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Yesterday the Conservative government gave its 2013 Speech from the Throne (#SFT13).
Gregory Taylor, author of Shut Off: The Canadian Digital Television Transition, was a guest on BNN’s The Close to talk about the Throne Speech, as well as the financial impact that the “pick-and-pay price model” would have on Canadian broadcasting.
Click here to watch the interview
Digital technology has revolutionized modern television but what exactly has changed? The history of the digital transition is one of great scientific achievement, expensive failures, and significant political and industrial power struggles. In Shut Off: The Canadian Digital Television Transition, Gregory Taylor examines the technology, institutional players, and the policies that have shaped Canada’s efforts to switch from analogue to digital television broadcasting.
Taylor shows how digital television is part of a global media movement by comparing the Canadian experience with the ways in which the digital transition has been managed worldwide. Shut Off is about more than television – the digital transition is also a precursor for new developments in mobile digital media. The wireless spectrum freed by the move to digital television is a multi-billion dollar public resource, whose auction is impending. The book reveals how digital broadcasting has been the site of dramatic change in the political economy of Canadian media, and questions the market-driven process through which the still incomplete transition has unfolded. Considering wide-ranging issues such as equal access and television as a public good, Taylor highlights public and institutional actors in the policy process to provide an analysis of government and industry.
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