Denver Cowtown Status Intact
Posted on | November 13, 2005 at 12:49 pm | 2 Comments
Kudos to the Rocky Mountain News for an editorial today (belated though it is) decrying the stupidity of the Jefferson County commissioners in not approving the digital TV tower on Lookout Mountain (see my previous blog entries about it here and here). I’m ashamed to be living in the county that these bozos oversee. So JeffCo commissioners – you can tell us – are you getting money under the table from the folks at C.A.R.E.? That’s the only way I can see to explain this nonsense.
Latre.
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2 Responses to “Denver Cowtown Status Intact”
November 13th, 2005 @ 1:51 pm
One wonders what Golden and the residents hope to achieve. There is a federal mandate to go digital, so it will have to go somewhere. I presume that mandate requires a roughly equal service area after the conversion to digital.
I don’t have cable, satellite or antenna, so I have no vested interested, just a sort of “ooh look at the train wreck” curiosity.
B.
November 13th, 2005 @ 10:50 pm
It’s my understanding, and I may be wrong, that if the new tower never gets approved, then the stations will be forced to hang their digital transmitters on the existing towers, and there’s nothing the residents can do about it. So, everybody loses. The residents want nothing less than the removal of all towers, but I can’t see how that could ever happen.
I’ve given up hoping for the tower, and I’m not sure that it would help me anyway here in the shadow of Green Mountain. But the whole thing just galls me.
I’m just waiting for the satellite conversion to mpeg4, which will allow them to carry local HD channels. DirecTv has already started doing it and Dish is supposed to follow soon. And though I hate Comcast, they are seeming like a more viable option these days for local HD.