[78-L] end of 525-line television ^

[Royal Pemberton]

Peoria, Illinois is another city stuck in an all-UHF ghetto AFAIK.

Some of what I've heard about this digital switchover includes
something to do with each digital channel occupying a smaller RF
bandwidth 'footprint' than the analogue stations.  Thus meaning each
station that, say, occupied one channel each, could begin offering
three or four new channels of programming in the same space.  I wonder
if this means there will be a new proliferation of awful 'niche'
channels like cable and satellite has been bogged down with for years?

On 1/9/09, Rodger Holtin <rjh334578 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> UHF/VHS markets
>
> Lexington may be a bit more major, but I have lived in the Huntsville,
> Alabama; Florence-MuscleShoals-Tuscumbia-Sheffield ("Quad-Cities"), Alabama;
> and Ft.Smith, Arkansas media areas, and ALL of them were UHF only.  Now I'm
> near Jackson, TN, mid-way betwixt Memphis and Nashville and we have one
> commercial VHF, plus PBS one VHF and commercial UHF.
>
> I'm on cable, and don't watch much tv anyway.  My son lives here, too and he
> got his converter box and loves it.  The PBS station runs two other signals
> that he can get and the commercial VHF runs two others also.  The commercial
> UHF, however, does not sheem to show up.
>
> BTW - Mike - what are you doing in Birmingham???
>
> Rodger
>
> For Best Results use Victor Needles.
>
> .
>
> --- On Thu, 1/8/09, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:
> ...  In Lexington, KY one of the stations
> is petitioning to get their digital signal moved off of VHF into UHF.
> Lexington was the only sizable market that was ONLY UHF.  ...
>
>
>
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