Mr. Sheehan Carter at the Canadian Heritage Committee

On May 2nd, 2019. See this statement in context.

May 2nd, 2019 / 4:10 p.m.

Director, Television Programming, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission

I'll talk about cable numbers, or what we call BDUs.

Five years ago the cable penetration rate was closer to 85% in English-language markets. It's now about 71%. That's just cable penetration. Of course, you have over-the-air television layered on top of that.

But yes, that's a significant change in not too long a period of time.

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