How does this sort of thing work? Can you just pick up the phone and call whoever's still got 40 and ask them their intentions? Or is there some long daisy chain involved?
- Tom John Shutt wrote:
According to the linked story, the delay passed the Senate unanimously. Is there any doubt that it will get a majority in the House? Is there any doubt that Obama will sign it?We are currently on Digital 55. Our final digital is 40. We shut down our Analog 23 on January 13th, so we could convert it to a Digital channel 40 transmitter. However, we cannot actually move to 40 until other broadcasters also move.Is this bill only for those analogs that can stay on without causing interference to others, (such as out of core analogs) and mandating that the rest of the frequency switches occur? Or is this bill essentially a "continue the status quo" until June? We've already dismantled our analog transmitter beyond the point of no return, in the process of making it a channel 40 digital transmitter.John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Miller" <robmxa@xxxxxxxxx> To: "opendtv" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 9:02 AM Subject: [opendtv] DTV Delay BillSeems the Senate bill allows broadcasters to shut down at will after the February deadline and before the new June 12th deadline. What percentage of broadcasters will? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28863961/wid/11915829/?GT1=43001 I thought that the Obama call to delay the transition was a fig leaf effort so that his administration could say that they did what they could. I didn't think it would even come up for a vote. But this bill could be the same thing. It allows Congress and the administration to both claim that they did what they could while blaming broadcasters, who might be hurting bad enough in the present economic climate, to scuttle the effort by turning off their analog transmitters in February anyway. Bob Miller ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways:- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org- By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways:- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.
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