Will Time Warner Austin Pick NBC Back Up?

I am sure that an NBC station will be picked up eventually when they know there may be no conclusion to this problem. I assume that most people affected by this have either gotten another provider or gotten rabbit ears and pick up the station over the air. This may mean less people complaining and giving TWC a sense of less urgency. If they don't think there is a problem, why rush?

Then again, do they care?
 
First of all, rabbit ears will do the trick just fine after the digital conversion. Second, Time Warner hasn't yet begun to feel the pain of this yet. Many people were willing to wait for a bit before switching, and now that it doesn't seem that we will be getting NBC back, people are leaving in droves. The problem is, ATT only has so many installers. I switched to ATT last week and my install date isn't until Nov. 6.
 
Grande has NBC for you all missing your Sunday Night Football, not to mention the NFL network when their games start kicking in.
 
They have digital rabbit ears now, and they will be just fine. Problem is, if you're like me, watch a lot of DVR and have become addicted to the rewind and pause buttons, then you are pretty well SOL until you get another provider.

He's not kidding about the 6 hour AT&T install either.
 
I tried to go to AT&T and thier installer came out and said "time warner already has wires to your condo, we can't install." I argued for awhile that EVERY house in Austin has time warner wiring and for him to get off his fat *** an run a new wire. I'm still waiting for his manager to call back...
 
I've actually realized over the past week or so how irrelevant NBC really is. Heroes, The Office, and Saturday Night Football. That's it. Frankly, all of network television is irrelevant. I'd dump cable all-together if it wasn't for an addiction to live sports.
 
Yeah, as a dyed in the wool TV-a-holic I'm amazed by how little KXAN being gone has bothered me. The Office and 30 Rock is a problem... but I've been looking for any excuse to dump most of the rest of their schedule. I'm holding out that Heroes is going to reverse course soon, but if they don't, I'll write them off too. It's like all of a sudden I've got free time again.... free at last.
 
I find it interesting that TWC really does not have their customer's best interest in mind. If they did, then on their radio ads they would tell you that you have 2 options. 1) nbc online. 2) antenna. Of course they do not even mention the 2nd option b/c then you would be watching KXAN and not NBC directly. If they had the customer's best interest, they would say both options. You cannot do #1 unless you have high speed internet and not all of their customers do.
 
TheFied, maybe they are assuming that their customer base isn't made entirely of morons.

Seriously, is there a chance that there is anyone in Austin who doesn't know about antennas? That was the only way to get TV for most of 50 years, if they didn't know they could get TV that way they are dumb asses.
 
You can't get HD from antenna unless your TV has an internal HD tuner...my two older rear projection HD TV's don't, so best I can do is non-HD KXAN until they resolve this issue unless I switch.
 
There is so much on, I haven't missed it. I suppose as long as one local news source is still available, I won't implode over this. I could go out and get rabbit ears if the Ms. starts missing some favorite show too much.
I really don't watch much on the regular networks these days.
Local news and sports, that's about it.
 
No, I'm saying that there are plenty of people in their 20's who know that TV has been around for many years, but they don't know how it was done in the pre-cable/sat days, because that's before they were born. And that's not stupidity.

One of the signs of age is when you don't understand how adults younger than you think. I'm a college professor, so I get smacked in the face with that reality on a weekly basis. (I can't even make Seinfeld references in class any more.) I can guarantee you that almost none of my students has any idea what a slide rule is. I'll bet most of them have never used a typewriter. I doubt that any of them has ever seen an 8-track cassette. A TV antenna? Same deal.

Want to feel really old?
 
Beau, just stop it. It is not necessary that a 20 year old understand the specific working of an antenna to know how to find one. You've owned a car for years, and I bet you can't tell me how a fuel injector works. The point is TWC educates about computer->tv because they believe that their users either don't know that it is possible or that it requires a significant investment. Once you've cleared the hurdle of general knowledge that the technology is available at a nominal cost, TWC's responsibility ends.

I'm not suggesting that 20-somethings should have an intuitive knowledge of technology from 20 years ago. I'm saying that TWC is not required to educate on something that even you say they already know... that the signal is there and cheaply available. That has passed over from hand-holding into gross dependency.
 
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