Wednesday, June 15, 2016

The local TV you watch today, may not be there or be moved after the 1st of the year if not sooner

Here's something your local news reporter or TV newscast isn't reporting to you. Your local TV station or groups of stations, might be doing the U-Haul shuffle here soon, as the FCC is looking to rip off more spectrum, and that means your local UHF and VHF broadcast TV station, is going to get its moving papers. Some small rural stations will suffer, or completely pull the plug and just say it ain't worth it. Some of those remote TV channels say like in Twin Falls which are boosters of the stations in Boise like KTVB and so on, might not be there after Christmas, this year, since the FCC is gobbling up spectrum faster than Boss Hogg slurping pancakes with heavy syrup. If you think that just because you have cable and/or satellite that you are immune, forget it, the cable companies like Cable-One, AllWest and such that are very small, are going to have to figure out just where to relocate your local broadcast channels. Add to that your satellite service whether its Dish or DirecTV/A.T.&.T is going to have nightmares. Sure they might just shove out your local stations and make YOU watch ABC,CBS,NBC,FOX etc on a station somewhere in America, that is no where even close to where your at. 
Problem is our local news outlets are not saying or reporting this. Question becomes WHY? After all, if KSL-5 or FoX 13 News gets relocated on the dial, and they loose the viewers off of those translators, that's a pretty good bite out of their ad sales, as far as OUR local newspaper, well ya'll know my thoughts there, too stupid and never current. 
Aren't you glad you read our news?
But if you love your local TV, you best keep watch, as the TV you see today, might not be, or be in the same spot on your TV dial in 7 months.
TTYLY

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