NPR Features Antennas Direct About Basic TV Coverage
Antennas Direct president, Richard Schneider shares antenna trends with NPR coverage about basic TV. After Digital Switch, Basic TV Offers Cable Alternative By Catherine Welch Just before summer 2009’s switch from analog to digital cable, TV viewers were inundated with commercials from cable companies. They urged viewers to subscribe to cable in order to get […]
ModSynergy.com Reviews Our ClearStream4 Long Range HDTV Antenna
The folks at ModSynergy.com recommend our ClearStream4 Antenna. Here is the reviewer’s conclusion. I really like the Antennas Direct ClearStream4 antenna, it does everything it says it would do and it can pull channels miles away. The construction of the tapered-loop antennas are covered in solid plastic and will take a beating. Being covered in […]
Deal keeps WEAR-TV on Mediacom lineup
Louis Cooper at the Pensacola News Journal suggested that Santa Rosa County, Pensacola Beach and south Alabama locals can put away their antennas now that WEAR-TV and Medicom have reached an agreement to keep WEAR-TV on the air for Mediacom subscribers. But the deal only is for one year before the renegotiation period starts up […]
Major television providers planning rate hikes in the upcoming year
The St. Louis Business Journal recently published an article about how Charter Communications and AT&T U-verse are both planning on raising their rates in the upcoming year. Charter is making the most significant hikes—it’s basic cable service is going up 25% from $19.99 a month to $24.99. Charter to Ring in New Year with Price […]
The art of the antenna
Additional validation that ClearStream antennas transcend purpose and are revered by some as art. We have long had a following of the ClearStreams due to their amazing performance, but now we have followers that are focused solely on the messages their design convey. So maybe its not such a surprise to find them showing up […]
If selling crappy antennas is a crime, Wal-Mart is getting the death penalty
Not only don’t these things work very well, now it can land you in hot water. In California, a lady buys $10 amplified rabbit ears; Amp starts to oscillate and interferes with Verizon cell service. FCC investigates and the lady is cited for: “The operation of an intentional, unintentional, or incidental radiator” http://www.fcc.gov/eb/FieldNotices/2003/DOC-292933A1.html It gets […]
Antennas Direct to captivate next generation of wide eyed college students
Coming to a college bookstore near you.. We have been informed the ClearStream 2 to be featured in an upcoming edition of Mass Media in a Changing World by George Rodman. Our plan is nearly complete… Step one: Build world’s greatest antennas Step two: Mesmerize wide eyed college students Step Three: Create new world order […]
Today, we release the C5 to the masses!
The Clearstream 5 is finally shipping! Today, we release the C5 to the masses. It has taken years of work from all parts of Antennas Direct. First marketing, then feng shui consultants, design, engineering, tooling and manufacturing. Countless evolving designs, innumerable meetings, frequent all-nighters to make every part of the C5, from its custom-made, high […]
KKTV, Colorado Springs, Requests Move from VHF to UHF
From TVTechnology.com: ” The proposed channel substitution will resolve significant reception problems inherent with high VHF digital channels, which have been experienced by numerous viewers throughout KKTV’s service area. On channel 10, KKTV is predicted to receive interference to 54 percent of its population and to serve only 959,551 people. The proposed operation on Channel […]
We are the Nintendo Wii of TV antennas
DTV converter boxes aplenty, but good luck finding an antenna. Empty shelves in the antenna department. You need to shop early, people. Notice the lonely open box C 1 on a store shelf in New York. We are hearing from some store managers that customers are figuring out when the deliveries arrive so they can […]
WGHP, Winston-Salem, NC temporarily reactivates UHF transmitter
Viewers of WGHP are reporting difficulties in receiving the Ch8 signal after they reverted back to their VHF assignment and correspondingly reduced their power. They have temporarily restarted their UHF transmitter until they can figure out how to help their viewers. When WGHP moved to Ch8 they also reduced their power to about 11Kw, which […]
Philadelphia ABC station cuts power 99% – viewers outraged, FCC to investigate
WPVI Ch6 ABC in Philadelphia cut its transmitter power from 500,000 watts to about 1,700 watts ERP after the June 12 switchover. Some stations that have been have been offered UHF assignments declined the opportunity to maintain their coverage area, and instead were attracted by the lure of lower electricity bills on VHF. Our phone […]