Abc Hd 8/23-26

[12engr]

I received this from ABC last week and thought I'd pass it along locally:

Attention HDTV Affiliates – No HDTV Feed 8/23/05 to 8/26/05

ABC will be upgrading its HDTV release facility including a replacement of the HD router.  In order to accomplish this work in a timely manner, a four (4) day shutdown of the HD release facility will be required.  

Accordingly, beginning Tuesday 8/23/2005 and continuing through Friday 8/26/2005, ABC will not offer an HDTV feed for either ECM or PT feeds.  In addition, an upconverted SD feed will not be transmitted either.  No HDTV transmission will take place in prime time, because doing so requires the use of the HDTV router and the release facility.   During this time, stations are urged to upconvert the normal network SD feed, as many do now for non-primetime network and for local programming.

[GBK]

good to know they're doing it before the fall season..    Thanks for the info.