Radio is by AM. Both CBC and Okalakatiget Society have transmitters in the 10 watt range. Am because there are lots of cabins in outlying Island and bays and when people there they like to hear the weather forecast, plus other shows.
Telephone is operated by Aliant. They supply the dial up internet and the high speed broadband as well.
Signals run through the usual wires, strung on the hydro poles in town, up to a control center where it is digitized and sent down to Goose Bay by a series of micro wave towers.
We are well served in the communications field over all, better than many rural areas in the south, no cell though.
TV is by two free through air channels, CBC and APTN. Cable by Persona, satellite TV by Bell ExpressVu or Star Choice. Majority of homes have satellite TV most use ExpressVu.
No local transmission of TV. Okalakatiget Society tapes all their programs and these are shown on APTN.
1 comment:
Mahalo, Brian.
Very interesting.
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