[BC] HDTV rollout wrinkle

[Dana Puopolo]

AGAIN I say.....

Low band VHF is by far the WORST place to run DTV. The CE of that station-and
anyone else involved in making the DUMB decision to stay on channel 6 should
be summarily FIRED for incompetance-ESPECIALLY where it's now been proven that
there IS a UHF channel where they can go. The FCC should not help out stations
that make DUMB decisions!

-D

-----Original Message-----

 From: Reader

Philadelphia's Channel 6 got angry viewers and bad press during the 
transition to digital only transmission. Over the past weekend, it 
quadrupled its TV signal.

The FCC granted an STA for six months, but the station will seek 
permission to make it permanent.

One columnist writes "The weekend's action confirmed that the FCC 
underestimated the necessary digital-signal strength in engineering 
models. Those models, experts have said, were based on outdoor 
antennas, which many homeowners in the Philadelphia area lack. 
(<http://www.philly.com/philly/business/homepage/20090622_Channel_6_quad
ruples__signal_to_improve_reception.html>more)"