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A6 Tuesday, July 24, 2012 NEWS Leader-Post leaderpost.com BROADCASTING Rabbit ears becoming an extinct species BRUCE JOHNSTONE LEADER-POST decided some time ago not to switch to cable or satellite. That 1.7 per cent of Canadians can switch to cable, satellite or the Internet, or over-the-air digital, which covers more than 70 per cent of the Canadian population. Shaw Direct is also offering a low-cost satellite TV service, which will offer a basic TV service similar to over-the-air analog. For more information, call CBCs toll-free number at 1-888-303-5172 or visit the CBCs website at Steve Guiton, vice-president of regulatory affairs with CBC in Ottawa, said the demise of the analog system has been in the works for years, especially since the U.S. converted to digital in 2009.

Last August, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ordered TV broadcasters to convert from analog to digital signals across the country. While most stations made the conversion to digital, CBC maintained its 600-plus analog transmitters to provide basic service to Canadians in rural or remote areas. But the spring budget forced CBC to accelerate its plans to shut the transmitters down, saving an estimated $10 million a year, which can be used to support programming, Guiton said. There are so few people using over-the-air antenna to receive their TV signals, that it just doesnt make sense to replicate that analog infrastructure in digital, he said, adding analog equipment is no longer being manufactured in the U.S. and parts are expensive and hard to come by All things considered, when you look at the cost of maintaining those transmitters, plus the very low usage and the obsolescence, it makes sense for us to turn them off at this point Guiton said most of the people still using analog over-the-air signals would not be heavy TV users.

A lot of the people who are still using those rabbit ears, theyre doing so because they really dont have a big interest in TV. TV is not a big part of their life. They month. If you use an antenna to watch television and receive an analog signal from CBC Television or Television de Radio-Canada, then you will need to change how you receive our TV services, a CBC press release said. CBC said fewer than two per cent of Canadians will be affected by the shutdown of our analog system.

Over 98 per cent of Canadians will continue to receive their CBC television signal the same way they do today: Cable, satellite, digital over-the-air (or) Internet The rabbit ears television antenna, once a familiar fixture in homes across Canada and the U.S., is going the way of rotary phone, the cassette tape and the VCR the last vestige of an obsolete technology Canadian Broadcasting Corp. recently announced that its shutting down more than 600 analog TV transmitters across Canada, including about 40 in Saskatchewan, at the end of the Woman critically injured when horse falls in ravine VANCOUVER Third Stanley Cup rioter off to jail qypf UW Jfyl 'M4J CANADIAN PRESS CANADIAN PRESS 1 A I aJ It A -V Tf' A 'A JZ ing lost its footing, and they both fell 25 metres to the bottom of the coulee. The horse is OK, but the rider suffered severe head injuries in the fall. Fire, police and rescue units from Milk River and Coutts responded. They had to move the woman more than 150 metres to the top of the coulee so STARS air ambulance could take her to Foothills Hospital in Calgary.

MILK RIVER, Alta. A 57-year-old southern Alberta woman is in critical condition after falling down a coulee while on horseback. The woman, who is from Medicine Hat, was taking part in a trail ride in Police Coulee, just south of Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park. The horse she was rid 'i-s 1 4 I JP r- vf. Man dead after Alta, bridge jump VANCOUVER A 23-year-old man from Burnaby, B.C., spent the weekend in jail as he began serving a seven-month jail term for his part in last years Stanley Cup riot in downtown Vancouver.

Sean Yates pleaded guilty in Vancouver provincial court to participating in a riot and assaulting a police officer, and was sentenced Friday, becoming the third person sent to jail for the melee. Charges were laid after Yates was spotted in the crowd that set fires outside the main Canada Post office and looted the downtown location of The Bay department store on June 15, 2011, following Vancouvers loss in the Stanley Cup final. Yates has also been placed on probation for one year and must pay a $250 victim surcharge fee. In the year since the riot. Crown prosecutors have ap Q'- Postmedla News Hockey fans riot after Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final between the Vancouver Canucks and the Boston Bruins in Vancouver on June 15, 2011.

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Two recreational divers who happened to be in the area found the man and brought him to shore, but he died at the scene. In a separate accident, a 35-year-old Calgary man died after a raft he was riding with four other people flipped on a waterfall on the Highwood River west of Longview, Alta. conditional sentence under house arrest Police say more charges will be laid and have recom proved 301 charges against 114 people, with Yates and two others sent to jail, while a fourth man is serving a mended a total of 674 counts against 225 people, with the first riot trials not due to begin until February 2013. IfjC eH kit FAMILY KITCHEN HOME-COOKED GOODNESS IN A FRIENDLY ATMOSPHERE 2302 9th Ave. N.

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