[SBE] 4 more months?

[Tony Mancari]

The fact of the matter is-

 

We also need to keep in mind that this wouldn't have occurred if the
governmental administration had asked for the remaining funds in the pot
the way they were suppose to. The past admin had only committed 990
million to the qpon program out of the 1.5 Billion. Monies would have
been replenished automatically (according to the original bill) if admin
had asked for the monies they were entitled to.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tony Mancari WVPT DTV

 

 

 

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From: sbe-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf Of
A9xw at cs.com
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 3:59 PM
To: sbe at sbe.org
Subject: Re: [SBE] 4 more monts?

 

I must take umbridge with your comments. Your tirade of economic woes
for the station still benefits those who are receiving the $1.2 million
from teh station to stay on analog longer, thus maintaing income to the
utility, tower owner, and we lowly engineers that keep the boxes
working.  If a station can't manage to stay on for another 4 months, it
is so badly managed going DTV only early will likely not help either. 

Then lets not forget that your station income is derived from the number
of eyeballs that can see it. If you lose some percent of your audience
because they do not have DTV reception, then your bottom line Nielsen
numbers are also going to drop and sales by the $/k income drops. But if
you allow the NTIA enough time to fund the boxes, and stores to sell the
boxes, you lose less as time goes by because your universe of eyeballs
increases on dtv.   

The Government is forcing obsolence of analog receivers purely to gain
the income from the auctioned frequency spectrum.   

Besides, you can't turn off analog in February, its black history month
and Obama must speak to his audience. March is NBA finals, April is the
start of Baseball.  May kids are still in school, so we have to wait for
summer when lots of people no longer watch TV, and travel, go outside,
or take that tax refund and spend it on a new big screen DTV set.
Congress will not be in session, so the hate mail will be tossed by
staff and then congress comes back in September long after any hate mail
has dwindled to near nothing. 

Henry 

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