openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA | reply to amigo_boy
Re: Not a good test ...
You mean like all of the commercials and articles discussing the Feb 09 cutoff date for everyone else? If anything, this is a bad test because everyone else will still have 5 months remaining to purchase their digital receivers. |
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amigo_boy
join:2005-07-22
Tempe, AZ
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| said by openbox9  :You mean like all of the commercials and articles discussing the Feb 09 cutoff date for everyone else? If anything, this is a bad test because everyone else will still have 5 months remaining to purchase their digital receivers. The stated purpose of the test is to gauge how many people are unaware of the Feb. transition, and extrapolate those results to the rest of the nation. I think that extrapolation will be flawed because NC news will be abuzz about the Sept. cut-off *test* even more than the rest of the nation will be about the Feb. cut-off.
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systems2000
What? You Say It's Fixed. Hah
join:2001-11-29
Cyberspace
| This isn't necessarily true.
Everyday viewers of OTA television may not know who to call when the stations go off the air.
It already has happened with the CW translator station WDCA50 out of Martinsburg, WV earlier this year, when they just turned the station off one day to test why Comcast was having problems receiving their digital channel.
First, since OTA is licensed by the FCC for the benefit of the community, how can Comcast get WDCA to shut-down a translator station that has no requirement to stop transmitting in Feb. of 2009.
Second, there was no notice of the shut-down and only those who know how to use the FCC website to get contact information to WDCA will complain (there were seven of us according to the broadcast engineer I talked to).
Third, the WDCA translator transmitter served many viewers up and down the I-81 corridor from VA to PA and now there is no CW service for most OTA viewers within this area now.
Fourth, I was told they would turn the transmitter back on in a couple of days and include a scroll across the screen asking those who were viewing the station to contact WDCA, which never happened because the transmitter has not been reactivated.
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