Digital TV may take a while to figure out. We have lots of zero's, now what's needed is just a few good one's.
Former General Manager Lew Warren figures it will take $32,000,000 and change to make the digits fly for KVCR. With an average viewing audience of 1400 households, Dave would have needed to ask for a pledge of $22,000 from each one!! However commercial programming with paid ads may be allowed on multicast channels, so it could end up "paying for itself".
Complete transcript of the January 2000 report published in the Inland Empire Business Journal concerning the costs for local area public stations to make the transition to Digital Television.
Meanwhile, in San Fernando Valley you might be able to watch KSFV-LP low power television on channel 26. At one time the FCC had reserved channel 26 in Los Angeles for future Land Mobile (2-way radio) use, but with the need to assign extra channels for the digital TV build out most of these set asides were reallocated to DTV. Since they won't be used for land mobile, this created a window for LPTV services to operate until the full power digital transmitters hit the air, which in KVCR's case could be a goodly number of years down the road.
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