At the birth of high definition television, WRC-TV served as the home of the experimental Model Station.
So why, now that high definition is an everyday reality, can’t WRC manage to actually broadcast programs in high definition?
Every freakin’ week, I tune in to “The West Wing,” only to find that our NBC owned station hasn’t switched through the network feed. I’m watching this show in standard definition in letterboxed format… on their high def channel. This means that the picture is a small rectangle, floating in the middle of my widescreen TV.
What is the damned problem over there? Small, understaffed stations — see “public television” — seem to be able to handle this. Why not a major market, network owned station?
