[opendtv] Re: PR: Consumers in 39 Million U.S. Households Cannot Receive Complete Network Digital Service
- From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 12:04:06 -0700
The sponsor is EchoStar. Supplying phony or even fraudulent data to courts
and the FCC is par of the course for them -- they were caught in the Florida
Federal Court case that CBS brought against them.
They didn't give up until they had besmirched the reputations of many of
their consultants. Gonna be much harder to find whores this time around.
John Willkie
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Subject: [opendtv] Re: PR: Consumers in 39 Million U.S. Households
Cannot Receive Complete Network Digital Service
>From: Doug McDonald <mcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:09:38 -0500
>
>
>At least for Illinois, those maps are highly inaccurate,
>especially for CBS.
>
>The show what it would be if every station were at full
>height and power, and CBS Chicago were at an adequate power
>for being on Channel 3 (i.e. 50 kW).
>
>CBS in Chicago, Champaign and Peoria are at very low power (2 kW),
>channels 3 and 48 and ?. None is anywhere near adequate, though
>Chicago is officially "full power", to cover their analog areas.
These maps are also highly inaccurate for Arizona, especially ABC, but in
the opposite sense. They show no ABC coverage at all for Phoenix. Our local
ABC affiliate, KNXV-DT, has been on the air since early 2000. The map shows
only the coverage area for the Tucson ABC affiliate, KGUN-DT, which went on
the air much later than the Phoenix affiliate.
Whether either or both of these stations are at full power, I don't know.
But I do know people who live in the outermost southeastern suburbs of
Phoenix that are able to watch BOTH stations with OTA receivers -- so the
ABC coverage of both Phoenix and Tucson is far greater than zero.
The so-called "data" from this organization claims that over 77% of Arizona
households are unserved by ABC digital, but 80% of Arizona's population
lives in the Phoenix or Tucson metro areas and are served by one or both of
these ABC DTV affiliates.
The www.iwantmyhdtv.com web site is obviously sponsored by one of the
satellite TV lobbying organizations, and that's fine. But trying to advance
a political agenda by feeding the FCC bogus data is just plain wrong --
whether it's the NAB, the satellite industry, etc. that is manufacturing
this garbage.
There is already enough misinformation about DTV for the commissioners --
and the general public -- to deal with.
-- Frank
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