NBC Boston info

[A Joseph Ross]

Thank you.


On 11/8/2016 12:47 AM, Kevin Vahey wrote:
> CanCom is now Shaw Broadcast Services and they import US signals into 
> Canada and resell them to Canadian cable companies.
>
> In Boston they contract with WGBH to transmit the Boston network 
> stations and WSBK to then be re transmitted to Canadian cable companies.
>
> In Nova Scotia, parts of New Brunswick and Newfoundland they get the 
> US networks from Boston stations.
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 11:29 PM, A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com 
> <mailto:joe@attorneyross.com>> wrote:
>
>     What's CamCom?
>
>
>     On 11/7/2016 10:01 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote:
>
>         Garrett don't forget that WGBH still operates CamCom from
>         Needham. I
>         understand paperwork has been done to drop WHDH and add WBTS
>         on Canadian
>         systems
>
>         On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 9:14 PM, Garrett Wollman
>         <wollman@bimajority.org <mailto:wollman@bimajority.org>>
>         wrote:
>
>             <<On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 14:43:14 -0500, Trip Ericson <
>             webmaster@rabbitears.info
>             <mailto:webmaster@rabbitears.info>> said:
>
>                 An outdoor antenna should receive WGBX, notwithstanding
>                 interference from other stations, out to at least
>                 Webster, Charlton,
>                 Rutland, and Ashburnham, notwithstanding a few really
>                 serious
>                 terrain-caused holes, and see increasing terrain
>                 blockages west of that.
>
>             Of course, nobody *has* outdoor antennas any more, and
>             plenty of
>             people in MDUs don't even have the option (the OTARD rule
>             doesn't help
>             unless they have a balcony).
>
>             Which, again, is a good reason for Comcast not to invest
>             too much into
>             WBTS-LD's OTA signal.  They'd be better off working on
>             direct feeds to
>             the few outlying cable systems they don't already own. 
>             (Satellite may
>             be another story, but I assume the satellite receive sites are
>             reasonably close to Needham anyway.
>
>             -GAWollman
>
>
>
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