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Contributed by: Carole Lomond on 12/15/2006

There are mutually beneficial solutions for free HDTV coverage of the Denver metro area

There are nine broadcast antenna tower sites available for free over-the-air HDTV. All, including Lookout Mountain, require boosters or translators to serve "shadow areas" like Boulder. Except for residential-zoned Lookout Mountain, which is already saturated with radio frequency pollution beyond legal limits, alternative sites have been available for five years. There are now more than 1,000 devices sending radio frequency radiation from more than 40 towers on Lookout Mountain. "Towers" are not the problem. Too many radio frequencies are the problem.

Denver Channels 4, 7, 9, and 20 need a 200-foot tower and 4,000 sq.ft. industrial building to broadcast four HDTV spectrums from 8,000+ altitude. The mega-media corporations that own these stations want a 730-foot tower based at 6,800 foot altitude on historic park land surrounded by the "mountain backdrop" that citizens have paid $55 million to preserve. Huge profits from renting 530 feet of the corporate "Supertower" and the proposed 20,000 sq. ft building would increase electromagnetic pollution to interfere with electronic devices within a five-mile radius, including cell phones and emergency communication.

Golden, Genesee and Lookout Mountain families, researchers, and businesses have volunteered extraordinary expertise, time and money attempting to clean up the pollution impacting 50,000 human beings. The TV stations have an opportunity to be the good neighbor they promote themselves as being by installing HDTV to cover Denver from Squaw Mountain where KYGO-FM and Channel 12 now send signals.

Denver mass media has not provided comprehensive investigative reporting on this controversial issue. The only significant media coverage was quarterly reports in City and Mountain Views since 1998, a feature in Westword by Michael Roberts in 2000 and a 10,000-word series in Mile High Newspapers in 2006 by Steve Graham.

Diversity, skepticism and independent points of view are required for citizens to manage a healthy democracy. Beyond the corporate media propaganda campaign for HDTV only on Lookout Mountain during 2006, comprehensive information for the Public's Right To Know is available at www.HDTVhonestly.com and www.CityMtnViews.com

Carole Lomond is a Lookout Mountain resident and the publisher of Jefferson County City and Mountain Views.

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Submitted By: Ernie S

posted on 12/15/2006 @ 7:00:01 PM

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Where your story is flawed is that the majority of RF pollution on Lookout is from Radio and not TV. TV is only responsible for 5% of the total RF. You should be fighting the radio stations, not the TV stations. And to respond to the 'shadowing' problems, even CARE's own Al Hislop has publicly stated that there are shadow problems for Squaw. So, I ask you, who is going to pay for these 'translator' or booster towers that would have to be built all over the front range? And who is going to pay for all the lawsuits similar to the ones CARE has brought. Do you seriously think all these neighborhoods will just bend-over and let them build more towers right in their backyards without a fight? CARE has yelled 'fire' one too many times with the words "TV towers cause cancer". Now the entire area is scared to death that just mention of the words TV tower will either ruin their property values or give their children cancer! You opened that Pandora's box big time.

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