Posted on 06/13/2009 1:08:42 PM PDT by Dallas59
“The largest volume of calls came from the Chicago area, followed by Dallas-Ft. Worth, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore.”....LOL!!!!!
These are the same 700,000 rocket scientists who tell the pollsters that “global warming” exists, Obama is doing an excellent job with the economy and that we are losing the WOT.
I dropped cable years ago, and have relied on broadcast ever since. I just use it for background white noise anyway, not many shows interest me all that much. I’m sitting here right now with the stupid public service thing playing over and over, on the only channel that still picks up, starts out with stupid electronica Muzak, then the dweeb with the nervous tic, then en Espaniol, wash, rinse repeat.
I guess I’ll break down and hook up the infernal box that’s been laying on a shelf for a year, after this last signal dies, lol. I’m getting some sort of weird satisfaction, watching it go, myself.
Boxes are available at the local Flea Market on Jacksboro Hwy!
Your not missing much...Weather radar is available 24/7 on 35 channels.
Unfortunately sticking a satellite dish out the apartment window isn’t an option where I live and TV isn’t worth the $500 a year to me.
I’ve lost the local ABC affiliate for some reason and have gained about two dozen junk channels - 8 PBS channels including one that seems to play nothing but jazz videos, six Spanish language channels, a PC looking cartoon channel and a lot of other junk most of which seems to be in Korean.
I bought the converter for the 1 TV I have that’s not on cable.
Made a 4 bowtie uhf antenna. Tested it some weeks ago and got wonderful reception.
Yesterday I turned on the set after the switch and zonk!
A few stations are passable but one in particular, the CBS affiliate is ‘no program’ or ‘weak signal’.
Do this have something to do with my TV no longer working?
I have mine on my Sharp LCD/ Monitor. Regular TV just got a 1000X worse. TV would come back if to a degree if Natgeo, Discovery, Animal Planet and so on would broadcast a watered down version on broadcast television. Anything would be better than what’s on now.
LMAO!
Are you referring to TV or how they vote?
Any person, to which this came as a surprise, is too dumb to be allowed to own a TV.
This is more proof that we have become an Idiocracy. The movie may have been conceived as absurd, but it is hitting more closer to reality that we'd like to believe.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
Try turning the antenna and re-scanning in 45 degree increments. Old school but that’s what worked for me.
Don’t know exactly where you’re at but if you’re around the junction of I85 and I40 according to the FCC you should be able to pick about 7 channels.
Here’s their web site, just plug in your zip code:
http://www.fcc.gov/mb/engineering/maps/
I mean if you can’t trust a government agency to give you straight information.... Never mind.
MOnths and months of advertising. Not a single person can say they didn’t know. Well, I guess the stupid Obama voter types didn’t.
The taxpayers should not be jumping through hoops to placate these dummies.
He needs to rescan his channels. The converter will not see any digital channels that where moved until he does so.
I have a Mac hooked up to my 27” TV monitor. By going to www.blinko.com I can (when it works) get Fox, Fox Business, CNN, Discovery Channel and a really cool pan sequence of the Marathon Key City Marina. The only annoying part is that I have to use a wireless mouse as a remote which, being Blue Tooth, has to be within 10 feet of the Mac to be reliable.
Fox and Discovery are enough for me but I too would like The History Channel, Animal Planet and NatGeo. Internet TV is now about where broadcast TV was in the early sixties. Given time, competition and improved bandwidth it will get better but until then we’re stuck with either broadcast, which just got worse, or paying for the cable provider’s obscene business model.
I’m northwest of there, closest to the intersection of NC 68 and NC 150.
Prior to the original switch, I could pick up 13 channels well enough to bother, and eight clearly. Prior to yesterday, that was down to 10 at least marginal, and five clearly. Today, it’s just one, clear as a bell, playing the announcement over and over.
Haven’t connected the converter box yet, but will keep your advice in mind when I do. As I mentioned, I’m getting some strange thrill out of watching it fade into oblivion.
85% of those calling are members of ACORN.
700,000 zero voters.
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