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Why Izzat? (useless programming on digi-subs)

landtuna said:


The NE part of the Phoenix metro area is also far and away the most affluent (Snottsdale, Paradise Alley, Careless etc.) so the TV stations probably think they would not get enough OTA viewers to make the translator worth the cost.
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Also that area has about the lowest population density of the market, so even if it is a quarter of the land area, it is likely only around 15% of the population. If you isolate the area that is to the N or NE of Camelback, it is definitely even less.
 
True Tuna, the Northeast valley is quite affluent and I LOVE your play on the names
of some of the towns. However, if that rationale was true, why does affluent
Prescott have it's own translators while William's, Ash Fork and Seligman soon will not???
 
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Prescott Joe said:
However, if that rationale was true, why does affluent
Prescott have it's own translators while William's, Ash Fork and Seligman soon will not???
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I have a theory if you'd like to consider it.

It is fairly well-known that "AZ-TV" is really a full-power station in Prescott with a translator in Phoenix. Is it possible that a bit of "reverse logic" is in play ... that the Prescott translators of the Phoenix stations are some odd attempt at coverage parity by the full-power Phoenix stations?
 
K.M. Richards said:
I have a theory if you'd like to consider it.

It is fairly well-known that "AZ-TV" is really a full-power station in Prescott with a translator in Phoenix. Is it possible that a bit of "reverse logic" is in play ... that the Prescott translators of the Phoenix stations are some odd attempt at coverage parity by the full-power Phoenix stations?
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Prescott has a rather unusual population composition, as a high percentage of the most affluent folks are not fulltime residents. Instead, they are legally residents of Phoenix, LA, Las Vegas or other places and only occupy homes part of the time. I know that considerably less than half of my neighbors in Hassayampa were legal residents of Yavapai County... and the same is true among those expensive "cabins in the woods" that celebrities and wealthy folks have.
 
K.M. Richards said:
I have a theory if you'd like to consider it.

It is fairly well-known that "AZ-TV" is really a full-power station in Prescott with a translator in Phoenix. Is it possible that a bit of "reverse logic" is in play ... that the Prescott translators of the Phoenix stations are some odd attempt at coverage parity by the full-power Phoenix stations?
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Nowadays, it's more of a Class A station in Phoenix that also has a studio and full-powered satellite transmitter in Prescott. But AFAIK, the Prescott translators of the Phoenix "VHF-numbered" channels have been around since the 1960s, if not earlier. KUSK/KAZT signed on in 1982.
 
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