[opendtv] Local TV stations face uncertain future
- From: "Dale Kelly" <dalekelly@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "OPENDTV" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:23:13 -0800
From Broadcast Engineering:
http://broadcastengineering.com/news/local-stations-face-uncertain-future-02
23/
> Last December, CBS' chief executive, Leslie Moonves, told an investor
conference that moving the CBS network to cable would be "a very interesting
proposition." Two days earlier, Jeff Zucker, chief executive of NBC
Universal, warned that the entire broadcast TV model must change. <
DUH!
This has been the major Networks alternate business plan for about eight
years and those of you who have been on this list that long will recall my
oft-repeated prediction of such an eventual outcome.
The "shot heard around the world" precipitating this likely outcome was the
ATSC receivers very poor performance achieved during Sinclair's 1999
ATSC/COFDM tests. Given such bad news the Networks recognized the need for
alternative business plans.
IMO, had the second generation receivers resolved the reception issue as
promised, this plan B may have never been pursued to this outcome.
Dale
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