[opendtv] Re: --FCC OKs WiFi between TV channels
- From: "John A. Limpert" <jlimpert@xxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 21:46:01 -0400
If someone nuked the local TV channels, it would probably be several days
before I noticed that fact, and I watch a fair amount of television
programming. I can't say that I would shed many tears for them. It certainly
wouldn't cause me to cancel my cable subscription.
I gave up watching local and network news a long time ago, along with the
dead tree editions of newspapers. If I want news, I go to the web or listen
to the local all-news AM radio station. If I want to watch live coverage of
some event, I turn on CNN.
If I want to be entertained or educated, there is plenty of programming
available on the non-broadcast cable channels.
People used to watch local & network OTA television programming because they
had no choice about the matter. Today, most of them do have choices, and OTA
television will have to adapt or die. Why should I watch your
channel/network?
on 5/28/04 14:04, John Willkie at johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> If you were the person responsible for "broadcasting being gone" then you
> would not live the night. You are farting into the wind. Again.
>
> If cable turned off all local TV channels, cable would quickly go out of
> business. If cable ceased to exist, people would suffer a choice of fewer
> channels, but would only notice it on the margins.
>
> You are so opposed to broadcasting, and the people that watch it (mostly
> cable viewers) that it is startling. It's contemptuous and elitist.
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