Canadian Heritage committee  At this time I'll make reference to.... Two hours south of Kamloops is the city of Kelowna. At the same time that Kamloops lost its CBC over-the-air because of a disaffiliation application from the local broadcaster, Kelowna experienced the same disaffiliation application from it

Canadian Heritage committee  The reality is that when the CBC went off the air, a significant number of people had to buy cable packages in order to access the CBC. It's entirely possible that the CBC felt it could get away with dropping over-the-air service to Kamloops--without any sort of objection from Ka

Canadian Heritage committee  In answer to that question about what would happen if the CBC was gone tomorrow, it is gone in our community. What we have now, if we drift past the television and we turn it on, is a constant barrage of Botox, liposuction, gunfights, things that aren't part of my community or mo

Canadian Heritage committee  I'd like to take this opportunity to express our delight to be presenting to you this afternoon. My name is Pam Astbury. I am a civil engineer and president of Save Our CBC Kamloops. With me is David Charbonneau, a retired electronics instructor from Thompson Rivers University in

Canadian Heritage committee  My name is Pam Astbury. I'm the president of Save Our CBC Kamloops. With me is David Charbonneau, who is also a member of our group. We are here today to speak on the loss of over-the-air CBC in Kamloops, which is the first city in Canada, as we understand it, to have lost over