Saturday, I discovered that CBS, (channel 3 in Burlington) is not carrying the Super Bowl. That's the only station I get very clearly. I'm not that much of a football fan so I didn't follow the ins and outs of broadcast rights so I just realized I may not be able to watch the game.
It is being broadcast over the air on Fox channel 44. After much
fiddling with my antenna rotor, I thought that I would be one of the
half dozen people in the U.S. and the only person in New England who
would not be watching the Super Bowl. The mountains interfere with my
reception of Fox 44. I still live in the dark ages, or maybe in the good old days
of only three or four channels, depending on your perspective. No
cable out in the rural area where I live, and I don't have a satellite
dish (in economics lingo, the opportunity cost to me is too high).
Then I decided to check and see if the game is being broadcast from Montreal. Success. It is, and with some judicious tuning of the antenna rotor, I can get CTV, channel 12 in Montreal on one of my TVs (but not the other--go figure). And I think that CTV is an English language station. The gods of the hills are smiling on me.
Who am I rooting for? No contest. Bill Belichek, who was an economics major at Wesleyan, uses economic decision making in his coaching decisions and acknowledges as much. Tools like marginal decision making and cost benefit analysis are crucial to his coaching style. How could I not root for the Pats?
And just in case the game is broadcast in French on Montreal channel 12, laissez les bon temps roulez.
Analog air-TV is going away.
Aside from SAT ($40/mo)-- where have been for the last 40 years regarding AIR-VHF-UHF? If you get 4 stations from 4 locations -- you put up 4 small antennas -- each tuned and facing the broadcaster -- and combine them through bandpass filters -- viola! -- all stations to all TVs all the time!
Whaddya do for internet?
Posted by: Edward Charles Ponzi Jr | February 03, 2008 at 11:22 AM
Time to join the 21st century Mr. Woolf. Aren't you going to be in trouble when all the TV stations go totally digital soon?
Go Pats.
Posted by: Mister Guy | February 03, 2008 at 05:34 PM