It is with great pleasure that I start a new thread for June, fifth in a series for viewers within reach of digital television stations in the Hampton-Newport News-Norfolk-Portsmouth market.
For the regular crew: Thanx for making this one of the strongest integrated (viewers and broadcast engineers working together) markets in the country.
For newbies, please review the previous threads (listed below) as many of the issues or questions you may have have probably been discussed in one of these threads.
Click here for the February 2002 thread,
Click here for the March 2002 thread,
Click here for the April 2002 thread and
Click here for the May 2002 thread.
Activity on the May thread was less than in April as most of the stations worked out their initial problems and settled into a operational normal. I'd like to keep these threads going as I expect and hope new viewers will be coming on line, in larger numbers, over the coming months. On June 10th there will be a press conference at WHRO's studios to announce a joint campaign by all of the areas local stations to promote DTV in this market. This will be an informational campaign to inform those "analog" viewers - who know little or nothing about DTV - that it exists and is worthy of their attention.
Finally, I am talking with the other Chiefs/Directors of Engineering about the possibility of another Open House event sometime this summer. I'd like to have a date where all interested parties can circulate between the various transmitter sites in one day. This was highly successful in March (WVEC & WAVY). It will probably have to be sometime in July as construction is still going on for the stations at the (consolidated) WHRO site.
Stay tuned!
For the regular crew: Thanx for making this one of the strongest integrated (viewers and broadcast engineers working together) markets in the country.
For newbies, please review the previous threads (listed below) as many of the issues or questions you may have have probably been discussed in one of these threads.
Click here for the February 2002 thread,
Click here for the March 2002 thread,
Click here for the April 2002 thread and
Click here for the May 2002 thread.
Activity on the May thread was less than in April as most of the stations worked out their initial problems and settled into a operational normal. I'd like to keep these threads going as I expect and hope new viewers will be coming on line, in larger numbers, over the coming months. On June 10th there will be a press conference at WHRO's studios to announce a joint campaign by all of the areas local stations to promote DTV in this market. This will be an informational campaign to inform those "analog" viewers - who know little or nothing about DTV - that it exists and is worthy of their attention.
Finally, I am talking with the other Chiefs/Directors of Engineering about the possibility of another Open House event sometime this summer. I'd like to have a date where all interested parties can circulate between the various transmitter sites in one day. This was highly successful in March (WVEC & WAVY). It will probably have to be sometime in July as construction is still going on for the stations at the (consolidated) WHRO site.
Stay tuned!