RE: FCC Orders All TV's To Have Digital Tuners By 2007

[Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>]

<<On Fri, 09 Aug 2002 15:27:21 -0400, Larry Weil <kc1ih@mac.com> said:

> I think we're taking too much of a big city viewpoint here, where the major 
> stations are on VHF, and the minor ones on UHF.  In many smaller cities, 
> all or most of the TV stations are on UHF.

And in many of those cities, the lone VHF outlet completely dominated
the market -- which in some places still continues to this day, even
if just out of habit.

(Paging Dr. Fybush... Paging Dr. Fybush.... This is the point at which
you are supposed to pop up with the story of ``de-intermixture''.)

-GAWollman