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UPDATE #3: B.C. Supreme Court orders Shaw to turn CRTV signals back on

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...