TVO to end OTA broadcasts outside of Toronto
Media | 01/31/2017 7:34 pm EST
Ontario public broadcaster TVO will shut down eight over-the-air transmitters, keeping one transmitter in Toronto “for the purposes of the CRTC licence and to minimize distribution costs,” it said in a Jan. 25 press release.
Broadcasts will stop on July 31 in a move that will save the broadcaster $1 million per year, it said.
The affected transmitters are in Ottawa, Belleville, Chatham, Cloyne, Kitchener, London, Thunder Bay and Windsor, Ont.
The release added that fewer than one per cent of Ontario households will be affected, given “the prevalent
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