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Anonymous   06-09-2005 at 10:22:58 AM

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<http://www.ce.org/press_room/press_release_detail.asp?id=10764>

Only 33.6 million (12 percent) of the 285 million television
sets in use in the United States are used to view
over-the-air television (OTA) programming, according to new
data released today by the Consumer Electronics Association
(CEA).

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Kirk Bayne
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Anonymous   06-09-2005 at 06:24:10 PM
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Hmm. Wonder where they got those numbers? According to the FCC, with
inputs from various sources, there are anywhere from 60 to 140 million
sets in the US receiving OTA.

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
MEDIA BUREAU STAFF REPORT
CONCERNING
OVER-THE-AIR BROADCAST TELEVISION VIEWERS
MB DOCKET NO. 04-210
February 28, 2005

See footnote 15 on page 5.
.... , there are a total of 73
million OTA TV sets in U.S. households.

That's households, doesn't inlcude offices, bars, beauty parlors.....

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Anonymous   06-10-2005 at 03:24:51 AM
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"K. B." <hotmail.com@lis2lis2> wrote in message
news:3mgfa1hkkbotiu91tej7t6u1rij6h1p305@4ax.com...
> <http://www.ce.org/press_room/press_release_detail.asp?id=10764>
>
> Only 33.6 million (12 percent) of the 285 million television
> sets in use in the United States are used to view
> over-the-air television (OTA) programming,


The statistic is individual home TV's -- right? What about the additional
millions of viewers
whose CATV service provides locals via a headend that receives signals OTA?
I think
that not every rinky-dink cable company has a FODL from all of its locals.

Jack that number up, please. Thank you.

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Anonymous   06-10-2005 at 02:36:42 PM
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Couple of points:

The statistic, as I point out, is questionable, Specious even. The CEA
statement was pure politics, trying to downplay the need for digital
tuners. Just trying to influence the FCC on their tuner mandate. See
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest [...] =164301808

Second, when I was last in the cable biz a few years ago, *most* of the
headends (in the US anyway) pulled *most* of their locals OTA - not
just the small systems but the big metro systems as well.

Anyway, to say that the cable subscribers were therefore getting them
OTA is quite a stretch.

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