Radio / Television News

Shaw not carrying APTN’s broadcast feed for western Canada

OTTAWA – Shaw Communications won’t be carrying a third broadcast feed introduced by the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) in October 2006 to better serve western Canada, and this is causing some discrepancies in what’s on the air and the channel’s posted scheduling information. “APTN has made every reasonable effort to inform cable and satellite providers serving the western provinces of these enhancements and has made numerous requests that they discontinue use of the APTN East signal and instead provide the more appropriate APTN West signal to viewers situated west of the Manitoba/Saskatchewan border,” the broadcaster tells TV viewers in...