Television
The city is served by only one conventional broadcast station which originates programming locally. The remainder are rebroadcasters of stations from other markets.
None of these transmitters have analog to digital (DTV) signals in operation, even though the CRTC has pre-allocated digital channels in case any of them decides to apply for a DTV license. Greater Sudbury did not fall into the category of major broadcasting markets, which was the benchmark for the CRTC to force broadcasters to convert to DTV on August 31, 2011.
| OTA channel | DTV channel (allocated) | Cable channel | Call sign | Network | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 4 | CICI-TV | CTV | flagship of CTV Northern Ontario | |
| 11 | 3 | CFGC-TV | Global | rebroadcasts CIII-DT Toronto | |
| 41 | 6 | CHCH-TV-4 | independent | rebroadcasts CHCH-DT Hamilton |
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the greatest change is evident. In the place of traditional, sometimes ancient childhood games that were still popular a generation ago, in the place of fantasy and make- believe play . . . today’s children have substituted television viewing and, most recently, video games.”
—Marie Winn (20th century)
“There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials ... despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.”
—Peter Ustinov (b. 1921)
“Television ... helps blur the distinction between framed and unframed reality. Whereas going to the movies necessarily entails leaving one’s ordinary surroundings, soap operas are in fact spatially inseparable from the rest of one’s life. In homes where television is on most of the time, they are also temporally integrated into one’s “real” life and, unlike the experience of going out in the evening to see a show, may not even interrupt its regular flow.”
—Eviatar Zerubavel, U.S. sociologist, educator. The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life, ch. 5, University of Chicago Press (1991)