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How should stations now be listed?

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PaulRAnderson

With the arrival of RTN on WMFP Lawrence, I was going to write the Nashua Telegraph to ask them to carry listings for WMFP, now that they carry shows instead of home shopping.

If they did, what channel number would they use? Even newspapers that carried listings for WMFP on analog channel 62 would need to change that channel number, because doesn't WMFP use their digital channel number 18 to identify themselves? On screen, they show channel 18.1.

Would the paper use 18? 18.1? Obviously, stations that identify themselves with their old analog channel would be listed as that channel, although what happens to the additional channels?

So would listing WMFP as channel 18 be correct, assuming the paper wasn't going to list content on the subchannels?

I think WNEU Merrimack (digital channel 34) is about the only other station I can think of locally that has discarded their analog channel identification and uses their digital number now. So my question also applies to WNEU. Listing the station as channel 60 in the paper is now useless, right?

Paul
 
Stations should still be identified by their "Legacy" channel number, unless they never had a separate Digital (simulcast) channel.

Good luck on getting anyone in the print industry to acknowledge the existance of DTV, though. Unless its an article about some granny or an MSEE who "can't get anything on Digital", they ignore it. As for listings, most say that there isn't enough space to print the local stations' line-ups, "since no one watches DTV yet, anyway". ::)
 
I think the legacy channel numbers should be used. After all, isn't that how most TVs and displays show it anyways? My TV shows "3-1" for CBS Hartford, even though their digital is on channel 33. They still heavily ID as "Channel 3 Eyewitness News".
 
I don't have a digital TV so I incorrectly assumed WMFP was using a PSIP of 18 since their station ID slide says 18.1.

So Channel 62 it is.

There are some newspapers that have listed 62 for years even though the shows were all home shopping.

Paul
 
How about listing stations by call letters, and network affiliations, if any...
It would require some "rebranding", however...
 
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