Posts by kenglish

With the FCC's incentive auction and repack moving forward, many LPTV broadcasters worry about what the agency's continuing silence about their service portends Says attorney Peter Tannenwald: The FCC "is basically ignoring low-power TV,...

Broadcasters are not "obligated" to do anything except carry "some sort of programming", do an ID at the top of each hour, run an EAS Test each week, and forward a monthly test test each month, plus do a whole lot of paperwork. Yes, we...

One thing we are wondering about................ How are the older sets and converters handling this? Do they default to the Spanish now, or to the English audio? If so, can it be corrected by re-scanning?

KSL is going to try and light-up the Spanish Second-Audio channel on KSL HD 5-1 tomorrow. If all goes well, we will be passing stereo Spanish for "Music and the Spoken Word, and other LDS Church programming, starting next Sunday. We...

I love to see posts from Calaveras.... I've always said, "Every home needs two things, an air compressor and a Spectrum Analyzer".

If PBS has gone to 8PSK, that's probably the trouble. I bought the new Manhattan FTA receiver, and was thinking it included 8PSK (it does about everything else you can imagine). Looks like it doesn't. (I bought one of those Linux-based...

Did PBS take their feeds down from satellite? I used to see them on AMC-21, Ku-band. Create was on there, and was also available from Louisiana Public Broadcasting, on SES-2, but seems unreliable/weak now.

Quote:Originally Posted by Cabal0 More likely, they'll cut back on free coffee in the break rooms and downgrade to single-ply. They can't cut back on the coffee, because that's the only thing that keeps people going, on their third...

Aereo will be hard-pressed to find a spot like that for their "antennas" in the Salt Lake City market. The stations on Farnsworth Peak are ten miles from the nearest road, and they'd need to build a forty-story building to get high...

Maybe most broadcasters have been waiting for standards to be selected, and waiting to see what spectrum (if any) we will have after the never-ending shuffles from Congress and their FCC. It's much easier for a couple of huge wireless...