And please, please don’t ever change, and us the
public won’t ever change to MSNBC either!!!

Uh….no. You’ve been hanging around East Undershirt for too long. It might be a good idea if you check your facts.

Analog signals are being phased out and replaced by digital. This does not mean the end of free broadcasting. It only means the end of an antiquated system of signals for something more efficient. If you have an analog tv that receives signals via an outdoor antenna or rabbit-ears, all you will need to continue receiving “free tv” is a TeVCA adapter box.

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GT on September 21, 2006 at 5:48 PM

The net result of analog to digital will be the demise of free tv. See link. This is a couple years old but Powell’s predictions are coming true.

http://www.fcc.gov/commissioners/previous/powell/wsj_091103oped.html

Analog signals will be completely phased out by the end of the decade and with them the last vestige of free broadcast.

Uh….no. You’ve been hanging around East Undershirt for too long. It might be a good idea if you check your facts.

Analog signals are being phased out and replaced by digital. This does not mean the end of free broadcasting. It only means the end of an antiquated system of signals for something more efficient. If you have an analog tv that receives signals via an outdoor antenna or rabbit-ears, all you will need to continue receiving “free tv” is a TeVCA adapter box.

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Just a generic term for a really small out of the way town. Like Bugtussle. I know it’s stupid, but hey, I’m easily amused!! ;^)

That’s what I figured.

Darned urbanite snobs with your fancy talk.

Slublog on September 21, 2006 at 5:38 PM

That’s me baby, up to my armpits in Brie!! Ok, now to you–is it Slu blog or Slub log. I hope it’s the first…..

That’s what I figured.

Darned urbanite snobs with your fancy talk.

WHACK! Ooh, that smarts…

You misspelled the word “mislead.”

You’re welcome.

Oh, and honora, what is with the East Undershirt business? Is this some sort of inside joke I’m not getting?

Slublog on September 21, 2006 at 3:46 PM

Just a generic term for a really small out of the way town. Like Bugtussle. I know it’s stupid, but hey, I’m easily amused!! ;^)

We are talking about directly having to pay for local channels – honora, don’t tell me that you can’t stick an antenna on a television in Pitt and pick up local channels – Pitt is not some backwater town.

Rick on September 21, 2006 at 5:00 PM

We live in New York most of the time, Pittsburgh only sometimes–my husband has some teaching obligations at the U of Pgh med school. You absolutely cannot pick up any channels with an antenna in Pgh–don’t know why–and I don’t get this “local” bit–all your CBS comes to you via your local CBS affiliate, the national networks have no access to the airwaves directly. Don’t know about New York. When we lived in Boston we lived in the Back Bay where cable was verboten–this was back in the 80′s–you got very fuzzy, very sporadic reception thru an antenna then, imagine it’s worse now.

Furthermore, the perception that over-the-air broadcast signals are free is erroneous. The food chain goes something like this:

Networks Broadcast Programs
Networks need to pay for Programming
Networks seek Advertisers
Advertisers pay Networks to sell their goods
Advertisers need to pay for TV Advertising costs
Advertisers recoup expenses in sell price of goods to consumer

Consumer pays for goods
Consumer pays for advertising
Consumer pays for cost of programming
Consumer pays to watch Broadcast TV
So in a roundabout way, you pay, so it’s not free.

We are talking about directly having to pay for local channels – honora, don’t tell me that you can’t stick an antenna on a television in Pitt and pick up local channels – Pitt is not some backwater town.

And I’m aware that nothing is actually “free,” since it’s our advertising dollars that pay for it. That’s why I avoid Bud.

Furthermore, the perception that over-the-air broadcast signals are free is erroneous. The food chain goes something like this:

Networks Broadcast Programs
Networks need to pay for Programming
Networks seek Advertisers
Advertisers pay Networks to sell their goods
Advertisers need to pay for TV Advertising costs
Advertisers recoup expenses in sell price of goods to consumer

Consumer pays for goods
Consumer pays for advertising
Consumer pays for cost of programming
Consumer pays to watch Broadcast TV
So in a roundabout way, you pay, so it’s not free.

Remember that the next time you buy a box of Cheerios or a six-pack of Bud. You’re paying for Katie Couric’s multimillion dollar annual salary, like it or not.

honora, please don’t tell me somebody tricked you into paying for local channels. If they did, blame Bush, I’m sure it’s his fault – damn fascist!!

Rick on September 21, 2006 at 3:13 PM

Conduct the following experiment: call your cable provider and tell them you only want ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, PBS–the “broadcast” channels. Wait to get this for free. Good luck.

Allow me to correct my grammar.

Broadcast networks have always been free.

Slublog on September 21, 2006 at 2:20 PM

Stop paying your cable bill and see how free broadcast is. There are about 10 to 15% of HH that still get “free” broadcast via antenna. Analog signals will be completely phased out by the end of the decade and with them the last vestige of free broadcast. Tough times in East Undershirt.

Your broadcast channels are free–where do you live, East Undershirt?????

honora, please don’t tell me somebody tricked you into paying for local channels. If they did, blame Bush, I’m sure it’s his fault – damn fascist!!

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Broadcast networks have always been free.

Why, yes. Broadcast network has always been free.

To quote you from earlier, “how can you not realize that?”

Slublog on September 21, 2006 at 1:43 PM

Your broadcast channels are free–where do you live, East Undershirt?????

Ok you’re gonna love this, sit down. O’R 2million plus, KeithO 342k. Oh and CBS, NBC, ABC–your know the liberal MSM, about 21 million. Oh stop, you’re killing me!!!

honora on September 21, 2006 at 1:39 PM

2 million plus to KO’s 342K. I knew it would be a gut buster. HA HA.

And I find it doubly hilarious that you attempt to change the debate by citing viewership for the major broadcast networks. You’re a riot. First you try to remind all of us that Fox’s ratings are declining (while they are still crushing MSNBC and CNN) and then you bring up CBS, NBC, and ABC …. who’s nightly news ratings and viewership have been in a downward spiral (declining) for years.