Re: KING 5 (NBC) Seattle Off Air!


Tam/WB2TT wrote:
"Charles Tomaras" <tomaras@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Karl appears to be saying that dumping the NTSC OTA signal will lose too
many viewers who "pay the bills" for the station and they will go under
without their viewing numbers as he rightfully doesn't believe at this
point in time they will go out and buy STB's to downconvert the digital
OTA signal.

There are a couple of brodcast engineers who have commented on this string.
So, tell me if I am wrong. My educated guess is that:

A) Cameras are digital
B) Studio editing equipment is digital
C)Studio to transmitter link is digital (of unknown to us format)
D)OTA analog signal is derived from digital

If this is not true, why the hell isn't it.

Tam

One word. MONEY! A Panasonic D-5 HD digital deck goes for over $100K.
Guess what. You don't see a lot of them at stations, particularly small
stations (if ANY) and you WILL see analog machines still in use. I know
of a PBS station using Digital S (VHS family) machines on air and I'm
sure there are many more. People wanted their gazillion channels but
forgot where the programming came from.

A TV station used to be a license to print money but with cable and
satellite, those bucks get spread around a LOT. Don't be so hard on
them.

GG

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