Be careful with DTV deadlines: O'Farrell

OTTAWA – Canadian regulators should think long and hard before setting a digital OTA television transition deadline as has been done in the States, says Canadian Association of Broadcasters president and CEO Glenn O'Farrell. O'Farrell was responding to a story in Cartt.ca on Monday which quoted Industry Canada's assistant deputy minister Michael Binder as saying such a deadline should he set in Canada.The American analog shut off date of February 17, 2009 is thought of by many down south as set in stone, but Federal Communications Commission commissioner Michael Copps, just last week at the National Association of Broadcasters annual...