"William Sommer****** Arsehole "

A (digital) TV transmitter with a few thousand watts and
a well-sited high-gain antenna covers a city of 5 to 10
million people and beyond. The electricity bill is trivial.

OTOH -- the cost of installing and maintaining a cable TV
network [sic] serving 5 million people is enormous.

Broadcasting is unique and cannot be economically replaced
by cable or satellite.

You're overlooking the fact that a cable system can provide 100 channels.


** Changes nothing I said.

Digital broadcasting allows six TV channels for every analogue channel that
existed previously - makes the max possible number of well over 100 using
UHF and VHF.

Each signal need only be a few kW and the same transmitter can supply three
digital programs.

This is true for the European and Australia DTV systems, the US system may
not be quite so bountiful.


BTW arsehole:

Leave the ****ing stupid "sic" **** out.


.... Phil