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 |
Read more about this topic: Media In Greater Sudbury
Famous quotes containing the word television:
“We cannot spare our children the influence of harmful values by turning off the television any more than we can keep them home forever or revamp the world before they get there. Merely keeping them in the dark is no protection and, in fact, can make them vulnerable and immature.”
—Polly Berrien Berends (20th century)
“Television is an excellent system when one has nothing to lose, as is the case with a nomadic and rootless country like the United States, but in Europe the affect of television is that of a bulldozer which reduces culture to the lowest possible denominator.”
—Marc Fumaroli (b. 1932)
“The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn’t there something reassuring about it!—that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another’s eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms—nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)