Liberal $500 million tax dollar disaster
1/5/2012 2:02:00 PM
On Jan 5, 12:03 am, Michael Black <et...@ncf.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Rich wrote:
> > Michael Black <et...@ncf.ca> wrote in
> >news:Pine.LNX.4.64.1201042045330.5337@darkstar.example.net:
>
> >> On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, shawn wrote:
>
> >>> On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 13:41:02 -0800 (PST), RichA <rander3...@gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
>
> >>>> Much, MUCH, lower-power broadcasting than American counterparts in
> >>>> New York, Buffalo and Rochester. Reason? The cable monopolies
> >>>> (Rogers, Shaw) and Bell fought tooth and nail against the conversion
> >>>> because they don't want anyone going straight off air. The more
> >>>> people who do, the less money the monopolists get in the market
> >>>> because they (people) aren't having to go through a paid cable or
> >>>> telephone line. In the Toronto market, you can capture at least 25
> >>>> stations in the American N.E., and very few Canadian ones in closer
> >>>> proximity!! Net result? More and more Canadians in urban markets
> >>>> are seeing American broadcasts via American stations on the border
> >>>> which means NO Canadian commercials! I wonder how that strikes the
> >>>> grasping companies up here?
>
> >>> How long before they try to introduce an intefering signal to help
> >>> prevent the Canadians from picking up those illecit American
> >>> broadcasts?
>
> >> That used to happen, though I have no idea if it was deliberate or
> >> not.
>
> >> The only time I could watch NBC or CBS in the analog era was before
> >> the adjacent local stations went on the air. Which meant back in the
> >> sixties. If I got up early enough, I could watch some of Captain
> >> Kangaroo before the adjacent local station went on the air. Of course
> >> the local station didn't even provide content at that early time in
> >> the morning, it was a test pattern for a while. It was better on
> >> weekends since the local stations got up later, so I could watch more
> >> cartoons.
>
> >> That all disappeared when tv stations went to 24 hour broadcasting,
> >> even if all they ran overnight was infomercials.
>
> >> With DTV I can get more US stations than I could with analog, ABC the
> >> only one missing (for some reason the Burlington Vt ABC station
> >> decided to pick a low frequency, and that's a problem). With
> >> subchannels, it's even better (though some of the subchannels aren't
> >> useful).
>
> >> Michael
>
> > And they change programming like an octopus changes camoflage. A local
> > sports sub-channel just went down in flames, and replaced itself with
> > retro-progamming.
>
> That hasn't happened here in Montreal. But, one of the two PBS stations
> has the main channel on a subchannel in lower definition, the two PBS
> stations air common contents on their subchannels ("World"? It's just
> repeats of what was on PBS, some recent, some older). The CBS station
> uses their subchannel for weather. Global added a subchannel for some
> reason, and it's just a lower definition version of the main channel.
>
In Toronto, the Buffalo PBS's are: HD, SD and "World." NBC or channel
2.0 is HD regular, but the 2.1 channel was MSG sports for some time,
but now is a mish-mash of retro programming. There used to be three
NBC channels at one time.