FCC filing info/extension data

[ReesR]

If you would like to see the status of current "special temporary authorizations" (STA's) see the following web page.
 http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_sear.htm

Select CP Extension under Application types, Digital TV under Service and WI for state.

A list of Wisconsin stations will appear.  Click on the Application details and you will be able to read the entire application as well as any exhibits in pdf format.

Notice that WISN was "dismissed".  Not sure what that means.

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Rees Roberts
Racine, WI
reesr@wi.net

HDTV Receiver:  Sony KD-34XBR2
Bi-directional Yagi Antenna at 30 feet

[borghe]

Is it me or does it look like from this link that Sinclair is trying YET AGAIN to file for a CP Extension!!!!

[borghe]

THEY ARE!!!! They are asking that their CP be extended to 5/1/2003!!! I can't believe this. No wonder neither station has ever bothered with returning my emails! Who do I write to at the FCC about this. This is ridiculous.

[borghe]

I can't believe no one has responded to this!! C'mon guys.. If the applications are approved 18 and 24 won't have to have a signal up until 5/1/2003!!!!

[wxndave]

 

Originally posted by borghe:
I can't believe no one has responded to this!! C'mon guys.. If the applications are approved 18 and 24 won't have to have a signal up until 5/1/2003!!!!

18 and 24 are running out of good weather to have antennas and feed line installed.  If they started today, I would say they wouldn't be done with the tower installation until November.  We would just have to hope for good weather.  That is why they want the extension.  

[borghe]

Except that they have known about this for how many years? Further it never talks about that in either of their exhibits on the site. In both exhibits it says "We will have our antenna up by Nov. 1, we just want the extension to be safe." And in one of them it even goes so far as to hollar at the FCC saying "It is hard for a company to get 30 stations up and going with DTV. We're doing the best we can." I have to stand with most people on this. They have known about these dates for 5 years. The deadline has been past for 4 months. Heck, I can even understand channel 12 to some degree. They were held up with the city with what they wanted to do. This is a case of the station just dragging its feet.

In other bad news, the SBG WB station in Minneapolis has said that they don't forsee carrying the 1080i signal anytime in the near future. Being that that is exactly what Fox 6 is doing now, I can sypmathize. Hopefully the FCC will jump down stations throats after enough of them begin broadcasting, telling them to power up and carry their networks signals.

[Joseph S]

 

I can't believe no one has responded to this!! C'mon guys.. If the applications are approved 18 and 24 won't have to have a signal up until 5/1/2003!!!!

Wow. I'm off to get verification at the FCC Site. Looks like I'll have to call the holier than thou engineer at Sinclair corporate again, seeing as he claimed they had spent millions for HD at 18 and 24. He also complained for me to have the FCC change the HDTV standard. Ha. Ha.

If there was ever a corporation that deserved to have all their antennae get knocked down by a tornado...

Updated before posting...
What a disgrace! These slimeballs are claiming "SBG's original intention had been to build-out as many full power DTV facilities as possible because it believes that full power facilities will expedite the transition." They also pull the WI$N scam of zoning approvals and "tower studies."

Full power is mandated and these slimeballs are claiming "it was their intention."

While their actions show otherwise.

1)No new tower
2)No re-enforced  tower
3)No DTV whatsoever
4)Lobbying me to call the FCC to change the standard

They'll be getting a call tomorrow and so will the FCC along with a followup letter. They don't even have the courtesy to construct individual explanations. Each letter is a mere copy of the previous.

I hope they lose their license soon.

To whom it may concern:
Corporate Headquarters
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.
10706 Beaver Dam Road
Hunt Valley, Maryland 21030
410-568-1500 (Main Telephone)
410-568-1533 (Main Fax)

[borghe]

Here is my letter to scoop@fcc.gov This is the FCC's complaint email address. Feel free to copy and send it, or just use the address to send your own:

Dear Commission,

I am writing this to express my dissatisfaction regarding two of my local television stations' DTV rollouts. In doing a search of your application filing system I have noticed that WCGV-TV and WVTV of Milwaukee, WI have both asked for further 6 month extensions on their construction permits, despite the fact that they already received extensions from the original 5/1/2002 roll out date.

As a viewer in their Zone A coverage area, I was looking forward to have them added to the airwaves. I have repeatedly emailed them asking for any sort of information regarding their transition only to never receive a reply. They state in their exhibits included with the applications that they foresee no problems with meeting their existing Nov. 1 deadline, however they still have no structural reinforcement on their towers and still don't even have the transmitters delivered.

I feel they have shown a complete lack of respect for both the transition schedule your commission has laid out, as well as their viewing public. I feel that by approving their application you will be allowing them to further delay their transition for another 6 months. Also, given their previous disregard for us, their viewing public, I wonder if they might not submit another extension request NEXT year trying to delay this transition even further. Their parent company, Sinclair Broadcasting Group, has on numerous times made public their unhappiness with the FCC on this DTV rollout. Everything from timetables to standards has been SBG's contention, and this I feel is just another weapon they are trying to use in that fight. Don't let them. Dismiss WCGV-TV's and WVTV's applications for CP extension. They have known about this deadline for many years and you even gave them another 6 months. Don't let them abuse the system, or their viewing public, and further.

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

[ReesR]

Bravo!

I commend you for your thoughtful submission to the commission.  Please advise if you get any response.

Rees

[Tom Snyder]

I sent my version of the letter as well!

[techguy1975]

 

Originally posted by Tom Snyder:
I sent my version of the letter as well!

Ok....So thats 2 people who sent a letter..  I highy doubt the FCC will care unless they get man many many MANY more.  if anything, these will just be filed, and the application approved.

Frustrating?  I suppose....  Maybe its just time to face the inevitble, the conversion isnt going to as "overnight" as you all want it to be...

[techguy1975]

 

Originally posted by Joseph S:
If there was ever a corporation that deserved to have all their antennae get knocked down by a tornado...
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Um...You do realize that would only make things worse...Then they'd be filing another extention, making you people complain even more.....

[borghe]

Actually, it is incorrect to assume that it will just be filed. If you go to the link listed above and do a search selecting Digital TV/CP Extension/Dismissed you will see there are 64 stations earlier this year that had their CP extension requests denied, including WISN and my favorite.. One from Texas that filed their request 2 days before the rollout date.  

You are right though. Two letters will have a hard time convincing the FCC one way or another. So how about instead of pointing it out, cuttting and pasting and sending one out yourself. There are so far two of you that have commented in this thread but then not sent out the letter. That would double our efforts right there. Besides, this isn't a petition, this is to bring to the FCC's attention Sinclair's disregard for the market it's licensed to serve. All I want the letter to do is cause the FCC to take a closer look at Sinclair's request.

[techguy1975]

 

Originally posted by borghe:
So how about instead of pointing it out, cuttting and pasting and sending one out yourself. There are so far two of you that have commented in this thread but then not sent out the letter.

If I cared, I would, but I don't, so I wont.    Analog will do me just fine till I can get the fundage to sink in a DTV of my very own..

[Gregg Lengling]

It's getting cheaper the KiloBuck barrier has been broken.  Just look at some posts I did last week.  I also read that HDTV sales in July were 150% above last year, actually it was sales to dealers, but they wouldn't order and stock them if they didn't feel they could sell them.  I'm sure being past the old May 1st deadline helped by putting product out on the airwaves.


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Gregg R. Lengling
RCA P61310 61" 16x9
glengling@ameritech.net