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BREAKING NEWS: TVO to abandon over-the-air broadcasting in analogue markets

Dear Minister Moore, TVO, Ontario’s public educational broadcaster, has announced it will end over-the-air television broadcasting in existing analogue markets. According to an April, 2012 TVO Update, 100 LPRT analogue television transmitters will be decommissioned “immediately”. 14 Medium/High Power transmitters … Continue reading

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Last Channel Standing

Hi Minister Moore, After waiting almost seven weeks for Canadian television broadcasters to work out the kinks in their digital transmitters, I’m writing to advise that Global TV is the last OTA channel standing in Denbigh, Ontario. No other OTA … Continue reading

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Less than one week to Canada’s digital television transition!

Dear Minister Moore, A quick post from the Ottawa Valley to wish you a happy 1 week until the DTV transition. If the transition tweaks still being made by CHCH and TVO are any indication, next week should be very … Continue reading

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Hello TVO, bye bye CHCH

Source: logopedia Dear Minister Moore, Writing with a good news/bad news OTA TV update. I’ll give you the bad news first. The bad news is that I’m no longer able to watch CHCH television. I’ve been unable to receive it … Continue reading

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TVO Goes Digital OTA Next Week

Dear Minister Moore, Next week will be a big one for TVO. The Ontario provincial educational broadcaster will be “live-cutting” from analogue to digital in nine of its television markets. While other Canadian broadcasters started (low power) digital over-the-air (OTA) … Continue reading

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cartt.ca article re-post: Cord-Cutting: Figuring out the OTA option isn’t easy

Hello Minister Moore, Mr. @gregobr asked me to write a report on the status of OTA DTV signals in sample cities across Canada for cartt.ca. Re-posting the article here, with permission. Feel free to add info about the status of … Continue reading

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3 Months until Canada’s digital television transition

Dear Minister Moore, A quick note to wish you a Happy 3 Months Until Canada’s DTV Transition. May was a comparatively good month with regards to educating the public about the transition. Better late than never. There is room for … Continue reading

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Digital Television Transition PSA Report

Dear Minister Moore, Seeing that 10 days have passed since Canadian broadcasters were to have started airing digital television PSAs (for really, really this time), I thought I would list the ones I’ve spotted. Sadly/strangely, very few of the PSAs … Continue reading

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5 Months to Canada’s Digital Television Transition

Dear Candidate Moore, Happy 5 months to Canada’s digital television transition. As one of my OTA TV advocate colleague at CACTUS likes to say, it’s never too late to implement a comprehensive digital television transition strategy. March did include some … Continue reading

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Analog shut-off: U.S. moving to mobile TV while Canadians still talking transition (cartt.ca)

Dear Minister Moore, Greg O’Brien at cartt.ca has kindly granted me permission to re-post the SMPTE Toronto ATSC report that I wrote for the web-based news platform this week. Enjoy! Best, Steven ——— Analog shut-off: U.S. moving to mobile TV … Continue reading

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