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DTV Channel Changes

tripinva

tripinva

In the latest filing window, the FCC allowed stations to apply for channel changes in addition to maximizing their digital signals after 02/17/09. Here's a list on my site of all those applications, if there are any of interest.

http://www.rabbitears.info/chchg.php

I think these are most interesting:

WSAH wants to move to the Empire State Building on channel 41.

WWSI wants to move to 10. This would clear the way for WPVI to move to channel 48, if they wanted it.

WETA and WWPX both want 51. WWPX wants to move to the mountaintop with WINC-FM in the process. I predict WETA gets it because WWPX is improperly spaced to WDCW.

WWAZ in Fond du Lac wants to do channel 9 from the main tower site in Milwaukee.

WPGD in the Nashville market is getting paid off by a cell phone company to leave channel 51 to prevent interference to their wireless services on what will be the former channel 52.

WBRA choosing 26... it's interesting to me because I live in the market. But I have actual issues with it too.

Pappas is obsessed with getting a station in the Evansville/Owensboro market. I think I've seen that application at least 5 different times.

WFUP had said they were going to turn in their license on 02/17/09, but I guess someone had a change of heart. That, or they just wanted to get out of building DT-59 badly enough to risk their license.

Fight over channel 11 brewing in Columbus GA.

Anyway, I hope others here find it as interesting as I do. =)

- Trip
 
tripinva said:
WETA and WWPX both want 51. WWPX wants to move to the mountaintop with WINC-FM in the process. I predict WETA gets it because WWPX is improperly spaced to WDCW.


- Trip
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I think it will be WETA who would win this as well. Besides if WWPX would move to the same mountaintop as WINC-FM would that mean a change of city of license from Martinsburg, WV to Winchester, VA?

This isn't the first time Martinsburg's channel 60 tried to "move" to Winchester. Back in 1995 Winchester's WUSQ-FM ( Benchmark Communications ) came very close to a deal to buy channel 60 and plans were to move that station ( at least the studios ) to Winchester and leave the transmitter behind in Martinsburg. But some civic leaders in Martinsburg did not like the idea and WUSQ dropped the idea. As a result channel 60 went dark for a time.
 
No, the proposed signal continues to cover Martinsburg. No need to change the city of license.

- Trip
 
tripinva said:
WWAZ in Fond du Lac wants to do channel 9 from the main tower site in Milwaukee.
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...hunh??!? How is *that* going to fly?? I think they'd be further ahead trying for space in Appleton -- perhaps atop the Zuelke Building? -- that would allow them an equal shot at the city of license and Green Bay. Milwaukee is way too far south, unless they plan on petitioning for a change in COL too...
 
48 sounds like it might work in Evansville/Owensboro ... but what programming would it air? Steal MyNet from 38? :p
 
Here's another (which we discussed on another thread) DTV channel change that needs to occur: either DTV 19, allocated to both Chicago (WGN-DT) and Peoria (WHOI-DT). I know WHOI decided to remain on 19 instead of moving to its original digital allocation (40), but what other channel could WGN had moved to other than 19? Could it have even been feasible to remain on channel 9 after the transition?
 
I also just realized, in northwestern Illinois, that DTV channel 23 is allocated to both Rockford (CBS affiliate WIFR-DT, with tower west of Winnebago outside of Rockford city proper) and Moline (PBS station WQPT-DT, with their stick near Orion, IL, 15 miles south of the Quad Cities). There will likely be major interference problems between the two stations in parts of Lee, Whiteside, and Carroll counties in Illinois (which will be particularly troublesome for PBS viewers in those areas as Rockford lacks its own PBS station). That is a more, IMO, blatant example of a DTV channel change that needs to occur in Illinois (in addition to the whole WGN/WHOI dual allocation of channel 19 post-transition).
 
If you'd visited my link, Tim, you'd see that WIFR applied to stick with channel 41 after all. Problem solved. =)

- Trip
 
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