Market research firm Centris has issued a study showing what it calls “serious gaps” in digital TV signal coverage across the country, which could interfere with the successful completion of the digital television transition on Feb. 17, 2009.
The Centris study examined several large TV markets and exercised models of coverage to determine how many broadcast stations could be received in ZIP codes within 5-mile intervals of the TV towers in a 60- to 75-mile radius corresponding to the Federal Communications Commission- (FCC) identified service contours...