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Once the stations go digital, what is going to happen to the frequency's? For example. New York's 87.7 is now a full fledged station broadcasting. It is the audio signal from a low power TV station. I think in Chicago, when you tune to 87.7 you hear fox 32. Will they be able to broker that signal out for radio?
 
BlueTights said:
Once the stations go digital, what is going to happen to the frequency's? For example. New York's 87.7 is now a full fledged station broadcasting. It is the audio signal from a low power TV station. I think in Chicago, when you tune to 87.7 you hear fox 32. Will they be able to broker that signal out for radio?

I think what you're hearing is the Fox station from *Milwaukee* which is on analog channel 6. It will go away next February, Fox 6 is moving to digital channel 33.

There is a permit for a LPTV station, technically licensed to Rochelle, to move to the John Hancock Center and operate on analog channel 6. It could operate as a radio station for awhile if it wished. However it too will have to go digital eventually and when it does it will no longer come in on FM radios.
 
The Rochelle LPTV station from the Hancock Center on ch. 6 has been on the air for a while now. They carry the MTV3 music channel.
 
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