Jim Hall - Will 58 have 5.1 audio for the Grammys?

[borghe]

I posted in the news forum that the Grammys will be in HD this year. (wait for it to show up ) In the release it states that they will send the broadcast out in 5.1 audio to 25 affiliates. My question for Jim Hall is: Will Milwaukee be one of the lucky affiliates to get a 5.1 signal?

[SugarRay]

Speaking of DD 5.1 - Does anybody know if NBC or any of the other HD stations plan on pusing DD5.1?

[Joseph S]

NBC 4 has done DD 5.1 for the 2002 Winter Olympics, however none of NBC's shows have DD 5.1.

My guess is that we'll be 6 spots short of getting DD 5.1 for the Grammy's. Who knows?

[MesaV]

The Madison ABC affiliate WKOW almost always provides 5.1 audio with their HD movies.

[borghe]

ABC's entire signal is usually 5.1 digital. The questions on avsforum seemed to be a) is the CBS affiliate capable of passing through a DD5.1 signal, and b) will CBS offer that signal to them.

[MesaV]

I'm sorry, borghe, I should have been more specific as to which question I was answering, that being SugarRay's question.

[JimHall]

We have been in discussions with the CBS network about which stations will be allocated for reception of the 5.1 audio for the Grammy's.  We will let you know as soon as we know, but they may only provide the equipment to the top 25 television markets.  Milwaukee is market 31.

[Steve Mann]

Originally posted by JimHall
We will let you know as soon as we know, but they may only provide the equipment to the top 25 television markets.  Milwaukee is market 31.

Thanks for the info, Jim. I take this to mean that you're all prepared and capable of passing on the 5.1 signal if you do indeed receive it from the Network?

[RRP]

Any updates on this?  I'd like see..hmm...hear 5.1 sound for the grammys.  Jim made it sound like they didn't have the equipment yet.

Rich

[Tom Snyder]

I got the defintive word: CBS is, in fact, only making the necessary equipment available for the first 25 television markets in the country.  Milwaukee is 31.  

The good news is that, CBS should be
rolling out the equipment to the top 50 markets throughout the country later
in the year.

[gb4fan92]

Here are the Grammy markets:

New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Boston, Dallas/Fort Worth, Washington, Atlanta, Detroit, Houston, Tampa/St. Petersburg, Minneapolis, Miami, Denver, Sacramento, Orlando, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Baltimore, Indianapolis, Raleigh, Nashville, Austin, Salt Lake City, and Green Bay.

Houston and Nashville are still listed as pending. They have not completed the checkout of their equipment yet.
 

Can you believe Green Bay will be one of the lucky ones? :bang:

[Tom Snyder]

The availability of 5.1 was based on market size... top 25 markets.

However, CBS O&O stations went deeper than top 25...  Green Bay is one of them, so they luck out.

[gb4fan92]

So will we get 5.1 for the Grammy's this year??? :OnAir:
Will we get 5.1 ever on 58???

[Tom Snyder]

Thanks for bumping this up... can't believe this thread is two years old!  

[jkane]

5.1?  How about just a signal strong enough to capture and decode video from first!   :mad: