TVO to keep eight OTA transmitters after all

TORONTO – TVO has reversed course on its plan to decommission eight transmitters after the Ontario government agreed to increase funding to the provincial broadcaster.TVO said Friday that will continue to transmit over-the-air broadcast signals in Ottawa, Belleville, Thunder Bay, Chatham, Cloyne, Kitchener, London, and Windsor. The news comes less than three weeks after it announced plans to decommission transmitters in those cities this summer, a move that it claimed would save $1 million annually required to meet its "current financial targets”.“We listened to the concerns of people who rely on over-the-air transmission to enjoy TVO programming and we consulted with our...