[BC] DTV Signal penetration

[Larry Wood]

Rob, I agree with you but...

TV stations spent millions of dollars drumming their channel numbers into their viewer's heads and they weren't about to give that up. We are a dual licensee and if you ask most our audience what they watch/listen to, the TV watchers say channel 9 and the radio listeners say KQED. (Our actual TV channel is 30.) I too would like to see at least fine print when a TV station IDs itself as to what channel it is really on. And don't get me started on ATSC 3.0, but many of the channels will be changing again.

Cheers,

Larry Wood, CPBE
KQED-FM

I wish TV stations were required to identify the channels they are actually on, instead of the ones their analog predecessors used to use.

Can you imagine WBZ radio moving from 990 to 1030 in 194(2, was it?) yet continuing to say "WBZ 990" on the air years later?

I occasionally have people come to me complaining that they can't get "Channel 5" any more ever since it went digital. Well, it's not even on the VHF band now; you need a UHF antenna. "Oh, really?"