Not only in Milwaukee!!

[Gregg Lengling]

With little fanfare, Fox-owned WDAF, Channel 4, will begin offering high-definition broadcasts Sunday. Select NFL games and some Fox shows, including "Arrested Development," will appear in the sharper, wider 720p HDTV format.

However, unless you're a Time Warner Cable HD customer, good luck receiving it. There is too much load on WDAF's main tower to support the antenna that broadcasts in high def, so the signal is going out weakly over a stubby backup tower. The signal is so weak that Comcast can't pick it up over the air. Time Warner and DirecTV run fiber-optic lines to Signal Hill, which is why they can offer WDAF in high def.

And until the market for HDTV busts out of the single digits, that's pretty much where things will stand, according to the station's top engineer, Jim Moore.

"Fox has a plan to roll this out," Moore said this week. "And they're going to roll it out right when they do it, and it's going to be sooner than later."

Still, if you're in Comcast country, you might want to make other arrangements to watch the Chiefs play in next year's Super Bowl on Fox.

This information from TVBARN.COM the Net's first tv critic.

[Joseph S]

What's the source? They deserve a compliment for publishing the truth about OTA DTV and the broadcasters' failure to provide appropriate power. Another Fox O&NotOperatedTooWell too, not surprised.

(credit is at bottom of post, Moderator interjection).