[opendtv] Out of market coverage

Craig Birkmaier wrote:

> There you go again. The discussion was about the NBC
> and CBS affiliates in Wilmington and the changes in
> their coverage as a result of moving to digital.

Sigh. Maybe that was as far as you took it. My comment was that it's good to 
see that the FCC worries, or at least considers, out of market viewers. As 
stated here:

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-285330A1.pdf

"A significant number of calls (232) were related to the viewer’s inability to 
locate the Wilmington NBC affiliate. Prior to the digital switch, the 
Wilmington NBC affiliate signal was available to viewers outside the television 
market as far south as Myrtle Beach, SC and as far north as Raleigh, NC. The 
Wilmington NBC affiliate’s new coverage area does not include these out of 
market communities. Some of these complaints were from these viewers who will 
continue to receive their local NBC affiliates in Myrtle Beach and Raleigh. The 
Commission is continuing to work with those residents who have unresolved 
reception problems."

> If we want a market based system,

Who's this "we," Craig?

My fellow OTA TV viewers and I can assure you that we don't give a tinker's 
damn about "TV market." What we want is the maximum choice. I don't doubt that 
broadcasters would prefer not to have overlapping patterns. So what?

Since Wilmington OTA lacks local MNT, CW, and PBS OTA broadcasters, and since 
viewers from markets adjacent to (or even quite far from) Wilmington were 
apparently capable of receiving at very least that one Wilmington station, 
let's do a "huge" leap of logic here.

Do you suppose that some of these Wilmington viewers are also going out of 
market, to get those three missing networks? Do you suppose that after analog 
shutoff in those other markets, Wilmington OTA users might also miss some of 
those distant networks, if the affiliates also change their coverage patterns?

Bert

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