Subj : TV Woes To : MIKE POWELL From : Rob Mccart Date : Sun Sep 21 2025 08:12:06 RM>> Someone else mentioned it to me and said that the OTA signals were >> coming back, as if it were required, and a person they knew with >> an antenna was getting 10 or 12 stations, but likely down closer >> to Toronto. MP>Here in the states, when they went digital, they were (and still are) >sending out an OTA signal but it can only be picked up with digital capable >equipment. Yes, August mentioned that for up here as well. MP>In Canada, did they actually turn off OTA all together at some point? Many years ago I could only ever get 3 Canadian channels by antenna broadcast from the nearest cell tower I believe. But when satellite and cable started coming out more my best guess is they just ignored the OTA equipment, and as it broke down I lost the channels one at a time it seemed. By the time I moved up here, as opposed to using it as a cottage on weekends and holidays back when I was still working full time, it made sense to get a Dish. Back then (late 80's) I was paying $20 a month for about 25 channels. These days I get more channels in the basic package, I think I heard 69 channels, although if I could choose I'd probably be happy dropping 3/4 of those as useless to me to save a few dollars.. These days it's up to over $100 a month. As I said, this is their basic package, no extra cost in there for any specialty channels added. Generally Rogers (was Shaw.. was Star Choice..) gives you more for the same money than you'd get from Bell. Bell's packages are often a little cheaper at first but there are extras you'd pay more to have added if you wanted them from Bell. Some included premium type channels at no extra cost and Time Shifting so you can get a show from 3 or 4 different time zones each day instead of just one, separate feeds from the West coast to the East coast. --- * SLMR Rob * User Friendly: Requires two or more users to operate * Origin: capitolcityonline.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/HTTP (1:2320/105) .