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My opinion is the TV stations just need to use their call letters and stop using the channel number ID since the channel number no longer means anything truthful. The TV stations that are able to keep broadcasting on VHF (in digital) are lucky. It takes far less power to broadcast an effective...

That's a stereotype. According to the latest figures from Nielsen, people over the age of 55 are actually the best prepared for the DTV transition. The group who is least prepared for the DTV transition: people under the age of 35. One key reason supporting that surprising fact is older people...

Stations turning on a "night light" basically leave their analog TV signal active for another 30 days, but the programming on it is replaced with a static slate informing viewers about channel's programming being digital only and where they can look for more information about DTV. Many stations...

I think it's pretty funny how the politicians promoting this delay are doing so for the benefit of elderly people. According to a Nielsen produced map listing the top 56 TV viewing markets, people over the age of 55 are among the BEST prepared for the DTV transition! The worst? Certain people...

Our local ABC station led off the evening news announcing they were sticking with the original DTV transition date of Feb. 17. They posted a more detailed news item at their web site. The cited a local survey showing 99% of the station's viewers were ready for the switch. Apparently all the...

It will be a little difficult to put the champagne back into the bottle after popping the cork and serving it to everyone. Congress just needs to call it a day on this one. Instead, the FCC and various other interested parties just need to work on a plan to get converter boxes to citizens who...

The US Senate blocked one legislation attempt at the beginning of this month. It took 3 weeks for Senate Democrats to reach a compromise with Senate Republicans. Right now we have 20 days left until those analog signals go dark.

Hooray! :clap

And about 2 or 3 weeks just before that June 12 deadline the government will come up with another DTV deadline delay. The few million hold-outs holding onto analog TV are counting on it! And the government probably will deliver! :p

It's even more laughable that the delay is not mandatory. Basically all that does is stick the hard decision to the local TV stations. They're stuck with paying the bill to power a DTV signal and a legacy analog signal. And they're also stuck with having their phone lines flooded with angry...

You must live in a place not often hit with severe storms. Here, it doesn't matter how good a satellite system is configured. It's going to cut out during severe weather. The OTA broadcast from KFDX in Wichita Falls looks better than most cable/satellite channels. However, the station isn't...

I don't agree. First of all, I'm getting better reception with HD OTA signals than I do with digital satellite. For example, we get some really severe thunderstorms here in Oklahoma. I lose my satellite signal in those things, but haven't seen the low power OTA HD channel from KSWO channel 7 in...

I wrote Tom Cole, the US Representative for my district in Oklahoma as well as US Senators Jim Inhoffe and Tom Coburn. I asked them to vote against the delay, explaining how it would confuse the situation further and cost both large and small businesses a good amount of money. I hope they get...

I haven't heard of such a system where both the analog and DTV broadcast could co-exist within the same 6MHz space. At the very least, such a system wouldn't have been workable until the most recent advances in video compression (AVC, VC-1, etc.) were developed. NTSC needs enough bandwidth on...

I'm a little confused about this. A full power DTV channel bleeding out an existing analog channel? A regular NTSC analog broadcast channel requires a 6MHz slice of broadcast spectrum. As part of the DTV transition local broadcast stations were allotted another 6MHz channel for those DTV...

The June 12 delay, if passed, will only confuse things further and keep them confused until then. The way the deal reads, some broadcasters can go ahead and turn off their analog signals and move to new frequencies on February 17. It's a judgment call on their part and one that will be made on...

1 million watts of OTA transmission power still sounds like it would add up to one expensive electric bill.

I've been writing back and forth a bit with the General Manager of the NBC affiliate in my viewing market (Wichita Falls, TX and Lawton, OK). I live north of the Red River in Oklahoma and have had trouble picking up their old SD analog channel in the past. She let me know they recently pushed...

With only 25 days as of this writing left until the Feb. 17 deadline, the US Senate now appears close to reaching a deal to delay the DTV switch deadline to June 12. The Senate committee chairman John D. Rockefeller (D - WV) says he has won support from Kay Bailey Hutchison (R - TX), the ranking...