Only 29 cities are on the CRTC list of communities that must get free over-the-air TV after the transition to digital in 2011. If you live in a smaller community, your only option will be to pay for cable or satellite while Canadians in major cities will continue to have free TV.

Among the areas to be cut off altogether from free TV signals are Northern Ontario and the interior of British Columbia.

If you live in Manitoba, but outside of the Winnipeg area, you are out of luck.

If you live in Nova Scotia, but not in Halifax, you will be cut off.

Same for those outside of St. John's in Newfoundland and outside of Regina and Saskatoon in Saskatchewan.

And unless you live in Iqaluit, Yellowknife or Whitehorse, you will lose your free signals in the North.