CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C. – The Supreme Court of British Columbia has ordered Shaw Communications to restore the TV signals to Campbell River TV.
Due to an acrimonious dispute over digital cable set top boxes, outlined in several stories here on www.cartt.ca throughout this week, Shaw (which owns both the microwave system feeding CRTV its distant U.S. broadcast signals and Cancom, which feeds the cable co-op its U.S. and Canadian specialty services) turned off most of the TV channels of CRTV customers.
CRTV immediately sought a court order and this morning, the court ordered Shaw to “restore to the Plaintiff and continue to provide television, video and/or audio signals to the Plaintiff in accordance with the terms of the Cancom/CCSA [Canadian Cable Systems Alliance] Master Affiliate Transport Agreement , the Cancom/CCSA Superstation Master Affiliate Agreement and the Memorandum of Understanding, dated October 1st, 2000 between CCSA and Cancom.”
The court also ordered Shaw to turn on the microwave signal, too.
Shaw has seven days to apply to vary the court order.
Shaw president Peter Bissonnette was not immediately available for comment as many from the company are in Nova Scotia for tomorrow’s funeral for board member and cable pioneer Charlie Keating.
