That particular number you were just quoting was taken from my talk. It was the fact that since the seventies and eighties, before satellite was available and when there wasn't cable in rural areas, a lot of rural communities had the gumption to stick up their own transmission towers and negotiate with signal providers from big cities to bring channels into their own communities. For example, in Valemount, B.C., where there's actually a community channel as well, one of our members brings in three remote radio channels and six remote TV channels. They rebroadcast it from a tower over the air and they charge people out of the tax base. It comes out to about $40 a year. That includes paying a coordinator to offer a community channel. A community of 1,500 has community TV. This is something that can also be used for offering wireless broadband in rural communities that are also likely to be left behind by the commercial system.
On March 2nd, 2011. See this statement in context.