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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 11628"><p>Casper has described it fairly well. In the US TV stations are <strong>generally</strong> locally owned so the NBC affiliate in Denver is owned by a company in Denver, they just carry the services of the NBC network. For the most part the major broadcast networks only own their own stations in larger markets, thus NBC owns their own station in NY, LA, etc. </p><p></p><p>As in anything else there are exceptions to this. In our cable system for example the local NBC station, channel 6, is carried on channel 9 because the antenna array is in the same area as the cable system and their broadcast signal is so powerful that it was interfering with the cable when carried on cable channel 6. So to get channel 6 we select channel 9. But that's only one exception out of several hundred channels and easy to remember, especially since it is still directly accessed by channel number. </p><p></p><p>If the only TV we had was the 6 or 7 local broadcast channels then it wouldn't make much difference. But we have "grown up" doing it this way and with several hundred channels it would be difficult to do it any other way now.</p><p></p><p>And it seems simple enough to have the option of "access by index" or "access by channel ID" so we can each have it the way we each want it to work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 11628"] Casper has described it fairly well. In the US TV stations are [b]generally[/b] locally owned so the NBC affiliate in Denver is owned by a company in Denver, they just carry the services of the NBC network. For the most part the major broadcast networks only own their own stations in larger markets, thus NBC owns their own station in NY, LA, etc. As in anything else there are exceptions to this. In our cable system for example the local NBC station, channel 6, is carried on channel 9 because the antenna array is in the same area as the cable system and their broadcast signal is so powerful that it was interfering with the cable when carried on cable channel 6. So to get channel 6 we select channel 9. But that's only one exception out of several hundred channels and easy to remember, especially since it is still directly accessed by channel number. If the only TV we had was the 6 or 7 local broadcast channels then it wouldn't make much difference. But we have "grown up" doing it this way and with several hundred channels it would be difficult to do it any other way now. And it seems simple enough to have the option of "access by index" or "access by channel ID" so we can each have it the way we each want it to work. [/QUOTE]
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