[SBE] Digital Conversion PSA

[A9xw at cs.com]

In a message dated 10/2/2008 2:57:51 PM Central Daylight Time, 
mlangner at swcp.com writes:



> Many viewers, our family included, today watch very little OTA TV.  We are 

> in the category of "several hundred cable channel" viewers.

>  

> Uh, Nielsen and other agencies that monitor this say 15-45% depending on 

market watch OTA and an even larger number on TV set # 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ,7 etc are 
OTA viewers. As I recall NYC is the highest penetration of cable/sat TV, a 
large % the rest of us are not forced by concrete canyons to do so.  Not to 
mention that abot 99% of sat and cable subs do not get the additional DTV channels 
broadcast by us tall sticks. So if cable/sat carries 14 local into local and 
there are 45+ OTA digital channels, then up to 91% don't get the actual OTA 
channels provided. More if you figure that the #2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, etc TV sets are 
likely not digital and no box for DTV, but maybe pirated off the one sat/cable 
box to the main TV set via splitter, etc. 

Henry

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