digital TV (DTV) transition

One of the worst ideas out of Washington in the last few years is the Digital Television Act.
The government wants to use those signal frequencies for other communication,
like fire/rescue and police. And sell the rights to some others . Everybody panic.
My neighbor worries that their CRT TV will not work after the transition. They suscribe to cable.
But they still worry. Despite the advertising, despite the news,lots of rural folks are going
to lose some viewing options. But not a cable suscriber.
I know that sounds half-baked, even loonie. That is not where I wanted to go.
I can remember saturday nights, when Dr Who was on channel 6 at 10:30 .
If I wasn't home, I could listen to the broadcast on my walkman; the channel 6 frequency
was 88 MHz . In fact, often I would watch the show on television while listening on my headphones.
It didn't disturb my sleeping family members... and the mono broadcast was quite clear.
I have pages from days when, I could find odd channels on my television.
With a basic antennae, you could get channels 120 miles away.
an airplane might fly over, and for a brief 10 seconds, I could watch broadcast television
from channel 5 in Helena, Montana . Whoopie. But think about it; that's over 1,000 miles from here.
It was common to receive Dallas, or Oklahoma City channels right in my living room.
And not for 10 seconds, you could tune in and watch a game, with occasional dropout.
Things that weren't available locally. Some dipshit decided that you can't watch a
Kansas City Chiefs game, here unless the stadium sells out. The 'stadium' , Arrowhead in
KC, Missouri, is 350 miles away. Pure genius . Our American Congress at work .
At least we will still have analog radio frequencies. Maybe somewhere out there,
channel 6 is showing Dr Who again...

Greed:
CTIA, a wireless trade association, contends a delay could hurt confidence in the FCC's auctions to allocate spectrum. AT&T Inc and Verizon Communications paid a collective $16 billion at an FCC auction for spectrum used by television broadcasters that is scheduled to be vacated by February 17.