Shut Off

Reviews / Votes

"Evoking the spirit of Graham Spry whose advocacy ensured the funding of public broadcasting eighty years ago, Taylor's book is a convincing argument to maintain this ethos of communication technologies for the public good in our digital era." Leslie Regan Shade, Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University "Shut Off is a tale of missed opportunities, well told by an author who has a sound grip of the issues and knows the terrain and the actors involved well. Taylor is to be commended for writing such a high quality and readable account of Canada's less than sure-footed path to digital television." Dwayne Winseck, School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University "Gregory Taylor precisely and expertly summarizes the analog conversion and makes a very logical and plausible prognosis about future Canadian developments in the world of wireless transmissions. Anyone wanting to fully understand the debate over the auction of the spectrum, (freed up by the digital television transition), would be well advised to read this book." Konrad von Finckenstein, former CRTC chair "Gregory Taylor's well-researched and thought-provoking text is a timely and relevant intervention in critical Canadian broadcasting policy and regulation studies ... [for] any participant in the broadcasting policy process in Canada and abroad." Journal of "... a timely and critical contribution to a growing collection of scholarly works on digital media transitions. The book is especially important, considering that most transitions from analogue to digital media appear to be "seamless" and occur "under the