Digital transition pushes more Canadians to just "tune out", says report

OTTAWA – Last year’s transition to digital transmission helped to cut Canada’s over-the-air television penetration to an all-time low of just 5%, says a new report by the Media Technology Monitor (MTM). The report, entitled ‘Post-DTV Transition: Did Canadians Convert?’, found that there are now more Canadians who have opted out of television than there are those who use antennas. These “tuned-out” Canadians – people who choose to live without TV – increased from 4% to 7% of the population in just one year. The conversion from analog to digital over-the-air TV broadcasting occurred in most markets in Canada on...