[opendtv] Re: Community Broadcaster's Association wants converter boxes to handle analog, too!
- From: "Bob Miller" <robmxa@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:50:47 -0500
Actually we own a bit of spectrum from Auction 49 and would like to
use it so I want the deadline to stick and I was making a joke about
my emails having any affect. Face to face contact with most of the FCC
didn't do anything either.
Having spent a lot of time in DC I can believe almost anything can
happen there as long as it is illogical and perverse.
Bob Miller
On Nov 16, 2007 4:40 PM, John Willkie <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> No, they haven't delayed anything; you just got ahead of the facts. They
> tried to encourage stations with transmitters out of the core to give up
> their channels, but that was a non-starter.
>
> Nobody that I've talked to in broadcasting in the last two years thinks that
> the deadline will be extended. My customer would like that to happen, at
> least for 6 months, so he can buy up some cheap unneeded transmitters on
> Ebay.
>
> You, I believe, are confusing the unenforceable deadline (85%) with the
> first true deadline, in otherwords, a hard one.
>
> So, you think your emails will delay the transition? That's some what
> self-aggrandizing, even after the fact. And, which side are you on? It
> seems to me that your positions are internally inconsistent. Are you
> unhappy that you didn't come up with that $1,000 in time and are now trying
> to keep others from using their sandbox?
>
> No Bob, you are deluded; all the congresscritters care about is spending the
> money. Note again my comment on the budget.
>
> John Willkie
>
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En
> nombre de Bob Miller
> Enviado el: Friday, November 16, 2007 1:28 PM
> Para: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Asunto: [opendtv] Re: Community Broadcaster's Association wants converter
> boxes to handle analog, too!
>
>
> Your right, there will not be time. The January auction will not be
> done till August when final payment by winning bidders will be due.
> September to February will not be enough time to delay this thing.
>
> Google looks to be in big time as of today. Other media companies as
> well and a bit of inside stuff says that AT&T is going to be there as
> well planning on "broadcasting". Remember that in 2000 when this
> auction was supposed to take place the predictions were for a take of
> $100 Billion. UK and Germany came in just before the US auction was
> canceled at $35 and $45 Billion which prompted the $100 Billion US
> estimate. Now pundits are talking of $15 Billion sans 54, 55 and 59
> but I would be surprised at anything less than $50 Billion.
>
> Inflation since 2000 would make the UK's $35 Billion $44 Billion and
> Germany's $45 Billion $55 Billion and a possible US $100 Billion $120
> Billion. Subtract 54, 55 and 59 and the "NEW RULES" proposed by Google
> for the "C" block and you still have $75 Billion. $50 Billion should
> be conservative.
>
> Why do I think they might delay the end of analog broadcasting again?
> Because they can, have done so a number of times in the recent past,
> three or four times including 2000 on this spectrum alone, and because
> any number of things could happen that could give them an excuse.
>
> For example someone on the "Hill" could read one of the many emails I
> have sent to them all and realize that the whole transition is headed
> for disaster and decide to stop it on a dime and revisit the whole
> thing. That could happen right?
>
> Bob Miller
>
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