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For the past few years Cox Broadcasting has been actively gearing up for digital DTV and already has two digital broadcasting stations: KTVU-DT in Oakland, Calif., and WSB-DT in Atlanta. As a result, Cox's shopping list for NAB '99 is a short one. Sterling Davis, Cox's vice president of engineering, says he expects this year's show to involve mostly research and possibly some small-scale buying.
The new $13 million Sony-built digital facility, WSB-TV Atlanta, is on the air full time broadcasting upconverted NTSC content and ABC-provided 720p programming. The new plant is filled with Sony cameras, tape decks, servers, and production switchers, as well as Panasonic monitors and D-5 VTRs. The station does not, however, have an HD routing system "because we chose not to buy one," says Davis.
"We're only passing through network HD signals and [doing] other miscellaneous testing," he adds. Because of that, Davis does not plan to look at HD routing equipment at NAB. "It's expensive for what we want to do," he says. "We are waiting to...