OTTAWA – CBC/Radio-Canada is looking for buyers for its surplus transmission assets after pulling the plug on its analog over the air network earlier this summer.
The national broadcaster said that the assets include the land, transmission towers, analog TV transmission equipment, and related buildings at 100 different sites across the country. While 607 transmitters were shut down on July 31, only a small portion of the sites at which those transmitters were located are now for sale. Many of the decommissioned transmitters were operating at sites where the CBC/Radio-Canada was leasing space from another company, while others are located at sites that it owns, but will continue to use for its radio and/or digital television signals.
All proceeds from the sales – along with the $10 million in operating costs that CBC said it anticipates saving as a result of the shut down – will be used to support the creation of Canadian programming. Capital Canada Ltd. is managing the sales process.
