Bell adds seven community-owned channels to satellite lineup

OTTAWA – Bell has added seven community-owned and operated TV channels to its basic satellite lineup. As a result, Canadians in rural communities in B.C., Manitoba, the Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and New Brunswick can now see community channels in their area. That’s great news to Ed Christie in Harvey, York County, NB, where cable distribution was cut in 2009. “We used to operate a community channel out of our high school." Since 2009, Christie said, “there’s been no community TV channel providing regular coverage to this area, except in St. Andrews, 100 kilometres away. But we were beyond the...