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Shut off : the canadian digital television transition / Gregory Taylor.

by Taylor, Gregory.

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Mcgill-Queens Universuty Press, 2013.

621.38807 T241s

Digital television -- Canada.

Digital television -- Government policy -- Canada.

Television broadcasting policy -- Canada.

Digital communications -- Government policy -- Canada.

9780773540491 (pbk.)

xii, 216 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-199) and index.

Introduction: Please Adjust Your Set -- 1. Detours along the Way -- 2. Early Policy Development in Canada and the United States -- 3. The Global Transition -- 4. Broadcasting Distribution Undertakings -- 5. Over-the-Air Broadcasting -- 6.Other Voices -- Conclusion: Paying Dividends.

"The technology, institutional players, and the policies that have shaped Canada's switch from analogue to digital television broadcasting. How digital television is part of a global media movement. It is about more than television - the digital transition is also a precursor for new developments in mobile digital media. The wireless spectrum freed by the move to digital television is a multi-billion dollar public resource, whose auction is impending. How digital broadcasting has been the site of dramatic change in the political economy of Canadian media, and the market-driven process through which the still incomplete transition has unfolded. Issues such as equal access and television as a public good, highlighting public and institutional actors in the policy process to provide an analysis of government and industry. A timely assessment of a period of technological and economic upheaval in Canadian broadcasting"--Provided by publisher.

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