[opendtv] Re: Echostar make or break
- From: Barry Brown <barrysb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 23:21:32 -0400
On Sep 5, 2006, at 10:53 PM, John Willkie wrote:
If you have that documentation, I'd love to see it.
I note you didn't answer my question about whether the New York and
Los Angeles stations provide more local programming for your
community than do the stations closest to you. Do the distant
stations provide you with Emergency Alert Notices (severe weather,
Amber alerts, etc.) more appropriate to your area? Do the
commercials that New York and Los Angeles station air have a higher
percentage of spots for your tourist mecca than the smattering on
the closest stations?
You are unhappy, it appears, that your remote touristy area isn't
big enough to support a truly local station. Your workaround won't
fix that; it will make providing a local service more difficult
than it already is. You might want to contact Woody at Resort
Broadcasting and see how easy or difficult it is to make a go of
such a model. You could even file for a construction permit for a
Low Power Television station, TV translator or TV booster to serve
your area.
You seem to have the impression that I'm anti-local. This is not the
case. I'd be very happy to watch and support local stations if they
provided good local programming involving all parts of my DMA. I'm
not wanting an LPTV to serve my area, but a couple of super stations
providing 24/7 local programming would best serve our entire metro
area including my community. Instead, we have about 8 stations
providing network or syndicated programming and a bit of local
programming 3 times a day, covering all the bad news there is to find.
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