[opendtv] Re: Out of market coverage
- From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:01:03 -0700
Citing comments isn't considering, it's merely citing comments. To get to
consideration, you have to see how they responded to the comments. Of
course, you tend to rest your arguments on weak to non-existent evidence.
John Willkie
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De: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En
nombre de Albert Manfredi
Enviado el: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 6:53 PM
Para: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Asunto: [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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