Denver DTV on-the-air From Lookout Mountain

By Doug Lung
published

Over the past several years RF Report has covered the difficulty Denver broadcasters have had putting up a new tower on Lookout Mountain to provide DTV service to Denver.

I first mentioned the Denver situation in the “Other items of Interest” section of RF Current for April 17, 2000.

After an act of Congress that took away the local government’s authority to stop construction, work started on the tower. Stations are now broadcasting from the new tower. Ken Freed discusses the new site in detail, with photos, in this week’s TV Technology article Denver Finally Gets its DTV.

Doug Lung
Doug Lung

Doug Lung is one of America's foremost authorities on broadcast RF technology. As vice president of Broadcast Technology for NBCUniversal Local, H. Douglas Lung leads NBC and Telemundo-owned stations’ RF and transmission affairs, including microwave, radars, satellite uplinks, and FCC technical filings. Beginning his career in 1976 at KSCI in Los Angeles, Lung has nearly 50 years of experience in broadcast television engineering. Beginning in 1985, he led the engineering department for what was to become the Telemundo network and station group, assisting in the design, construction and installation of the company’s broadcast and cable facilities. Other projects include work on the launch of Hawaii’s first UHF TV station, the rollout and testing of the ATSC mobile-handheld standard, and software development related to the incentive auction TV spectrum repack.
A longtime columnist for TV Technology, Doug is also a regular contributor to IEEE Broadcast Technology. He is the recipient of the 2023 NAB Television Engineering Award. He also received a Tech Leadership Award from TV Tech publisher Future plc in 2021 and is a member of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society and the Society of Broadcast Engineers.