I loved their Star Trek episodes with facts sprinkled in during the episode and the “counters” of various Star Trek cliches in the corner (”Vulcan Greeting Count,” “Dead Red Shirt Count,” etc.)
from Tom Taylor’s daily column on http://www.radio-info.com
(note: TV Channel 6’s audio frequency is 87.75 MHz,
I believe, just below the start of the FM dial)
The Obama “pause button” on Digital TV could affect a lot of radio stations, too.
And budgets, says one T-R-I reader. Here’s why – “Many new educational FMs in the Northeast have had to hold down their horizontal power to protect a nearby Channel 6 TV station, so they may have lots of vertical power, but maybe just 1 watt horizontal. They’ve been waiting for this DTV transition of February 17 to build out their full system – and an indefinite delay from Washington may mess up their construction and/or transmitter ordering plans. There’s another angle, since some TV stations have canceled their tower leases – but will now have to pay extra rent, while they’re running from both digital and analog locations. It could be a mess.” This veteran engineer understands the reasons cited by Obama transition team leader John Podesta in asking Congress to keep analog TV going past Februar y 17 – the Commerce Department running out of money for the $40 converter coupons, and the fear that many elderly, poor and rural TV viewers will be left stranded, here in the middle of Winter. But look at how much planning is already in place – everything from marketing for a new digital frequency (newspaper, billboards and radio) to unplanned transmitter power bills to new stationery.