Joseph Howard
Stunt Coordinator
- Joined
- Sep 10, 1997
- Messages
- 227
My local CBS station is funny in kinda a sad way.
They started to advertise they had gone "DT" but were
neglecting to tell anyone the station numbers for the
"DT" broadcast in the commercials (this started back in
December)
So I called them up and asked, "what station number!!?"
The answer I got was, "were not doing DT! It will be many
years before we will offer it."
I asked, "then why are you currently running a commercial
that has WBOC-DT on it?"
Voice on phone, "we are?" [[I'm thinking, phone answer
person with no knowledge]] "Hold on." [[A few minutes
of waiting.]] "Yes, we started broadcasting in DT in
November."
I asked, "What station?"
They answered, "Oh! The same channel as before!" [[ I
realized they meant, the same CBS station and content not
the station number]]..
I asked, "no, what UHF station number do I tune too to
recieve the broadcast?"
Voice on phone, [pause] "I don't know."
I said, thanks anyway and decided to eMail a technician
at the station.
It took about a week, but a technician finally answered
my eMail with all the correct information.
The DT broadcast station number (WBOC-DT channel 21). BUT,
I also learned that the broadcast is only a 480i digital
rebroadcast of the analog station and they are indeed
quite awhile away from "allowing" [their word not mine,
I'm still trying to decide what that meant] HDTV CBS
broadcast feed.
BUT, happily... I don't know if I had anything to do with
it, but about 2 days after the eMail exchanges my local
station now HAS the station number in their advertisments.
Fun fun fun on the lower eastern shore of MD.
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Dr. Joseph Howard
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"Imagine what you could do,
if you could do what you imagine."
They started to advertise they had gone "DT" but were
neglecting to tell anyone the station numbers for the
"DT" broadcast in the commercials (this started back in
December)
So I called them up and asked, "what station number!!?"
The answer I got was, "were not doing DT! It will be many
years before we will offer it."
I asked, "then why are you currently running a commercial
that has WBOC-DT on it?"
Voice on phone, "we are?" [[I'm thinking, phone answer
person with no knowledge]] "Hold on." [[A few minutes
of waiting.]] "Yes, we started broadcasting in DT in
November."
I asked, "What station?"
They answered, "Oh! The same channel as before!" [[ I
realized they meant, the same CBS station and content not
the station number]]..
I asked, "no, what UHF station number do I tune too to
recieve the broadcast?"
Voice on phone, [pause] "I don't know."
I said, thanks anyway and decided to eMail a technician
at the station.
It took about a week, but a technician finally answered
my eMail with all the correct information.
The DT broadcast station number (WBOC-DT channel 21). BUT,
I also learned that the broadcast is only a 480i digital
rebroadcast of the analog station and they are indeed
quite awhile away from "allowing" [their word not mine,
I'm still trying to decide what that meant] HDTV CBS
broadcast feed.
BUT, happily... I don't know if I had anything to do with
it, but about 2 days after the eMail exchanges my local
station now HAS the station number in their advertisments.
Fun fun fun on the lower eastern shore of MD.
------------------
Dr. Joseph Howard
Link Removed
"Imagine what you could do,
if you could do what you imagine."
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