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Sinclair pulling a Birmingham/Charleston in Las Vegas...and Tallahassee?

vchimpanzee said:
Is that list for Florence SC correct?
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if you are talking about post 12 above its a pipe dream. Nothing there actually happened
And how can there be more than one HD channel on a channel? I thought that was one reason for opposition to stations sharing facilities.
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you can run more than 1 HD channel on a RF station. Smaller markets its done all the time.
 
vchimpanzee said:
And how can there be more than one HD channel on a channel? I thought that was one reason for opposition to stations sharing facilities.
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This is entirely possible but mostly frowned upon by broadcasters because running 2 HD signals at once degrades the overall picture quality for both because of the bandwidth both HD channels will use.
ABC O&O's have been running their Live Well HD subchannel for a few years now.
ABC will be pulling the plug on the Live Well subchannel any day now because of zero interest.

That said, from an over-the-air standpoint the PQ on the main ABC channel (at least in the case of KABC-Los Angeles) there is some noticeable PQ degradation on shows where there is a lot of fast motion and action.
Not only that KABC runs two LiveWell subchannels; One in HD & SD which is an exercise in absolute futility and pointless redundancy.
 
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wtlh?

I have over the air HDTV in the Tallahassee area. Wtlh still exists but 49.1 is blank. Its subchannels are still broadcasting 49.2 CW and 49.3 MEtv as normal. I did scan and no update suggesting CW was moving to 6.3 or MEtv was gonna be on 40.4 yet. 40.2 fox has been broadcasting for a month now. Any ideas when the rest wtlh channels will move or be spun off?
 
TV Guide.com's listings show 49.1 as MeTV and 49.2 as CW.
 
Sincalir bought everything but the license for WTLH (since the FCC wont let them buy the station outright) and moved FOx to the subchannel of the NBC they own. Thats how its working now due to the FCC crackig down on owning more than 1 of the Big 4 in a market.

gray Broadcasting has done it in ND & Nebraska
 
unclehonkey said:
Sincalir bought everything but the license for WTLH (since the FCC wont let them buy the station outright) and moved FOx to the subchannel of the NBC they own. Thats how its working now due to the FCC crackig down on owning more than 1 of the Big 4 in a market.

gray Broadcasting has done it in ND & Nebraska
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And this just shows what a complete joke that is, because Sinclair can own two of the Big Four anyway just by putting them on the same station and decreasing the resulting quality, meaning consumers actually have it worse than if Sinclair was able to own two stations outright. The way the government handles licensing for stations is so broken in the digital age, especially given its implications for ownersfip rules, and it's going to get more broken with the incentive auctions and channel-sharing making stations take up different amounts of spectrum. Even subchannels have proven to be worth Jack shit at anything other than filling in missing "big station" affiliations and globs and globs of cheap rerun farms.
 
Robnoxious said:
This is entirely possible but mostly frowned upon by broadcasters because running 2 HD signals at once degrades the overall picture quality for both because of the bandwidth both HD channels will use.
ABC O&O's have been running their Live Well HD subchannel for a few years now.
ABC will be pulling the plug on the Live Well subchannel any day now because of zero interest.

That said, from an over-the-air standpoint the PQ on the main ABC channel (at least in the case of KABC-Los Angeles) there is some noticeable PQ degradation on shows where there is a lot of fast motion and action.
Not only that KABC runs two LiveWell subchannels; One in HD & SD which is an exercise in absolute futility and pointless redundancy.
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With new stat-mux, that is no longer the case...Sinclair owned KFDM has CBS in 1080i on 6.1, CW+ in 720p on 6.2 and now GRIT (and the feed looks as bad as 600 grit sandpaper!) in 480i on 6.3. Gannet owned KBMT really does it with ABC on 12.1 (720), NBC on 12.2 (converted from 1080i to 720p..really, do you even notice the difference??), COZI on 12.3 (720p though all programming is 4x3 SD) and MeTV on 12.4 at 480i...
 
mvcg66b3r said:
Back to Charleston:

Please make sense of this...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc39r-YAodE

So far, nothing on RabbitEars or the FCC Query.
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The only thing that RabbitEars doesn't have is the call sign change to WGWG. Howard Stirk Holdings (or HSH) is the new owner of WMMP channel 4, (channels 4 and 36 switched call signs last fall - sale of station to HSH consummated Feb. 27) and apparently is planning to change the call sign, although it hasn't officially happened yet. Armstrong Williams, seen in the promo, is the owner of Howard Stirk Holdings ("Howard" is his father's first name and "Stirk" was his mother's maiden name), and therefore, is the new owner of WMMP/WGWG. He is a former supplier of programming to Sinclair Broadcast Group stations, so it's likely that Sinclair will be running his stations.

An FCC Call Sign query (http://licensing.fcc.gov/prod/callsign/main.html) shows that HSH Charleston (WCIV) Licensee, LLC, requested the call sign WGWG on March 4, so look for the call sign to officially change soon.

Just waiting to see if the same thing occurs in Las Vegas once his acquisition of KSNV is consummated.
 
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mvcg66b3r said:
And a non-Sinclair shuffle, this one involving Scripps in Boise.

KIVI: 6.1 ABC (720p HD), 6.2 FOX (720p HD), 6.3 Heartland (480i SD), 6.4 Untamed Sports (480i SD)
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No way will Scripps take on a Fox affiliation (If they do, it'd be THE ONLY one). the Fox affiliation gets spun off WITH KNIN 9

Only makes sense

Cheers & 73 :)
 
JeeperOne said:
No way will Scripps take on a Fox affiliation (If they do, it'd be THE ONLY one). the Fox affiliation gets spun off WITH KNIN 9

Only makes sense
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They seem pretty pleased enough with WSYM/Lansing and WFTX/SW Florida to keep those as Fox affiliates. Worst case scenario, KNIN gets a Granite/Malara Fort Wayne/Duluth arrangement or they pay off a former local anchor to 'own' the station, and they'll manage it with Fox staying on 9.1.
 
Sinclair pulling a Tallahassee in Chattanooga?

RabbitEars is saying Sinclair has put a simulcast of WDSI FOX 61 on WTVC 9.2. Right now it's in SD but it could be upgraded to HD. ThisTV, which was on 9.2, is set to go to 61.3. If Sinclair goes through with this plan, Chattanooga would be the largest market (and the first Top 100 market) with a FOX affiliate on a subchannel of a Big 3 station. What would happen to 61.1? And what about WFLI 53? Could this be Tallahassee all over again?

http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=22590#station
http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=72060#station
http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=71353#station
 
It must not have happened yet. WTVC's site shows that they still have This TV on 9.2.
 
My sources say it already happened. Only thing I can't figure out is whether or not 9-2 is in HD yet or not.

- Trip
 
New Age Media owns WDSI. Sinclair would have to buy it before they'd shut it down.
 
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