[opendtv] Re: White paper from CEA
- From: cbenham@xxxxxxxxxxx
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 15:17:15 +0000
Even more ironic, having to put an analog transmitter back on the air
to protect a digital license. What hath the FCC wrought?
As to not being able to actually receive the signal outside (?) the city of
license,
this appears more a legal and business move rather than actually trying to
provide television programs to the citizenry.
This is the age in which government and big business "says" they are doing
something about resolving a problem, when in fact they are only doing something
that "gives the appearance" of doing something about it.
> Seems it's an FCC licensing issue. Here's an e-mail from
> Don Hackler (a KCSM employee) on the HDTV-in-SFbay
>
> Permanantly turning off an analog transmitter is still a bit of a grey
> area at the FCC. We had to put a small temporary analog channel 60
> transmitter back on the air to cover our city of license (San Mateo) to
> avoid jeopardizing the digital channel 43 license in the interim.
>
> - Don
>
> I cannot receive even a hint of the 15kW transmitter at my lab in Milpitas,
> about 25 miles away (mostly an over water path across the "bottom"
> of the Bay). If they're trying to regain their audience, then it's
> not a very effective measure.
>
> Ron
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