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Digital Cutover To Be Delayed ? ? ?

thathoustonradiogeek said:
Scott:

How soon after the cutover will the stations start dismounting the old analog antennae and replacing them with digital ones? How long will it take? I hope it's in a weekend so I can drive to Missouri City and snap some photos. BTW, doesn't MO. City look like a Tower Site Calendar candidate? ;) ;)
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It sure does - and one of these winters I'll get down there and get some good pictures!

The answer to your first question is - "it depends." It's really a station-by-station and tower-by-tower decision depending on what the station's interim and permanent channels turned out to be, when tower crews are available, and in some cases whether or not the station management was comfortable going to reduced analog power or a standby antenna before the transition date. Some stations already have their final digital facilities on the air and are limping along to the end of analog from a backup antenna; others haven't even started building their final facilities. Best to get to know your local chief engineers and get them to keep you posted...
 
the problem as usual is with the human element and not the technology per-se.
You have to think about the bottom 10% of non-early adapters that you are
dealing with here.
 
RE: TECHNICAL ISSUES

There are 7 Digital Stations NOT Boradcasting in the DFW area. I called and was told since a week ago that there were technical issues with the antenna that delivers the digital signal for TBN locally. Also, that antenna is shared with two other stations, The Daystar TV Network, and the Promiseland TV Network.

So the 5 Digital channels of TBN, and the other 2 Digital Networks, ---- I have not been able to receive them for over a week now.

Though the "analog" signals are being broadcast now....

BUT, the Digital converter I purchsed does NOT pass thru analog signals.

AND, Daystar, moved from the basic tier on cable to a higher tier, so I only can watch the analog signal for TBN and Promiseland.

AFTER the Digital cutover, and ANALOG transmissions are NO MORE.... WHENEVER that happens.... I am just wondering what "technical difficluties" might then occur ...that are going to limit what I can watch, over-the-air, and by cable ......

Fun in TV Land
 
the Obama transition team today made a SECOND REQUEST to move the
cutover date to June 12. Outgoing FCC chairman Kevin Martin continues
to resist. The political brinksmanship being displayed here is starting to
get really interesting!
 
KML-224: Yes. I think it was supposed to take place in 1999, although I can't find a source for that date.
 
But only in markets where 85% of the household could receive the digital signals. The thinking of Congress and the industry in 2006 was that without the hard deadline, the conversions might never have been completed.
 
Washington, DC – Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D-WV), incoming Chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, has authored legislation that would delay the upcoming digital television transition (DTV). The delay provides consumers who have been bogged down by the confusing bureaucracy time to prepare, protects public safety, and gives the incoming Obama Administration time to make sure that no Americans are left in the dark.

http://rockefeller.senate.gov/press/record.cfm?id=306824&
 
robmadden1 said:
Washington, DC – Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D-WV), incoming Chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, has authored legislation that would delay the upcoming digital television transition (DTV). The delay provides consumers who have been bogged down by the confusing bureaucracy time to prepare, protects public safety, and gives the incoming Obama Administration time to make sure that no Americans are left in the dark.

http://rockefeller.senate.gov/press/record.cfm?id=306824&
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I feel left in the digtal darkness with no HD TV....

Maybe Barack could inusre a flatscreen HD TV in every home......

ala Fahrenheit 451 or THX 1138 .... Take your Pick :D
 
Just create a national (government funded and operated) Cable TV company, give us all free Cable TV, and be done with it.
What's so hard about that? ;D
 
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