when analog TV signals end

[Laurence Glavin]

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Sid Schweiger" 
>To: boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org
>Subject: Re: when analog TV signals end
>Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:36:08 -0600

>They won't become just a memory, but they will be, in some cases,
>relatively meaningless. Channel numbers will be programmable in
>software at the TV station and transmitted with the digital data stream.
>If WBZ-DT wishes to ID themselves on receivers as channel 4 while
>transmitting on channel 30, 4 is what will show up on the TV sets.

>Sid Schweiger
>IT Manager, Entercom New England

A friend of mine is a school teacher, and for several years, he "worked"
as a house-sitter during the summer in a few ritzy suburbs well west of
Boston.  The local cable system in one town I recall had no broadcast TV
station on its own channel, so channel 4 for example could be on cable channel 
22.  This WASN'T because of bleeding between the broadcast antenna and
the cable wiring because this was well west of Cedar St. in Needham.
After February, 2009, could cable operators  transfer over-the-air outlets 
anywhere they want, and put the cable channels that pay them the most money
on channels 2 thru 20?

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