[kwlug-disc] Home made indoor TV Antenna

[R. Brent Clements]

The CRTC does not want to end OTA transmission.  Rogers does.  Apparently
their proposal was completely ridiculous.  The current federal government
seems to have a beef with the CBC, and have seen their funding and
journalistic credibility under serious fire from Harper.

What they need is to turn on another transmitter in the London area, not
shut down their existing ones.  Rogers operates a transmitter for OMNI2 in
London on channel 20, probably for the express purpose of interfering with
the CBC transmitter on the CN tower, which is also on UHF channel 20.  Thus
once you go farther east than KW an otherwise strong signal falls off very
quickly.

Rogers owns CityTV, and the two OMNIs.  The only reason they haven't made
them cable only is because they have been told they can't stop
transmitting.  If they do, the frequency is abandoned and an American
broadcaster will snap it up.  So the CRTC would have to let someone else
use the transmitter, which Rogers definitely does NOT want.

There has NEVER been a clearer case of conflict of interest anywhere in
Canada more obvious than the control that Rogers and Bell have over the
CRTC.

Brent

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 6:11 PM, John Johnson <jvj at golden.net> wrote:

> On 2014-09-16 17:04, B.S. wrote:
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>> All channels available via internet, free?
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> There is much of Ontario and Canada, too, where there is no internet
> service, no cellular service and no or limited VHF television reception.
> Just AM radio and, then, only if the residents are lucky.
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> JohnJ - who, in the 1960s, listened to WWVA 1170 AM Wheeling West Virgina
> from Northern Ontario
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