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Subject: Spokane Broadcasters Negotiating Translator Site Author: Anonymous [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: Wed, February 04 2004, 9:04:33 PST The Spokane television affiliates regret the decision People's TV had to make and the subsequent loss of local, free television service. The underlying cause of its demise was a lack of community support for the translator operation. We continue to negotiate transmitter land lease and FCC license issues in pursuit of restoration of Spokane's over-the-air signals to the viewership in Grant County. As we learn more from the agencies, we will report back with a time line. Regards Spokane Affiliates Engineering Staff [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Uplink to Galaxy10R Author: Anonymous [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Wed, February 04 2004, 11:53:46 PST Have you considered uplinking your signal to Galaxy10R via Equity Broadcasting Corporation for ALL of Grant County viewers to receive by way of Free-to-Air broadcast and reception with a MPEG 2 Receiver? Galaxy10R will serve as your Translator, and there isn't anyone anywhere in the entire USA with the right equipment who would not receive your broadcast. Several TV and Radio stations have indicated strong interest in this method of making their digital and analog signals available to increase their TV viewer market share in Grant County and elsewhere. There are many advantages to this approach, as it requires no maintenance, no repairs, and is on 24 hours a day with no interruptions, strong signal, and very cost effective. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

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[> Subject: Who is Negotiating with the BLM and the FCC? Author: Anonymous [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Wed, February 04 2004, 19:55:36 PST The Peoples' TV did not make a decision to discontinue translator service. The Federal Communications Commission auctioned off the frequencies they had for years allowed the Peoples' TV to use to broadcast TV signals. The Peoples' TV broadcast was not free. For years, a few hundred viewers paid $30-$50 a year to pay for the service. While a few hundred paid, 12,000 viewed and did not help pay for the TV they watched. The 12,000 truly did watch it for FREE. Are 12,000 FREE watchers to blame? Before you answer the question, here is food for thought. Before Cable TV, 25 years ago, there was plenty of support. There was no choice in TV reception. Then cable TV, with lots of choice, much improved signal, and the early years of cable were affordable, much like the early days of 7-11 stores, when they were first introduced to displace the mom & pop corner grocery stores. Then came satellite reception, with more choice, good reception, and it too was affordable. Then came the Bommers and Generation X which grew up on more choice, more of everything, for whom money is no show-stopper. The bommers and Generation X grabbed all the media they could get: basic, HBO, Showtime, extras, video and game rentals, and all they coud get. During the past 25 years, the cost of cable, pay TV, skyrocketed, while fewer contributed a modest $30-$50 a year to Peoples' TV. Is it fair to blame the demise of translator TV on Peoples' TV? Should ANYONE be blamed? Did the change in times, people's taste for more choice, the exponential growth in demand for a limited number of frequencies for cell phones, the FCC auction of frequencies already used by Peoples' TV, and the 12,000 people watching the TV for free, be blamed on the end of translator TV in the Coumbia Basin? Who speaks for the Spokane affiliates and engineering staffs, purportedly negotiating with the BLM and the FCC to restore the "Spokane's over-the-air signals"? If negotiations are really under way, with the BLM and the FCC -- both public agencies subject to Freedom of Information disclosure -- why is this information not disclosed publicly now, and here? Are the negotiations under way by and on behalf of the TV stations that lost their viewers when the Peoples' TV could no longer broadcast due to actions of the BLM and the FCC? Whatever is really underway, now is the time to report who is negotiating, what is being negotiated, and let the people of the Columbia Basin in on it -- that the people may have a voice in what is being negotiated on their behalf, without their knowledge. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]