[opendtv] Re: White paper from CEA

  • From: cbenham@xxxxxxxxxxx
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:58:44 +0000

Yep, my error.  
April 7, 2009, is a Tuesday.  I think I will stay home that day and
watch all the analog signoffs.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/14/AR2005101401960.html?nav=rss_technology


> April 7.  It was chosen specifically to be after March Madness.
> 
> TTFN,
> Mark
> 
> 
> Doug McDonald wrote:
> 
> >cbenham@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>It is going to be an amazing day, that  March 7, 2009, and I doubt the NAB,
> >>the FCC, Congress and all the TV networks and stations are going to ready 
> >>for 
> what they will be unleashing. 
> >>I can hardly wait.
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >I think you are exactly right ... but I also
> >think it will never happen. I suspect that it would not be a big
> >deal if the date were March 7, 2024.
> >
> >The right way to do this is to stagger the turnoff by money:
> >there would be an increasing license fee, year after year,
> >based on the total population inside the coverage area,
> >for each station. For NYC, say, it would reach $100,000,000
> >per station per year by say 2019.
> >
> >Doug McDonald
> > 
 
 
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