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A national TV dream, in High Def

GRANT ROBERTSON

From Friday's Globe and Mail

Canada's television landscape could be on the verge of its biggest shakeup in years if a bid to launch a new national network – broadcasting from coast to coast in high definition – is approved by federal regulators in early 2008. Details of an application by HDTV Networks Inc., a company backed by fast food and satellite radio investor John Bitove, were made public Thursday by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).

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