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[Broadcast List USER]

CORRECT, mostly.

Except imagine the somewhat technical person, who doesn't have the  
memo.  He wants to get Channel 4, but he doesn't know the secret.  He  
goes to Rat Shack and gets a VHF antenna.  He hooks it up, and it  
doesn't work well.

Sadly, most of the TV station's web sites don't have any real  
information on this on them, and some are just STUPID, as well as  
some of their on the air reporting.  Recall the video for the Channel  
10 station!

Their DT is above 50, and they plan to return to 10 on June 12.  YET,  
they are telling the public to tune them in on 52, as I recall.  They  
are not giving out information on "step 2," and people may just buy  
UHF antennas for DTV.  OUCH.

If it were just an issues of PSIP, and everyone was going to UHF (as  
it should have been, and was done in England), fine.  BUT, people  
need to buy antennas, because, no matter what the FCC says, rabbit  
ears have to go away and make way for roof antennas.  I get NTSC at  
my house using an attic antenna.  I don't get a single DTV signal.   
Not one.

--chip

On Mar 2, 2009, at 3:36 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 16
> From: Craig Bowman <craig1 at shianet.org>
>
> That is not the way it works. The PSIP tells the TV which channel to
> display the video on.  You can be transmitting on Channel 42 but  
> the TV
> displays you on 4.1
>
> Craig Bowman
>
> Cowboy wrote:
>
>>  And this is just silly !
>>
>>  "Mom, what channel is channel 4 ?"
>>  "I think channel 4 is on channel 13, or 31, or maybe channel 17 ?"
>>  "So, what channel is channel 17 ?"
>>
>> On Monday 02 March 2009 12:29 am, Broadcast List USER wrote:
>>
>>>  Nearly EVERY TV station is going to continue to use their existing
>>>  "branding" even if they change channels.  NBC-4 in Washington is
>>>  going to remain NBC-4 (WRC) as an example.  They will be on 48  
>>> after
>>>  the analog shut off.  This is repeated all over the country,
>>>  especially for low-band analog stations.