[BC] DTV Transition Wrinkle

[Mark W. Croom]

I am somewhat curious about this myself. I do not subscribe to cable
television service, and of 5 channels I receive at my home most of the time,
three of them are translator stations. I can't cleanly decode closed
captioning on those signals because they are relatively noisy.

After the cutover date I'm probably going to be down to two stations, a CBS
affiliate and a public TV station. Maybe I'll just have to put up enough
antenna to get the ABC station that's down the road apiece. 

Or not. We don't watch much TV anyway; the DTV transition could cure us once
and for all.

Mark
MN

---------- Original Message -----------
From: k7vor at aol.com
To: broadcast at radiolists.net
Cc: K7VOR at aol.com
Sent: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:02:05 -0500
Subject: [BC] DTV Transition Wrinkle

> ? No one has been providing an answer to the question of
> whether TV translators will be converted to DTV by the February
> 2009 cutover date -- or if they ever will be switched to DTV.
> It's a costly process, and some stations may not view the switch
> worthwhile because translator viewing has decreased as cable and
> satellite penetrations have increased.