http://hd.engadget.com/2009/06/15/fcc-says-dtv-transition-going-smoothly-few-tvs-shot-up/ Engadget HD Comments for FCC says DTV transition going smoothly, few TVs shot up http://hd.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://hd.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/06/15/fcc-says-dtv-transition-going-smoothly-few-tvs-shot-up/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/06/15/fcc-says-dtv-transition-going-smoothly-few-tvs-shot-up/Jun 15th 2009 9:23PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/06/15/fcc-says-dtv-transition-going-smoothly-few-tvs-shot-up/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/06/15/fcc-says-dtv-transition-going-smoothly-few-tvs-shot-up/Jun 15th 2009 9:36PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/06/15/fcc-says-dtv-transition-going-smoothly-few-tvs-shot-up/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/06/15/fcc-says-dtv-transition-going-smoothly-few-tvs-shot-up/Jun 15th 2009 10:01PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/06/15/fcc-says-dtv-transition-going-smoothly-few-tvs-shot-up/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/06/15/fcc-says-dtv-transition-going-smoothly-few-tvs-shot-up/
Mike H, I'm in Baltimore too, but I can still receive 11 and 13 for some reason (although 13 won't come in on the rabbit ears on the upstairs TV), but not 7, 9 or 50 in D.C. I have a Terk UHF antenna in my attic that picked up everything just fine until Friday. The switch from UHF to VHF should not have been allowed IMHO.]]>Jun 15th 2009 11:25PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/06/15/fcc-says-dtv-transition-going-smoothly-few-tvs-shot-up/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/06/15/fcc-says-dtv-transition-going-smoothly-few-tvs-shot-up/Jun 16th 2009 8:58AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/06/15/fcc-says-dtv-transition-going-smoothly-few-tvs-shot-up/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/06/15/fcc-says-dtv-transition-going-smoothly-few-tvs-shot-up/]]>Jun 16th 2009 9:29AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/06/15/fcc-says-dtv-transition-going-smoothly-few-tvs-shot-up/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/06/15/fcc-says-dtv-transition-going-smoothly-few-tvs-shot-up/Jun 16th 2009 9:52AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/06/15/fcc-says-dtv-transition-going-smoothly-few-tvs-shot-up/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/06/15/fcc-says-dtv-transition-going-smoothly-few-tvs-shot-up/Jun 16th 2009 7:56PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/06/15/fcc-says-dtv-transition-going-smoothly-few-tvs-shot-up/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/06/15/fcc-says-dtv-transition-going-smoothly-few-tvs-shot-up/
Unfortunately it is a rooftop antenna, and I've been up there to change it, and it won't be easy or inexpensive. I do have cable, but for their monthly outage, the antenna was a nice backup plan. For the record, I was aware of the problem over a year ago, and that is why I signed up for pay TV service.]]>Jun 16th 2009 11:07AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/06/15/fcc-says-dtv-transition-going-smoothly-few-tvs-shot-up/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/06/15/fcc-says-dtv-transition-going-smoothly-few-tvs-shot-up/Jun 16th 2009 12:08PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/06/15/fcc-says-dtv-transition-going-smoothly-few-tvs-shot-up/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/06/15/fcc-says-dtv-transition-going-smoothly-few-tvs-shot-up/Jun 16th 2009 8:36PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/06/15/fcc-says-dtv-transition-going-smoothly-few-tvs-shot-up/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/06/15/fcc-says-dtv-transition-going-smoothly-few-tvs-shot-up/
To the other folks up there, I lost WJLA 7 and WUSA 9 as well, and WDCW 50 is surprisingly spotty for me as well considering it was perfect on UHF 51 last week. One saving grace is that WDCW 50 is intending to increase power pretty soon, so hold tight. WJZ 13 in Baltimore is also looking to increase power. WJLA 7 is maxxed out (30kW) already and I've seen nothing to indicate that WUSA 9 even cares :)


I think the part that burns most of our biscuits out here is that some rather minor channels (WPXW - Ion, WNVC - World Newscasts) got very powerful UHF frequencies here. WPXW, which is 95% nothing but infomercials took over the 1000kW tower from WUSA (CBS). It's the most powerful channel now for most people around me. We can watch Sham-Wow commercials 9 times a day but not get CBS? Frequency neutrality by the FCC was not a good idea in this case, there should have been a way to play favorites.

My guess is that something significant will change here in Washington/Baltimore before the fall season begins. D.C. is a top 10 market. Baltimore is a top 25 market. Even with OTA being far outclassed by hard-wired and satellite, I think the loss of viewers by major networks will be noticable in the ratings. Since ratings rule the world, maybe something will happen!]]>Jun 16th 2009 10:31PM