when analog TV ends

Scott Fybush scott@fybush.com
Fri Sep 26 00:15:48 EDT 2008


Kevin Vahey wrote:
> But still the FCC has required the visual ID to say WCVB  WCVB-DT  and
> with channel 4 it says WBZ-TV  WBZ-DT
> 
> I know in Cambridge Comcast is still using the analog transmissions as
> they haven't totally upgraded the headend yet.

It's not clear to me, from the current version of 47CFR73.1201, that the 
FCC *is* actually requiring those IDs:

http://sujan.hallikainen.org/FCC/FccRules/2008/73/1201/

But the FCC's rules are unclear on the point, to say it mildly.

s


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