What is happening to change free TV in Canada?
Television around the world is in the midst of a transition from analogue to digital production and broadcasting. If you watch U.S. stations, you probably know that those stations are now broadcast in digital. In Canada, many broadcasters in the largest cities now send out signals using both analogue and digital transmitters. Broadcasters in larger Canadian centres will be required to turn off their analogue transmitters by August 31, 2011. In July 2009, the CRTC – the Canadian broadcast regulator – ruled that broadcasters would only have to put up digital transmitters in 29 major cities, including the provincial and territorial capitals.
