One quick way to grow FTA

April 12th, 2010

Echostar's a separate company from Dish, so this photo isn't that relevant.

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One quick way to grow FTA

Survival guide to the NAB Show (or any convention)

April 5th, 2010

Gee whiz, I never expected that I’d be writing so much about the NAB Show.

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NAB countdown and other notes

March 26th, 2010

NAB past president David Rehr (left) and Mr.

Religious broadcasters, please throw us a bone

March 22nd, 2010

Liberty, one channel that mixes in secular programming Religious broadcasters, of which there is no shortage on FTA, could grow their flocks while making the world a better place if they’d only make one small change: Add a bit of secular programming. This is not a new idea.

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Spring forward this Sunday

March 11th, 2010

Just a short note to remind you that Daylight Savings Time begins for most of us this Sunday. Our weekend will be shortened, and we won’t get that hour back until October. At least the snow is melting and the flowers are thinking about blooming

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Reminiscing on FTA’s glory days

March 10th, 2010

A list from FTA's glory days I was cleaning up some old bookcases when I came across a laminated FTA channel chart that I had made years ago. Back then, I was checking to see whether a commercial printer could do a particular kind of job, and I needed a test page to be printed in color and laminated.

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Reminiscing on FTA’s glory days

Reminiscing on FTA’s glory days

March 10th, 2010

A list from FTA's glory days I was cleaning up some old bookcases when I came across a laminated FTA channel chart that I had made years ago. Back then, I was checking to see whether a commercial printer could do a particular kind of job, and I needed a test page to be printed in color and laminated. I used a list of channels the way I had ordered them on my FTA receiver.

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Over-the-air TV is under attack

March 4th, 2010

The perfect complement to FTA TV is over-the-air (OTA) TV, and OTA is under attack. The FCC is talking about selling some of the OTA TV spectrum to folks who will use it for broadband internet.

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FTAList 2.0 is here!

February 27th, 2010

We kept the same front-page logo After much too much time finding problems and overcoming them, I’ve got FTAList.com version 2.0 available for public viewing. Just click this link to go directly there. Anyone using old .htm links will still see the old site, but you know better now, so you can see the new stuff.

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Anyone can write a book; here are two examples

February 19th, 2010

Two fairly recent satellite books There’s a real need for an updated, reader-friendly book about the state of satellite TV, especially for us FTA viewers. In the continuing quest to find this book, I read a couple of small editions that attack the topic from different directions.

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