On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 7:48 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote:
> Last night, one of the local TV stations informed viewers by way of > scrolling text across the screen that in June, after the digital > transition, their current digital channel will change. Their advice > was to rescan all channels in order to find their new one. If you had > any questions, their advice was to call the FCC, and they provided a > toll free number to use for that purpose. I was wondering why they > didn't provide viewers with the channel number they were going to > migrate to. They are most likely going to revert back to their > current analog channel from their current UHF digital channel as many > will be doing. Why make it such a mystery? Just tell me the channel, > okay? I am not so stupid as to be unable to program the new channel > myself as opposed to having to rely on my TV or converter box to do it > for me. > Expect to rescan fairly frequently especially through the transition date. They may not not know or expect to be given a change. All the times I have seen this crawl locally to DC it has been on CBS but I think it may be a generic message running everywhere. -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
