The FCC is currently accepting requests for TV repeater licenses, yes. The application procedure is not easy, as the station must prove the new repeater will only restore their old coverage area, and will not expand it. This takes voluminous engineering reports, and would have been very difficult to prove before the cutoff, since most people then were still using analog.
Someone over the weekend claimed the report from the NAB was bogus because "what would we expect the NAB to say?". But there were ever only two sides in the DTV changeover - the FCC and the NAB. If one party could be said to be more on the consumer's side, it would be the NAB - no broadcaster was in favor of cutting off a single viewer. Of course, it's _our_ FCC, so really consumers had two dogs in the fight. Remember, the report doesn't say 100% of consumers love DTV. It only states 25% don't notice an improvement over analog (but 75% do). On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 3:36 PM, chad evans wyatt<[email protected]> wrote: >Didn't Tony say something to the effect that there will be microwave >repeater towers to resolve all of this? Why wasn't that done before we >jumped? ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
