Denver wants to watch the Super Bowl in HD
Rhode Island
isn't the only place in America that is
desperate to watch the Super Bowl in HD. Denver's Channel
7 is putting up a temporary antenna on top of the tallest building in the city. All we can picture is some dude
climbing the building with a coat hanger so his buddies can watch the game in HD. Funny picture.We have had numerous comments over the last few months that cited Denver's poor ABC over-the-air signal. The station indicated that this tower should help with that signal. In case you were wondering why a large market like Denver is waiting to put up a ATSC tower, you can blame some local residents. According to CARE, Canyon Area Residents for the Environment, they're concerned about an unsightly antenna and the "dangerous" broadcast frequencies it emits.
Filed under: Programming, OTA
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
David M @ Feb 2nd 2006 12:05PM
Their temporary transmitter has actually been up for a little over a week now.
This is a great development. The local PBS, CBS, and NBC stations are already broadcasting from the same location and have decent (although not perfect) coverage of the Denver area. Fox and WB have their transmitters on their existing towers on Lookout Mountain, so ABC was the last network in town to cover the market with an HD signal. We (HD viewers) have been begging ABC to do what PBS, CBS, and NBC have done (temporary transmitter on Republic Plaza) for close to three years now. It's about time.
Brian @ Feb 2nd 2006 1:29PM
The Superbowl seems to drive a lot of HDTV improvements. Cox (Kansas) finally added ABC to their lineup this week so we could get the Superbowl in HD. The interesting thing is, it is a cable only HD signal, there is still no OTA in the Topeka market for ABC. Is this a common practice?
Dave P. @ Feb 2nd 2006 5:47PM
What KMGH is failing to mention is that, while they have improved their coverage, for viewers outside the immediate downtown area the chances of picking them up (as well as the other major affilliates, as mentioned in the first post) is still pretty tough. I live about 30 miles north of Denver and cannot get a hint of a signal. The sad thing about the CARE group is that the proposed new tower would actually replace four existing towers, and in the end make the visual impact less. The current county commissioners were elected, in part, because they promised to vote against the new tower.