Anyone get a letter from Brighthouse regarding WFLA?

Hi,

Got a letter from Brighhouse today stating that WFLA
(Channel 8, NBC Tampa Bay)would not agree to even a short term
agreement to carry the Olympics in HD.

Would someone please explain why WFLA (or is it NBC?)is
acting in such a mannor? Who is at fault? Our local ABC, CBS and FOX
are in Brighthouse's lineup. If it turns out that its WFLA that is
the bad one maybe its time to start sending email to their major
sponsors: Please run your spots somewhere else, I and many others no
longer tune to that station...


-Steve

I got the letter too. Good move by Brighthouse from a PR point of view -
covering themselves by sending out the letter. Lots of people are annoyed by
lack of Olympics in HD. I'm not sure what the deal is, but I'm going to call
WFLA tomorrow to get more info. Since all the other major networks worked
out agreements with Brighthouse and since WFLA resisted even a short term
deal to bring the Olympics in HD on cable, that makes me think that WFLA is
probably acting overly stubborn. But I'm going to look into it further. I
wonder what's the deal with ESPN HD too, Brighthouse has been working on
that for a while too, and there was no mention of that in the letter. If
they were about to offer ESPN in HD you'd think they would have mentioned
that in the letter. So it looks like there's a disappointment ESPN too.

"Steve" wrote in message
om...
Hi,

Got a letter from Brighhouse today stating that WFLA
(Channel 8, NBC Tampa Bay)would not agree to even a short term
agreement to carry the Olympics in HD.

Would someone please explain why WFLA (or is it NBC?)is
acting in such a mannor? Who is at fault? Our local ABC, CBS and FOX
are in Brighthouse's lineup. If it turns out that its WFLA that is
the bad one maybe its time to start sending email to their major
sponsors: Please run your spots somewhere else, I and many others no
longer tune to that station...


-Steve

I got the letter too. Good move by Brighthouse from a PR point of view -
covering themselves by sending out the letter. Lots of people are annoyed by
lack of Olympics in HD. I'm not sure what the deal is, but I'm going to call
WFLA tomorrow to get more info. Since all the other major networks worked
out agreements with Brighthouse and since WFLA resisted even a short term
deal to bring the Olympics in HD on cable, that makes me think that WFLA is
probably acting overly stubborn. But I'm going to look into it further. I
wonder what's the deal with ESPN HD too, Brighthouse has been working on
that for a while too, and there was no mention of that in the letter. If
they were about to offer ESPN in HD you'd think they would have mentioned
that in the letter. So it looks like there's a disappointment ESPN too.

"Steve" wrote in message
om...
Hi,

Got a letter from Brighhouse today stating that WFLA
(Channel 8, NBC Tampa Bay)would not agree to even a short term
agreement to carry the Olympics in HD.

Would someone please explain why WFLA (or is it NBC?)is
acting in such a mannor? Who is at fault? Our local ABC, CBS and FOX
are in Brighthouse's lineup. If it turns out that its WFLA that is
the bad one maybe its time to start sending email to their major
sponsors: Please run your spots somewhere else, I and many others no
longer tune to that station...


-Steve

"Steve" wrote in message
om...
Hi,

Got a letter from Brighhouse today stating that WFLA
(Channel 8, NBC Tampa Bay)would not agree to even a short term
agreement to carry the Olympics in HD.

Would someone please explain why WFLA (or is it NBC?)is
acting in such a mannor? Who is at fault? Our local ABC, CBS and FOX
are in Brighthouse's lineup. If it turns out that its WFLA that is
the bad one maybe its time to start sending email to their major
sponsors: Please run your spots somewhere else, I and many others no
longer tune to that station...


-Steve

Have you seen what WFLA (8) is broadcasting? Or any of the other digital
stations in our area. Cable companys want to limit the station to one SD
channel or slightly higher bandwidth HD channel. They would eliminate 8.2
and 8.3. WUSF has 4 digital stations and ch 40 has two, ch 40 proper and a
24 hr news program. WEDU (3) has 3, Ch 66 has 4,

WFLA wants the cable company to broadcast the entire 6 MHZ bandwidth as IS.
In the future I believe there are many uses for the full bandwidth. The
channels that Brighthouse and Comcast are offering below 79 are 6 mhz analog
channels.

The OTA stations might even give cable some competion. Just imagine that
each station can broadcast 4 channels of super clean digital picture
quality. That's 10 times 4 channels. That doesn't include the two religious
and two spanish digital channels.

Get an antenna, a cheapy antenna $50.00 is more than enough to get 20
digital channels from Tampa.

"Steve" wrote in message
om...
Hi,

Got a letter from Brighhouse today stating that WFLA
(Channel 8, NBC Tampa Bay)would not agree to even a short term
agreement to carry the Olympics in HD.

Would someone please explain why WFLA (or is it NBC?)is
acting in such a mannor? Who is at fault? Our local ABC, CBS and FOX
are in Brighthouse's lineup. If it turns out that its WFLA that is
the bad one maybe its time to start sending email to their major
sponsors: Please run your spots somewhere else, I and many others no
longer tune to that station...


-Steve

Have you seen what WFLA (8) is broadcasting? Or any of the other digital
stations in our area. Cable companys want to limit the station to one SD
channel or slightly higher bandwidth HD channel. They would eliminate 8.2
and 8.3. WUSF has 4 digital stations and ch 40 has two, ch 40 proper and a
24 hr news program. WEDU (3) has 3, Ch 66 has 4,

WFLA wants the cable company to broadcast the entire 6 MHZ bandwidth as IS.
In the future I believe there are many uses for the full bandwidth. The
channels that Brighthouse and Comcast are offering below 79 are 6 mhz analog
channels.

The OTA stations might even give cable some competion. Just imagine that
each station can broadcast 4 channels of super clean digital picture
quality. That's 10 times 4 channels. That doesn't include the two religious
and two spanish digital channels.

Get an antenna, a cheapy antenna $50.00 is more than enough to get 20
digital channels from Tampa.

I did try an antenna -- a Zenith ZHDTV1 HDTV, which seemed to get excellent
reviews from where I looked. Channel 8 comes in very weak, and it's the
strongest signal.

I live in an apartment and am limited to indoor antennas. My TV (Sony
KF42WE610) manual says don't use indoor antennas - there's too much
interference. Despite that I tried the Zenith antenna and it doesn't work
well. So antennas don't work for me. I'm limited to cable. Bright House and
WFLA need to work something out. If Brighthouse gets WFLA and also ESPN in
HD, with all else they have, I will be very happy with the service, and
cable will suit my needs perfectly.

"Jeff Rigby" wrote in message
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"Steve" wrote in message
om...
Hi,

Got a letter from Brighhouse today stating that WFLA
(Channel 8, NBC Tampa Bay)would not agree to even a short term
agreement to carry the Olympics in HD.

Would someone please explain why WFLA (or is it NBC?)is
acting in such a mannor? Who is at fault? Our local ABC, CBS and FOX
are in Brighthouse's lineup. If it turns out that its WFLA that is
the bad one maybe its time to start sending email to their major
sponsors: Please run your spots somewhere else, I and many others no
longer tune to that station...


-Steve

Have you seen what WFLA (8) is broadcasting? Or any of the other digital
stations in our area. Cable companys want to limit the station to one SD
channel or slightly higher bandwidth HD channel. They would eliminate 8.2
and 8.3. WUSF has 4 digital stations and ch 40 has two, ch 40 proper and
a
24 hr news program. WEDU (3) has 3, Ch 66 has 4,

WFLA wants the cable company to broadcast the entire 6 MHZ bandwidth as
IS.
In the future I believe there are many uses for the full bandwidth. The
channels that Brighthouse and Comcast are offering below 79 are 6 mhz
analog
channels.

The OTA stations might even give cable some competion. Just imagine that
each station can broadcast 4 channels of super clean digital picture
quality. That's 10 times 4 channels. That doesn't include the two
religious
and two spanish digital channels.

Get an antenna, a cheapy antenna $50.00 is more than enough to get 20
digital channels from Tampa.

I did try an antenna -- a Zenith ZHDTV1 HDTV, which seemed to get excellent
reviews from where I looked. Channel 8 comes in very weak, and it's the
strongest signal.

I live in an apartment and am limited to indoor antennas. My TV (Sony
KF42WE610) manual says don't use indoor antennas - there's too much
interference. Despite that I tried the Zenith antenna and it doesn't work
well. So antennas don't work for me. I'm limited to cable. Bright House and
WFLA need to work something out. If Brighthouse gets WFLA and also ESPN in
HD, with all else they have, I will be very happy with the service, and
cable will suit my needs perfectly.

"Jeff Rigby" wrote in message
news

"Steve" wrote in message
om...
Hi,

Got a letter from Brighhouse today stating that WFLA
(Channel 8, NBC Tampa Bay)would not agree to even a short term
agreement to carry the Olympics in HD.

Would someone please explain why WFLA (or is it NBC?)is
acting in such a mannor? Who is at fault? Our local ABC, CBS and FOX
are in Brighthouse's lineup. If it turns out that its WFLA that is
the bad one maybe its time to start sending email to their major
sponsors: Please run your spots somewhere else, I and many others no
longer tune to that station...


-Steve

Have you seen what WFLA (8) is broadcasting? Or any of the other digital
stations in our area. Cable companys want to limit the station to one SD
channel or slightly higher bandwidth HD channel. They would eliminate 8.2
and 8.3. WUSF has 4 digital stations and ch 40 has two, ch 40 proper and
a
24 hr news program. WEDU (3) has 3, Ch 66 has 4,

WFLA wants the cable company to broadcast the entire 6 MHZ bandwidth as
IS.
In the future I believe there are many uses for the full bandwidth. The
channels that Brighthouse and Comcast are offering below 79 are 6 mhz
analog
channels.

The OTA stations might even give cable some competion. Just imagine that
each station can broadcast 4 channels of super clean digital picture
quality. That's 10 times 4 channels. That doesn't include the two
religious
and two spanish digital channels.

Get an antenna, a cheapy antenna $50.00 is more than enough to get 20
digital channels from Tampa.

Get an antenna, a cheapy antenna $50.00 is more than enough to get 20
digital channels from Tampa.

I don't have an OTA converter. I have a box from Brighhouse. I'm
not going to buy one just to get a few more stations. If WFLA wants
to act like a child having a tantrum then I will treat it like one:
Ignore the outburst and take away a treat (sponsor) or two. Does
anyone know who're WFLA's top ten sponsors? If they get enough heat
from the money side maybe things will change...

-Steve

Get an antenna, a cheapy antenna $50.00 is more than enough to get 20
digital channels from Tampa.

I don't have an OTA converter. I have a box from Brighhouse. I'm
not going to buy one just to get a few more stations. If WFLA wants
to act like a child having a tantrum then I will treat it like one:
Ignore the outburst and take away a treat (sponsor) or two. Does
anyone know who're WFLA's top ten sponsors? If they get enough heat
from the money side maybe things will change...

-Steve

"Steve" wrote in message
om...
Get an antenna, a cheapy antenna $50.00 is more than enough to get 20
digital channels from Tampa.

I don't have an OTA converter. I have a box from Brighhouse. I'm
not going to buy one just to get a few more stations. If WFLA wants
to act like a child having a tantrum then I will treat it like one:
Ignore the outburst and take away a treat (sponsor) or two. Does
anyone know who're WFLA's top ten sponsors? If they get enough heat
from the money side maybe things will change...

-Steve
It seems to me that you are mad at the wrong company!

You can get WFLA (8) as an analog channel. If you want HD then you should
be able to get all of HD not a truncated HD channel. What happens if CH 8
decides to transmit in FULL HD using the entire 19 mega bits/sec 6 Mhz
bandwidth. This would eliminate the pixilization of fast moving objects and
give you a much higher resolution. The cable company would have to
downconvert (truncate and reduce the resolution) to keep it in the 1.5 mhz
bandwidth that they seem to want all OTA channels presented on cable.

The flexability of the HD standard is in the ability of the station to
change the resolution/bandwidth to meet the needs of the content. For
Example; they can transmit 4 digital channels with various content or for
the olympics they can eliminate two channels have a higher bandwidth on one
(the Olympics) and broadcast their normal content on another with SD
quality. If the content is slow moving they can reduce bandwidth, and show
highlights of yesterdays Olympic events on a third channel. This can all be
done on the fly without advance notice. Your receiver automatically
receives them, no need to memorize channels again. The Guide function has
the options updated automatically from the station. THIS IS WHAT WFLA IS
DOING NOW! On cable with the current business policy this can't be done.
So YOU LOOSE. Get an antenna!

I can't stress enough that the TV stations are in a NEW race new game with
HD TV. They now have more flexability and tools to capture your attention
and fill your needs. This is great for us! You want them, thru cables
business policy, to eliminate all of HD's features except a slightly better
picture 1/3 of a HD quality picture (1.5 Mhz vs 6 Mhz)

Steve, you purchased a 2K television receiver and now don't want to pay $250
for antenna and receiver. Think about it!