Global Television/E! Canada to launch HD transmitters in the GTA and Vancouver

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Canwest Broadcasting launches three new high definition transmitters in major Canadian markets

 

TORONTO, April 10 /CNW/ - Canwest Broadcasting announced today it will

launch three new digital transmitters in Ontario and B.C. on April 18. Global

Ontario, Global BC and E! Ontario will broadcast their programming in High

Definition (HD) as of this date. Television service providers within the

footprint of each transmitter will carry these services and provide

simultaneous substitution of the US HD signals.

Over 25 primetime hits from House to The Office, from Brothers and

Sisters to Bones, from Rules of Engagement to How I Met Your Mother, plus

event television including PGA Golf and Wimbledon, will be broadcast in

glorious HD in these major markets. This timely HD development follows smartly

on the heels of ET Canada's milestone as the first domestic daily

entertainment show broadcast in HD.

"The digital transmitters are launching just as new episodes of our

viewer favourites return to the networks. We are offering our viewers the best

programming via the best quality broadcast signals," said Barbara Williams,

Executive Vice President, Content, Canwest Broadcasting.

Global Television and E! are Canwest Broadcasting networks.

 

About Canwest Broadcasting:

Canwest Broadcasting operates two conventional television networks,

Global Television and E!, and twenty-one of the country's most popular

specialty channels, including HGTV, Mystery TV, National Geographic Channel,

Showcase, Slice and TVtropolis. Canwest Broadcasting is a division of

Canwest Media Inc.

 

About Canwest Media Inc.

Canwest Media Inc is a subsidiary of Canwest Global Communications Corp.

(http://www.canwest.com; TSX: CGS and CGS.A).

An international media company, Canwest is Canada's largest publisher of

paid English language daily newspapers and owns, operates and/or holds

substantial interests in conventional television, out-of-home advertising,

specialty cable channels, web sites and radio stations in Canada, New Zealand,

Australia, Turkey, Indonesia, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United

States.

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Wow, Canada is way behind on the digital TV thing. Any word on when they will shut off Analog TV signals there?

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August 2011.

 

Canada didn't get as much of a heads up as the United States in terms of a deadline, so now a lot of the big broadcasters are scrambling to broadcast in high definition.

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Just to add... from another thread at digitalhome.ca, viewers and HDTV aficionados alike are loving CHAN-DT (Global BC HD's signal) because the signal quality is much better compared to CBUT-DT (CBC HD) and CIVT-DT (CTV 9 HD).