Fingers acting up today big guy?
If Pattie wants to organize a petition maybe one to congress would be appropriate.
So, the NAB finally got part of what it wanted: if LiLs are available to you, you're not getting DNS and especially NO grandfathered DNS. Of course they'd be happier if no flavor of DNS existed anywhere but they're working on it.
So now CONGRESS, how about addressing digital equality under the law?
If HD LiLs, then no HD DNS - ok, we can live with that but how about "must carry" for them?
In other words if the interest is really in being fair to viewers, then along with getting rid of loopholes that allow "served" viewers to get analog dns, we need to CLOSE loopholes that are preventing truly unserved viewers from getting digital feeds of networks.
Force affiliates to make their digital feeds "available" to all carriers that want them but also force all carriers that want to be in the business of providing TV signals to carry the local digital feeds.
When there is not a digital signal (of decent power and quality) for a network available in a DMA then the carrier can (and must) provide a digital feed of that network from an adjacent DMA (presumably within the same spotbeam) or if that is not practical, then a national feed could be used on a CONUS beam.
All this would be separate from and regardless of any analog signals that may or may not be available to the viewer (from any source). If analog is going away, we need to completly separate it from digital now.
This would be fair and I guaren-friggen-tee you it would snap affiliates in line and speed up the digital transition but most important, it would insure all television viewers had equal access to high definition network programming.
