According to northpine.com, Northwest Television finally got a construction permit to build a new HDTV-only station on channel 53 from Galesburg! No word on where the transmitter will actually be, but I wonder what kind of programming will air....Will it steal the CW from KGCW? Better yet, it should be the new home for My Network TV, since it's only on a low-powered station right now. Anyway, let's hear some speculations!
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New TV station in QC market?
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EnergyDeKalb2
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Not sure about the Galesburg station, but I do want to speculate that WQPT will end up being bought and changed to a commercial station. I don't neccessarily agree with that, but I bet it happens.
EnergyDeKalb2 said:
Channel 24 is reserved for non-commercial operation. (as is the companion DTV channel) WQPT can't be changed to commercial operation unless they get that reservation lifted. It is VERY rare (indeed, to the best of my knowledge unheardof) for the FCC to lift a non-commercial reservation unless an alternate channel is available to which the reservation can be attached.
In the few cases where a non-commercial station *has* gone commercial, it's been operating on a non-reserved channel.
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