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WBTS (NBC Boston) moving to Providence(!?!?!?) after the repack

itsRoly4266 said:
Wait a minute... WHAT?! A Providence station serving Boston? Either that or this is a sign that WBTS will be converted into something else and get rid of NBC 10 Boston.
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They can't keep NBC Boston on WBTS, unless NBC plans to drop WJAR as an affiliate. They also do not need to move it there for Telemundo, since they now own WRIW-CD, the Providence Telemundo affiliate, which will be channel sharing on full power WPXQ. However, Telemundo on WBTS would be full HD, while bandwidth will be very limited on the shared WRIW-CD.

Maybe they just want to provide RI coverage for CoziTV, TeleXitos, and full HD for Telemundo.

The ironic part of this is that WRIW-CD (under the previous owner) was paid $33 million to go off the air on ch. 36 in the incentive auction, and now WBTS is applying to use ch. 36.
 
channel99 said:
They can't keep NBC Boston on WBTS, unless NBC plans to drop WJAR as an affiliate. They also do not need to move it there for Telemundo, since they now own WRIW-CD, the Providence Telemundo affiliate, which will be channel sharing on full power WPXQ. However, Telemundo on WBTS would be full HD, while bandwidth will be very limited on the shared WRIW-CD.

Maybe they just want to provide RI coverage for CoziTV, TeleXitos, and full HD for Telemundo.
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Wouldn't the more likely scenerio be that either there is a typo somewheres, or that the WBTS and WRIW applications got munged somehow?
 
The WBTS-LD license is about to become superfluous. WNEU's new facility in Needham is already under construction, and once it's on theair there won't be a need for WBTS or WYCN.

At which point, why not move WBTS to Providence and get Telemundo into places WRIW-via-WPXQ doesn't reach?
 
fybush said:
The WBTS-LD license is about to become superfluous. WNEU's new facility in Needham is already under construction, and once it's on theair there won't be a need for WBTS or WYCN.

At which point, why not move WBTS to Providence and get Telemundo into places WRIW-via-WPXQ doesn't reach?
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A post from someone on "the other site" has a theory that agrees with the scenario you paint.

His theory is that the WBTS move is just the first of two hops.......with the second hop landing it on the WJAR / WLNE tower in Rehoboth......the theory being that the WBTS CP for RF-36 (where WRIW lives for the moment)..... would make it easy for Universal / NBC to neatly slide WBTS into the spectrum, tower and pattern where WRIW lives for the moment.

It sounds like it would be a great way to fill-in the signal holes in the WPXQ-69 signal, which will be shared with WRIW.

Even at my location......29 air miles roughly due-east of WPXQ's TX .....it is not a reliable, solid "catch" over-the-air.
 
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