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Please clarify. I presume "tule" is not a misspelling of the city in Greenland but "rule" but what rule are you referring to.
Yes sorry typo, I don’t work in the radio industry so I don’t know the correct term. But it’s my understanding that no radio station can use the 87.9 signal. Is this the case only in houston?
87.9 isn't a legal FM channel, except in a tiny handful of cases involving noncommercial educational FMs.
"87.9" in San Antonio brands itself as 87.9 because it's the lowest many FM tuners can go. It's actually on (or just above) 87.7, because it's actually the audio carrier of a low-power analog TV station on channel 6, KFLZ-LP. If you have a sufficiently selective tuner in SA and you tune it precisely to 87.90, it will sound distorted - tune it to 87.75 and it will come in clearly, at least for the next few months until analog LPTVs have to go digital or go away.
What do you think will happen to the FrankenFMs when the clock runs out? Will they use the pandemic to request a stay, or ask for rulemaking by the "new" commission to grandfather them?
As many are aware, the one in Chicago is at or near #10 in 12+ ratings so it is quite measurably popular.
The one in Atlanta was doing well....
Not really. It has averaged 28th in 12+ in recent months, with about 1/30th of the WSB audience.
The Chicago station is tied with WGN with around a 3 share recently.
I seem to remember hearing some of them are asking for what basically amounts to a ”stay of execution.” No idea if they'll get it or not, but an engineer friend of mine thinks the arguments they’re raising are pretty ludicrous.
The one in Chicago is supposedly upgrading to the digital TV transmission while embedding the analog audio FM signal.
Plans for Chicago
Plans for Chicago
My interpretation is analog TV era Channel 6 FMs were supposed to be running rule and policy compliant aural carrier ERP for their FM audio.
Yes, but which rules? Unless the Part 73 technical rules were explicitly incorporated into Part 74, there's a solid argument that stations licensed under Part 74 weren't bound by those rules.
I remember reading about that, though, last I'd heard, there was no guarantee the FCC would allow it. WRGB in Albany tried to do either the same thing or something very similar only to conclude the FCC would have to authorize it, which it didn't seem willing to do.
I researched a 1996 CFR. Scott Fybush is correct.
73.1560 (2) 22 percent aural ERP rule I was remembering applies to full power analog TV stations, but not to LPTV stations (at that time).
73.1560 (2) 22 percent aural ERP rule I was remembering applies to full power analog TV stations, but not to LPTV stations (at that time).
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In Houston TV RF Channel 6 is supposed to be occupied by KCVH (Aleluya TV) which was displaced from RF Channel 30 during the Spring 2019 TV repack (KXLN wound up on RF30.) I don't think KCVH has made it back on the air yet. Supposedly Aleluya is currently on the 5.3 subchannel of KTDJ, but I can't verify that, having no reception of that channel at my Cy-Fair location.
Channels 6-1 and 6-2 are on the air. It's hard to get a decent signal in Tomball.
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Is it actually Aleluya TV that you are seeing? According to Rabbitears.info the station should be using virtual 30.1 and 30.2.
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