CRTC Public Proceeding on DTV in Canada: May 6, 2010

[stampeder]

Call for comments on issues related to the digital television transition

In this notice, the Commission calls for comments and seeks further information on the number of Canadians that could potentially lose service as a result of the transition to over-the-air digital television (DTV), on its proposal to authorize the provision by broadcasting distribution undertakings of a free package consisting of all local and regional conventional television signals currently available over-the-air in a given market, on possible regulatory measures to educate consumers regarding the DTV transition, on the implementation of one or more trial market(s) for DTV conversion and on other related matters. The deadline for the receipt of comments is 6 May 2010.

http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2010/2010-169.htm

If you intend to intervene just use the easy to follow instructions in the Procedure for filing comments section of that page.

This is mostly an info-finding expedition to determine if/whether/how many Converter Boxes would be required to transition present analogue OTA users to DTV.

We can discuss this here but if you have complaints or strong opinions about the government possibly giving out such boxes you'd better be prepared to submit an intervention or we'll have to just ignore you here.