Ed's View - Local HDTV in Indy

Started by Ed Milbourn • Nov 30, 2006 • 3 posts

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#1 Nov 30, 2006 at 4:50 am

If one could pick an actual date for the arrival of winter in Indianapolis, it is November 15. It is then when the cold, constant rains begin, followed by three months of intermittent clouds. However, this year, November 15 was greatly brightened by the firstregularly scheduled live, locally produced HDTV broadcast. WTHR (DT), the Indianapolis market's NBC affiliate, started broadcasting local news programming in HDTV. And did they do it right!

Several segments of the inaugural evening news production originated from a large...

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#2 Nov 30, 2006 at 4:18 pm

Indianapolis is far from the first to have local news in HD. KUSA-DT in Denver has had HD local news for more than a year. They informed me that they were number 2 in the country to have it. (I don't remember who the first station was.)

Jack in Denver

#3 Nov 30, 2006 at 7:57 pm

Yeah, I think it was either WRAL (Raleigh-Durham, NC) or KING in Seattle. But for Indy, the thought of having the possibility of telephone service is a big deal.
Ed