Northern Access Network was a Canadian unlicensed television system which broadcast videotaped programming to remote Canadian communities in the late 1970s.[1] Although short-lived and often in conflict with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission over its lack of a broadcast license, the service did have the effect of forcing Canada's major commercial television networks to add rebroadcast transmitters in a number of communities they had previously ignored.[2]
The service's operator, David Brough, told The Globe and Mail in 1978 that his ultimate goal was to operate five transmitters in each community: two general entertainment channels to rebroadcast content from CTV and Global, a French channel to rebroadcast content from TVA (and Radio-Canada, where that service was not already available), an educational programming service and a local community channel.[2] In actual practice, only one station was actually set up in each community, which aired either English-only or English and French programming depending on local market needs.[1]
In the Globe interview, Brough clarified that his position was that he was simply using a different technological method to deliver a service legally and ethically no different from a cable television provider.[2] The networks, however, viewed his methods as copyright infringement.[2]
^ ab"The illegal TV network in northern Ontario that tried to go legit". CBC News, 26 February 2019.
^ abcd"Hamlets in the North get flea-powered TV". The Globe and Mail, 6 January 1978.
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