GIven my obvious and well known OTA bias here at this site

I was not impressed by the two G&M articles. I read and reread them to arrive at the same conclusion as some of you: puff pieces that spin the story of the consumer's TV future as having only one facet: the IPTV attack on the CATV stronghold... blah blah blah...
Given the 1950's style photo used in the print version which depicts a nuclear family gathered around a new TV set, it is fair to compare those two articles to the sugary North American automobile reviews of the 1950s and 60s that revolved purely around the latest, greatest, chrome-laden, behemoth land liners coming from Ford, GM, and Chrysler. Meanwhile, in consumer reality, a little car called the Volkswagen and some tiny imported cars called Toyotas and Datsuns were about to change everything forever with their economical, sensible size and their gradually improving workmanship, soon overtaking the Big Three in those categories. (The purpose of that analogy is that what the writers fail to identify is the good sense of many consumers when it comes to their budgets).
Something we at this site see on a routine basis: a substantial number of people now use OTA as their prime TV source, with CATV, IPTV, Internet-based TV, or BD/DVD rental as the solution for programming not carried OTA. On any given day here at this site the most popular forum of all is the OTA Forum, with Bell sometimes in the lead but usually close and the CATV and IPTV forums far behind. With DTV stations popping up across Canada the number of OTA users will only grow. Will they drop CATV, IPTV, etc. en masse? Of course not, but they'll be able to find
other ways to watch TV, and that's the subject of an entire thread:
Pros and Cons of Going OTA so no point in rehashing any of that here.
Oh well, as I say, just puff pieces aimed narrowly at pumping IPTV.