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The NCTA (National Cable Television Association) is against a hard cut-off date for 1.0. Pay TV Groups Rebut NAB's ATSC 3.0 Transition Plans If Broadcasters use any portion of the spectrum for anything other than free, over the air TV, it would be a violation the Communication Act. At least...

Yep. So much for that whole "public airwaves" thingy. I wonder if Sarnoff and Payley are rolling over in their graves. ;)

Paywall. But here's what I got from the Brave browser AI: SpaceX is reportedly considering going public through a merger with EchoStar, an alternative to a traditional initial public offering (IPO), as the company prepares for a potential listing in 2026 or 2027. This unconventional path could...

Well, there is this from the proposal: "We seek comment on whether providers should instead display on the label the aggregate amount of such fees." So, you would still see the total amount of the fees, just not broken out into a list of each one. Seems reasonable to me.

This does not surprise me. I was thinking about buying a day pass on Sling once or twice this fall for football on ESPN. As well, maybe Sling day passes for bowl games on New Years Day and the championship game later in January. $20 for all four, beats at least $60 for two months (or more) of...

I had a WISP that sold me 25MB service (The government's then minimum for broadband.) that was actually 18 to 22MB on weekdays and 8 to 11 MB during prime time. All for the low low price of only 100 bucks a month. No cables and none of the 5g's will sell me home internet. I'm 10 miles from the...

Does the current version of Showtime have more than just movies, or is it just a dumb place to put the tab? I'm guessing the latter. ;)

Just now 11:00 AM Pacfic: 145Mbps Down, 11.9 up. Latency 25ms. Eastern Washington. I've seen it as low as 48Mbps down in the evenings and as high as 297Mbps down during the day. Latency pretty consistent at 23 to 30ms.

Wow. They no longer own the Peanut Gallery. They are in trouble!

From what you described, It looks like the Dish spot insertion system placed those ads on the wrong channel, especially since they replaced 60 seconds of the movie you were watching. Both of those look like national spots, so perhaps they didn't need to be downloaded to Hoppers and the other...

Does this mean the end of the local channel monopoly? I so, good. Way past time for that particular grift to end.

LOL. This is like the good old days, when I got yelled at by the M & E Police for subscribing to the Canadian Bell TV service. They reminded me of Dana Carvey's Church Lady moralizing on SNL. I was unapoligetic then and now for that 'sin'.

Dish already knows this. Since I cancelled in December '22, like clockwork every 60 days I get an offer that includes a $500 credit. I left because the programming I watch is for the most, part gone from satellite and cable. As enticing as 500 bucks sounds, even free wouldn't do it if there's...

My Dad installed a 60 foot tower in '65 (We lived near the South Jersey pine barrens.) so he could get those three without "snow". As a bonus, we got most of the NYC stations with the rotator pointed northeast and Baltimore DC stations with it pointed southwest. Also two channel 8's (Lancaster...

Primary. A UHF running at 1000KW. It sounded like it was out of phase somehow. The center channel was mixing into the other channels making the dialogue hard to hear. Also, this was only happening on CW programming. Maybe they only checked it during off network hours.