For the most part, Canadian fans won't be affected by the NASCAR Xfinity Series move to The CW in the US as TSN 1-5 will still carry all the races, starting with this Friday's night race from Bristol, while TSN+ will continue to show the practice and qualifying sessions.

 

However, if you have relied on either Fox or NBC broadcasts on their normal, over the air stations, you still have some options. 

 

If you still need an antenna to catch the stations, you will likely be out of luck if you are any where outside of southern Ontario, and even then only a few places are likely to have much success in bringing in CW stations with an antenna. 

 

The best possibilities, from the information we could source, will be:

 

Digital (UHF) 36

Virtual 23 or 23.1

 

Digital (UHF) 31

Virtual 20

 

Digital (VHF) 10

Virtual 43

 

Two other over the air stations may be possible:

Watertown, NY - WWTI-TV - Digital 50.2 (Kingston area)

Toledo, Ohio - WTVG-DT - Digital 13.2 (Windsor area)

 

If you have cable or satellite, there are a few popular options that you may already have:

 

1) Peachtree TV (Atlanta)

2) WPIX (New York)

3) KTLA (Los Angeles) 

 

These stations should be available through most major carriers. 

 

It's unlikely any of these stations will carry anything in the way of practice or qualifying, although it looks like they will have a pre-race show called "NASCAR Countdown Live" so if you have highspeed internet, your best solution is still a TSN/TSN+ subscription. While still not perfect, there have been very few issues with TSN+ lately. 

 

This is likely not a 100% comprehensive list, but all I could find at this point, if you know of any other stations, let us know in the comments, or on any of our social media posts.

 

I haven't relied on over-the-air TV in the digital TV age, so these are a couple of the definitions used to explain the station types, to help find them:

 

Digital terrestrial television (DTTV, DTT, or DTTB) is a technology for terrestrial television, in which television stations broadcast television content in a digital format. Digital terrestrial television is a major technological advancement over analog television, and has largely replaced analog television broadcasting, which was previously in common use since the middle of the 20th century.

 

In most telecommunications organizations, a virtual channel is a method of remapping the program number as used in H.222 Program Association Tables and Program Mapping Tables to a channel number that can be entered as digits on a receiver's remote control.

 

Often, virtual channels are implemented in digital television to help users select channels easily and in general to ease the transition from analogue to digital broadcasting. Assigning virtual channels is most common where TV stations were colloquially named after the RF channel they were transmitting on ("Channel 6 Springfield"), as was common in North America during the analogue TV era. In other parts of the world, such as Europe, virtual channels are rarely used or needed, because TV stations there identify themselves by name, not by RF channel or callsign.