ARLA/CLUSTER: Problemas também com o fim das emissões de televisão analógica no Canadá

[João Gonçalves Costa]

Up to 2 millions Canadians may lose TV signals on 1 Sept

Tens of thousands of Canadians may be looking at blank TV screens on 1 September.

At midnight on 31 August, television signals in major Canadian markets will be converted from analogue to digital to meet a deadline imposed by the federal broadcast regulator. 

Despite government and broadcast industry assurances that the transition would be simple, inexpensive and inclusive, industry watchdogs say as many as two million people who receive TV programmes via antennae may be left with nothing on their screens but snow.

"As many as 1.4 million English-language viewers and 700,000 Francophone viewers may be left without a CBC signal," says Ian Morrison, spokesman for Friends of Public Broadcasting. Mr Morrison said those numbers come from a 2008 study that was commissioned by the Canadian Heritage ministry.

Read more from the Toronto Star ( http://www.interconnectionworld.com/index/display/wire-news-display/1473170690.html )

Fonte: Media Network