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51 Is The New 55

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/472756-FCC_Freezes_Applications_for_TV_Ch_51.php

The freeze is temporary while it considers a wireless industry request for rulemaking to prevent interference with wireless operations by prohibiting operation on the channel and accelerating broadcasters' voluntary relocation through agreements with wireless companies...

Yes, because we all know how much of a wildly popular success that "FLO" thing was for Qualcomm... ::)
 
DToTheJ said:
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/472756-FCC_Freezes_Applications_for_TV_Ch_51.php

The freeze is temporary while it considers a wireless industry request for rulemaking to prevent interference with wireless operations by prohibiting operation on the channel and accelerating broadcasters' voluntary relocation through agreements with wireless companies...

Yes, because we all know how much of a wildly popular success that "FLO" thing was for Qualcomm... ::)
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This is a somewhat different thing from the FLO idea; the wireless industry isn't asking to use channel 51*, they want it to be a guard band between their services and relatively high-powered TV stations.

It is disturbing that this freeze was adopted so quickly and without public comment.


* yet.
 
Instead of "voluntary", how about "market-forced", ie, that there are too many broadcast OTA stations even now, and some of them can be expected to go bye-bye soon. I know it's just been sold, but here in Boston, WMFP-TV 18, and I think it identifies itself as channel 18 unlike many other outlets that have moved to new channels (WMFP-TV analog was on channel 62) probably has literally only a handful of viewers if that at certain times.
 
w9wi said:
It is disturbing that this freeze was adopted so quickly and without public comment.
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Roger that. It seems you can get whatever you want from this administration if you
play ball with them (as in low-cost broadband service for low income areas, etc.)
 
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