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Ch6 and 61

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Do these two stations need some technical help? The screen is either frozen for hours or even days at a time

or the screen is blank. Usually the problem is on ch 6 which I believe is beamed from the Sears Tower. Is ch61

beamed from Sears or is it just sent from Rochelle's tower? Anyone know?.... Thankyou...
 
overtheair said:
Do these two stations need some technical help? The screen is either frozen for hours or even days at a time

or the screen is blank. Usually the problem is on ch 6 which I believe is beamed from the Sears Tower. Is ch61

beamed from Sears or is it just sent from Rochelle's tower? Anyone know?.... Thankyou...
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Wow, lol. That's funny, cuz I passed the station today on my analog television and it was all BLACK. I had wondered why since I never have seen 61 like that before. It's a channel that's usually got static (I can't pick it up on my analog tv). Later I went back to it, it was STATIC-Y again.
 
I noticed on the radio at 87.7, the signal for WLFM-LP is now stronger than the past. The stereo light is now lit up. And, the mostly English-language 'MTV Tres' is now gone, replaced with different Spanish-language programming.


I do not remember any stereo light for for WITI Milwaukee (Channel 6), at 87.7, which I used to pull-in until the low-power TV station from Chicago went on the air.

The FCC website doesn't even list that the station is on the air. If you look it up, the FCC indicates only a Construction Permit and Applications for Channel 6, and they still show that the former channel (Channel 55) is licensed.

According to the FCC's map, the signal of this low power TV station does not reach the city of license (Rochelle, Illinois) which is about 75 miles west of Chicago.

Map for Channel 55 (former channel number):
http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/FMTV-service-area?x=TX1109810.html

Map for Channel 6 (Construction Permit and Application, which is actually on the air now):
http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/FMTV-service-area?x=TX1200648.html

I thought the requirement is that a station must cover it's city of license? Why the change from Channel 55 to 6? Is there a large Spanish-speaking population in Rochelle, Illinois?
 
avtosalon said:
The FCC website doesn't even list that the station is on the air. If you look it up, the FCC indicates only a Construction Permit and Applications for Channel 6, and they still show that the former channel (Channel 55) is licensed.
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A station *must* operate at least briefly under a construction permit, in order to do the proof-of-performance measurements that prove the new facilities are operating according to the license. They can't apply for a permanent license until those measurements are made.

Once the application for permanent license is filed, the station can also ask for "program test authority". This allows them to begin broadcasting while the FCC works on the actual license.

So a station may well be on the air even if its status in the FCC CDBS is still "Construction Permit".

The old (ch. 55) facilities will continue to show up as "licensed" until the license is issued for channel 6. (because technically, the FCC could dismiss their application for license-to-cover for channel 6 at which point the station could be required to return to channel 55. Mind you, this almost never happens, but it *could*.)

I thought the requirement is that a station must cover it's city of license?
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There is no principal community coverage rule for LPTV stations.
 
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