[BC] What is left for the industry to do?

[Phil Alexander]

On 18 Oct 2005 at 16:27, Barry Mishkind wrote:

> At 02:34 PM 10/18/2005, Bill Sepmeier wrote
> >Speakin' of that, Sen John McKain today came out with a plea for the 
> >FCC to mandate the end of analog TV by 2007 ... he needs the 
> >spectrum for the police and fire depts of the land, he says....
> 
>          Pretty strong lobby the law enforcement
>          has, right?
> 
>          And all those 50 kW and 100 kW carriers
>          with nothing to "say"..... 
> 

A few months ago in a bull session after a local SBE meeting the
topic came up and one of the TV guys joked that if they turned
the Tx completely off no one would notice as long as the fiber 
feeds to the cable systems stayed up.

I heard a few spots on radio about a month ago urging listeners 
to write their congress critters urging them to help "first 
responders" by moving all TV to the new (and lots of other 
favorable adjectives) digital HDTV so first responders could 
use the frequencies. Somehow, they forgot to mention that 
many of those channels are slated to be auctioned for 
business/commercial use.


Phil Alexander, CSRE, AMD
Broadcast Engineering Services and Technology 
(a Div. of Advanced Parts Corporation) 
Ph. (317) 335-2065   FAX (317) 335-9037





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