Keep TV Free

Canada's TV networks are out to create a second class of Canadians: the 11 million people in smaller cities and towns who will soon lose the ability to watch FREE TV. If you live in a smaller community, your only option will be to pay for cable or satellite while Canadians in major cities will continue to have free TV. Take action! Tell them you don't agree.

Canada's TV networks are out to create a second class of Canadians: the 11 million people in smaller cities and towns who will soon lose the ability to watch FREE TV.

If you live in a smaller community, your only option will be to pay for cable or satellite while Canadians in major cities will continue to have free TV.

Take action! Tell them you don't agree.

This is bad policy at a time when people are looking to lower their monthly costs and connect to what is going on in their community, their country and the world. Television -- local, regional and national -- is one thing that knits the country together and should be accessible in all parts of the country, regardless of whether viewers can afford or choose to pay a monthly fee.

Stations in the smaller cities and towns could use new digital technology to improve over-the-air TV service with more channels and a better picture.

But TV networks like Global, CTV and CBC simply want to cut their own costs and force you to pay ever-increasing cable or satellite bills.

Right now, these networks are fighting with the cable and satellite companies in a major advertising campaign involving hundreds of millions of dollars. The networks are telling you to support local television by asking cable and satellite providers to hand over some profits. In the other corner, cable and satellite providers are trying to convince you that the networks are just trying to charge you a TV tax.

But who is in your corner? No matter the outcome of the clash of the TV titans, they don't tell you that 11 million Canadians are set to lose access to free, local, over-the-air television -- forcing them to cable, satellite or darkness.

Take action:
http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/O12guap1CQ1N/