From the vigilant NY Times, an update on the lack of TV reception in the Manhattan region. New York City is anticipating a hefty increase in franchise fees from the rise in cable subscribers following the loss of the World Trade Center antenna. With viewers signing up for cable instead, broadcast networks have felt less frantic about settling on replacement plans. But “in order to comply with federal mandates for over-the-air service and to house their digital transmitters” they will have to put a tower up somewhere, sometime.