Broadcasters unite for multicasting!

From Mark Schubin's Monday Morning Memo

- Over-the-air cable-like multicasting service - The Emmis-led
Broadcasters Initiative has reportedly more than doubled the number of
participating stations to 350 in 30 groups since the number announced at
the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention in April:

http://www.tvweek.com/news/web052704.html#stations

The die is cast. This only makes sense if you do one SD minimal channel
to satisfy the FCC so that you can aggregate as much spectrum in a
market to do a number with another advanced codec.

In article .net,
Bob Miller writes:
From Mark Schubin's Monday Morning Memo

- Over-the-air cable-like multicasting service - The Emmis-led
Broadcasters Initiative has reportedly more than doubled the number of

Note that Emmis only has 15 TV stations, and most are somewhat
minor (they are based here in Indy, BTW.) There certainly will
be the non-flagship and low end stations that have profitability
problems.

However, the sad thing (for you) about your desperate attempt
to FUD against HDTV is that Usenet is a very small forum when
compared with the ongoing adoption and growth of EXPECTATIONS
that prime time fare will be HDTV.

John

John S. Dyson wrote:

In article .net,
Bob Miller writes:

From Mark Schubin's Monday Morning Memo

- Over-the-air cable-like multicasting service - The Emmis-led
Broadcasters Initiative has reportedly more than doubled the number of


Note that Emmis only has 15 TV stations, and most are somewhat
minor (they are based here in Indy, BTW.) There certainly will
be the non-flagship and low end stations that have profitability
problems.

However, the sad thing (for you) about your desperate attempt
to FUD against HDTV is that Usenet is a very small forum when
compared with the ongoing adoption and growth of EXPECTATIONS
that prime time fare will be HDTV.

John

At the moment they have 350 stations as members representing 30 station
groups. They expect to have half or all TV stations signed up by end of
year. That would be 800 plus stations. From talking to broadcasters I
think that number is low.

If you think this is not for real you are kidding yourself. This
movement started at NAB in April, this is June 2nd and you try to
belittle it! Even if some big groups don't join they will do similar
data/multicasting themselves or in possibly another group.

John S. Dyson wrote:

In article .net,
Bob Miller writes:

From Mark Schubin's Monday Morning Memo

- Over-the-air cable-like multicasting service - The Emmis-led
Broadcasters Initiative has reportedly more than doubled the number of


Note that Emmis only has 15 TV stations, and most are somewhat
minor (they are based here in Indy, BTW.) There certainly will
be the non-flagship and low end stations that have profitability
problems.

However, the sad thing (for you) about your desperate attempt
to FUD against HDTV is that Usenet is a very small forum when
compared with the ongoing adoption and growth of EXPECTATIONS
that prime time fare will be HDTV.

John

Prime time fare will be HDTV delivered via satellite, cable and via
broadcasting but not with MPEG2, not as the FCC mandated NTSC quality SD
minimum of free OTA programming and not receivable by current OTA 8-VSB
receivers.

HDTV OTA will be part of a subscription package delivered by an advanced
codec and new receivers that can handle it. It will be part of a package
that broadcasters put together to compete with cable and satellite and
they may hold content from cable and satellite to build this new OTA
subscription service.

On 2004-06-01 20:59:04 -0700, (John S. Dyson) said:

In article .net,
Bob Miller writes:
From Mark Schubin's Monday Morning Memo

- Over-the-air cable-like multicasting service - The Emmis-led
Broadcasters Initiative has reportedly more than doubled the number of

Note that Emmis only has 15 TV stations, and most are somewhat
minor (they are based here in Indy, BTW.) There certainly will
be the non-flagship and low end stations that have profitability
problems.

However, the sad thing (for you) about your desperate attempt
to FUD against HDTV is that Usenet is a very small forum when
compared with the ongoing adoption and growth of EXPECTATIONS
that prime time fare will be HDTV.

John

My local PBS station stopped multicasting. Why? The engineer I talked
to said it was to improve the quality of the HD broadcast. Works for me.

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