. I'm disappointed that CBC elected to shutdown the local transmitter and not provide a digital signal. There are still a few analog signals here - CBC French on ch 34, CTV on ch 21, and TVO on ch 51. I'm not sure why they are allowed to continue in analog? I'll have to do some further reading to determine why some of the analogs are still there.
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Doesn't anyone find it just a little bit Ironic that CBC Television, a company that gets tax dollar support, as well as ad revenue to survive, is the one company crying poor, and demanding an extention beyond their (already extended) 2012 deadline to go all digital.
Meanwhile, other companies are all good to go!
Meanwhile, other companies are all good to go!
Yeziknoradio said:
I agree 100 %. It would seem to me that the national tv broadcaster would be leading the way in the conversion instead of making excuses.
seminole791 said:
Those analog signals were not technically located in mandatory markets as they are not meant to reach Barrie.
Yeziknoradio said:
I might be way off here....... but my theory about CBC, is that, they have a God complex. To some viewers, (IMO) CBC is "their" network, and the ONLY one that speaks to them as Canadians. Much like BBC in Britain. The Government coddles them, and when they cry, they're cradled until smothered with kisses! The CBC is probably soooooo afraid that entire communities of cable-less viewers, who may be (when compared to others) living in a technological wasteland who aren't even able to buy a digital converter box, even if they wanted to, much-less know what one is... might NOT be able to watch The National again!
I'm surprised they haven't began a mailing campaign to send boxes at random to addresses in communities whom they feel would be cut-off from society if all of CBC ceased to operate in analog.
RBW said:
The problem with that theory, is that for a few years now, the CBC has not been bothering to replace privately-owned affiliates that switch networks or go dark. Well before the digital conversion, CBC was dark in a number of inland BC communities including Kamloops and Prince George, when the private affiliates there flipped. They've been dark in southwest Manitoba including Brandon since affiliate CKX-TV went dark two years ago.
In the past, these moves would have resulted in the CBC putting in a new transmitter of their nearest O&O station. (as they had in Kelowna a few years earlier when CHBC-TV disaffiliated; they built a transmitter of CBUT Vancouver on channel 45) That didn't happen in these more recent cases.
In other words, well before digital came along, the CBC has not seemed inclined to spend much money to maintain OTA coverage.
I would not be stunned if the transmitters for which a conversion extension was given are *never* converted to digital -- are operated in analog until they suffer an expensive failure, and are then simply abandoned.
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