Canadian Towns and Cities that Will Continue to Enjoy Free CBC and Radio-Canada After July 31, 2012
Submitted by Cathy Edwards on Tue, 2012-05-22 16:37.
On July 31, 2012, the CBC/Radio-Canada plan to shut off free over-the-air service everywhere in Canada EXCEPT in the following urban centres:
CBC
St. Johns, NL
Halifax
Charlottetown
Fredericton
Montreal
Ottawa
Toronto
Windsor
Winnipeg
Regina
Edmonton
Calgary
Vancouver
Yellowknife
Radio-Canada
Moncton
Rimouski
Sherbrooke
Trois-Rivieres
Jonquieres
Quebec
Montreal
Ottawa
Toronto
Winnipeg
Regina
Edmonton
Vancouver
If you watch the CBC or Radio-Canada using a cable or satellite service, you are not affected.
If you watch with ‘bunny ears’ or a rooftop antenna and you live outside these 27 urban centres, you have two options if you want to continue to watch the CBC or Radio-Canada:
- Subscribe to a cable or satellite service.
- Ask the CBC/Radio-Canada for its analog transmitter in your community, in order to keep distributing the CBC/Radio-Canada free to air. If communities do not request these transmitters (and in many cases the towers they are mounted on as well, the CBC/Radio-Canada will “decommission” them (throw them out).
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