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In article <C0GJqK.1D4@tegra.com> vail@tegra.com (Johnathan Vail) writes:

>Cable companies pick up the "air" channels the same way you do: off
>the air with an antenna.  No broadcast, no cable.  There is no magic
>wire from each broadcast station to each town's cable company.

One can't make generalities like this.   It is different in
different towns, and is different for different stations within
the towns.  It all depends on how important the cable company
thinks the signal is and how much money they have.

I remember reading an article about how the Manhattan cable
company has multiple separate underground feeds, one running up
the east side of Manhattan and one up the west side (for
excellent redundancy), connecting the major local stations to the
cable head end.  They keep feeding signal even when the local
channels' transmitters die.

Bob Clements, K1BC, clements@bbn.com