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Mt Wilson FM's Bellingham LDTV Permit

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I noticed K12XV-D , a construction permit owned by Mt Wilson FM, has filed to re-locate from VHF-12 to UHF-30. Because this will be co-channel with KOMO-TV Seattle, the proposed Mt. Constitution antenna will become directional northward. The US coverage area will be trimmed back to just Whatcom, Skagit and San Juan Counties; the Canadian coverage (Lower Mainland, Victoria) will remain the same.

The proposed coverage map is here:

 
will this affect the Canadian cable system pick up KOMO-TV OTA? Does Canadian cable system still pick up Seattle tv stations by OTA? Or they use Satellite, microwave or telephone lines?
 
e-dawg said:
will this affect the Canadian cable system pick up KOMO-TV OTA? Does Canadian cable system still pick up Seattle tv stations by OTA? Or they use Satellite, microwave or telephone lines?
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I had no idea that was a thing. I always assumed any cable feed was always delivered via satellite (same for watching CBC if you’re watching from the Seattle market).

Either way, it seems like a pretty tight squeeze. There was no other available channel? Or no potential deal to borrow a sub channel from one of the other TV stations on Orcas Island?

Either way, I don’t know if there’s much KOMO can do about it, since it’s technically out of market. But perhaps it’s not a lose cause. I believe KIRO FM was successfully able to convince Saga to change the frequency of one of their translators (after intending to use 97.3). I believe KIRO demonstrated that they have listeners in Whatcom County, and that the interference would be detrimental. There’s no argument for the viewers on the Canadian side of the border (which is probably zero), but throw Whatcom county in the argument and it could be worth a try.
 
When I worked at KCPQ the pickup point for our signal to be delivered to Canada was somewhere in Snohomish County IIRC. This was for the Bell DTH service. It was then sent via fiber to the Bell uplink centre. I'm guessing that this was also distributed to cable headends and the signal for KOMO may be handled the same way.
 
It's my understanding that most of the OTA receive points for Canadian distribution are in the US. At one time, I know the Boston signals were received at a small outbuilding at the Cabot Street TV tower site, where they were uplinked to a Canadian satellite. I believe those satellite uplinks have largely been replaced by fiber these days. I don't know where my local WUHF (which is the default Fox feed to much of Canada) gets uplinked from, come to think of it. But it's been a long time since Canada has depended on cross-border OTA reception to feed cable. The receive point at Deseronto, Ontario that used to get Rochester's WROC/WHEC/WOKR to feed to the Ottawa area via microwave is long gone. Now Ottawa gets Detroit instead.
 
At one time, Fisher-Blend had a downlink/uplink on Guemes Island, across the channel from Anacortes. The tower has been sold off but a few VHF antennas pointing north (and south) still remain. Adjacent to the site are some satellite dishes, probably inactive. Originally I thought it was a cable headend but tracing the tower ownership brought up the Fisher-Blend name. Scones and strawberries for you all!

(I am sure Shaw-Direct and Bell TV get all their cross-border content via fiber or specially authorized satellite receivers.)
 
In the early 70's I worked at a Cable TV company when CRTC gave us the green light to add ABC to the lineup in Calgary (from Spokane). I remember it being a big deal that was dependent on an engineer going to Southern B/C to make some adjustments to a microwave. Took two days to link content to the cable channel reserved for that network.

These days I assume the technology mirrors whatever the ownership groups are using that allows all master control operations for multiple markets to be controlled in one spot -- probably fiber.
 
K18NJ also has solid coverage in the region.. Althoigh it looks like a religious grouo owns it the signal seems to be a relay of KBTC (PBS)
 
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