Now that DTV is delayed........

[Mr. Jones]

WCHS breaks the bad news that they won't be switching until 6/12 after all:

http://www.wchstv.com/newsroom/eyewitne ... c9b8.shtml

[Big Media]

Following the lead of President Barack Obama and West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller, the parent company of WCHS-TV and WVAH-TV has decided to push back our switch to digital television.

What nonsense. The FCC refused to authorize the shut down because WSAZ beat them to the punch.

This is confusing to people in the industry. No wonder viewers are fed up and are giving up on understanding this process.

[Paradigm]

Now WTOV is saying the FCC denied their application to cutoff... I guess WTRF beat them to the punch?
http://www.wtov9.com/news/18709112/detail.html

WTRF is still running that they will switch on the 17th

[Dave Loudin]

WDTV amends its application to move DT to the WVFX tower to add digital repeaters on ch. 2 in Parkersburg and ch. 7 in Clay.

[Force Commander]

WDTV amends its application to move DT to the WVFX tower to add digital repeaters on ch. 2 in Parkersburg and ch. 7 in Clay.

I though the FCC is doing away with low VHF (2-6) for Tv due to poor digital performance on that band. So much for what I know!

[genlock]

I can't find any applications for the digital repeaters.
I am looking for tower locations.

[Dave Loudin]

Couldn't find them either. Checking under the couch cushions next.

[Force Commander]

Couldn't find them either. Checking under the couch cushions next.

I don't know why but that really struck me as funny!

50-plus markets plunge into DTV

http://www.rbr.com/tv-cable/12938.html

[genlock]

http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?list=0&facid=70592

Channel 2 at head of page, channel 7 at tail of page.

[Force Commander]

Help Calls to FCC Decreasing

http://www.tvweek.com/news/2009/02/dtv_ ... _fcc_d.php

Really? Is it possible we can take care of yourselves? Nah! Couldn't be!

[Force Commander]

Help Calls to FCC Decreasing

http://www.tvweek.com/news/2009/02/dtv_ ... _fcc_d.php

The Federal Communications Commission said calls to its digital-TV transition help lines decreased Wednesday, the day after 417 stations switched away from analog signals.

The decline may suggest that more viewers were concerned about the prospect of the DTV transition than actually had problems with the conversion. The FCC numbers don’t take into account calls to local stations.

The National Association of Broadcasters estimated that by noon Wednesday, stations on average were receiving 50 to 200 calls. It did not provide call numbers for later Wednesday, when viewers sitting down to watch prime time TV would have been impacted, potentially generating the most calls.

For TVWeek's comprehensive coverage of the digital television transition, visit the DTV Switch Navigator page.

The NAB said the number of calls “paled in comparison to the 12.4 million over-the-air only households that were in affected markets.”

Some markets, including Oklahoma City, noted higher call volume than that average.

Most stations that chose to switch on Feb. 17 made the switch at midnight Tuesday night, though Some did the switch earlier in the day. They had stuck with the original date set for the DTV switch, before Congress delayed the national switchover to June 12.

The FCC today said there were 27,764 calls to its call centers Tuesday, when relatively few stations switched during the day. On Wednesday, when most viewers would have started wrestling with their TVs, the agency reported 25,320 calls.

Informal surveys conducted before Congress changed the official switch date to June indicated nine out of 10 TV industry workers opposed the delay. The Obama administration argued that lack of readiness in some markets and an ineffective coupon program to fund purchases of analog-to-digital converter boxes necessitated the delay.

Acting FCC Chairman Michael J. Copps suggested that any disruption this week may have been minimized because most stations in larger markets pushed back their switchover.

“Thanks to the movement of the deadline, we did not have anything like the extent of disruption we would have experienced had every station in the country gone completely digital on Tuesday,” he said.

“Everyone needs to remember that this is just the end of the beginning of the DTV transition,” Mr. Copps added. “Most stations and most consumers still have the transition ahead of them. The Commission is working full-time to learn the lessons of what just happened and to revise our outreach programs and rules-of-the-road to take us to June 12.”

Really? Is it possible we can take care of yourselves? Nah! Couldn't be!