[opendtv] Re: 20040510 Mark's Monday Memo
- From: Mark Schubin <tvmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 08:45:51 -0400
Thanks!
TTFN,
Mark
Ron Economos wrote:
>KCSM (a secondary PBS station here in the SF Bay Area) will be shutting
>down it's analog transmitter this week.
>
>Ron
>
>>From Don Hackler:
>
>Part 1-
>KCSM TV will be shutting down the analog transmission on channel 60
>next Sunday night. We will only be running the digital transmitter on
>channel 43 after that.
>
>So far, Comcast, RCN, Astound/Saren, and Horizon cable systems
>have agreed to carry the KCSM digital transmission in lieu of the analog.
>Satellite providers DirecTV and Echostar/Dish Network will be carrying
>us as well.
>
>KCSM was unable to extend the lease on the San Bruno mountain
>transmitter site beyond June, so we are turning it off soon in order to
>dismantle the equipment and move out of the site on time. Anybody
>need a 60 kilowatt UHF transmitter, antenna, and feedline? :)
>All you need is 300 amps of 440 volt 3-phase power to fire it up!
>
>The building and tower KCSM is vacating on San Bruno Mountain is
>where KNTV is planning to move when they get FCC approval.
>
>Part 2-
>The new digital transmitter is channel 43 on Sutro. It's been running
>for almost a year. Channel 43-1 is a duplicate of what is on channel
>60 analog. In fact, since January, the analog transmitter has actually
>been retransmitting 43-1 as received off-air from Sutro. There won't
>be a new analog transmitter on 60 (unless we get a new place to
>transmit from...) The channel branding, both physical and logical,
>will be channel 43 in the future...
>
>The digital power level from Sutro is normally fairly high, but the
>seismic retrofits have been requiring the digital transmitter to run at
>very low power levels during construction.
>
>As far as I know, we are among the first ten stations nationwide to
>shut down analog operations, and we are probably the first in a
>major market to do so. We appear to be the first digital-only
>local station to be carried on the satellite providers.
>- Don
>
>Mark Schubin wrote:
>
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>
>>- WRNN in Kingston, New York has requested permission to shut down its
>>analog transmissions, keeping only digital:
>><http://www.tvtechnology.com/dlrf/one.php?id=431>
>>
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