If you think I’m going to pay $10 more for local television, you’ve got another thing coming.
Every cable subscriber in Canada already pays for local television. It’s just that cable companies weren’t legally obliged to forward the funds over. And now they don’t want to hand a share of the pie over and are threatening to raise our rates further, on top of that 1.5% hike some of the cable companies started charging on September 1st for the “Local Programming Improvement Fund“.
Stupid and counterproductive.
HDTV will become the norm in September 2011 in Canada, allowing most Canadians to tune in to their local networks for free. And with the availability of programing on the internet, there’s a big possibility that quite a large number of Canadians will just pull the plug on cable, or at least reduce their services like yours truly.
Quite frankly, they don’t want me to reduce my cable down to one outlet with a digital terminal because Bell’s satellite service is significantly cheaper…
- LocalTVmatters.ca
- DigitalHome.ca – Over The Air Digital Television Forum
- Listing of OTA Television Stations in Canada
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