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To: DiViT who wrote (32905)	5/4/1998 5:30:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

San Francisco.................................... KRON-TV (NBC affiliate) 1001 Van Ness Ave. San Francisco, CA 94109-6982/415/441-4444 Craig Porter, Chief Engineer KRON is on track to broadcast DTV by Nov. 1, according to Porter. "Studio-wise, we're about 80% complete and transmitter wise, we're about 50-60% complete." Porter says NBC hasn't told him how they're going to deliver the HDTV signal - "I sense they're making it up as they go along." The final piece to the puzzle is the selection and installation of the encoder and multi-plexer, but Porter was pleasantly surprised at the multitude of products at NAB. "We're going back and looking at all of our options." Porter didn't specify which brands. With an estimated $8 million DTV budget, Porter says they're pretty much ready to go - "we have the 16X9 cameras, all the SDI routers, AS routers - we're ready to accept any format NBC gives us."