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One WTC
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Not really. All of the noncomm allocations are done with contour protection. WKCR is protected out to their 60dBu, and have to protect others 60dBu (this is a greatly simplified explanation not taking into account 1st, 2nd and 3rd adjacent channels).
It will be difficult if not impossible for WKCR to move back to 1 WTC at the same coverage, because other stations have taken advantage of the move northward to improve their signals.
It will be difficult if not impossible for WKCR to move back to 1 WTC at the same coverage, because other stations have taken advantage of the move northward to improve their signals.
The simple fact that 1 WTC is nearing completion, and the developers have stated their intention to make it a broadcast site. I'm sure pending apps move that decision along.
Just a general curiosity if any of the radio stations formerly on WTC will move back. The original site was lousy for radio as the master antenna was too close to the roof, but the shape of the new building as well as the increased height shouldn't pose the same problem.
Just a general curiosity if any of the radio stations formerly on WTC will move back. The original site was lousy for radio as the master antenna was too close to the roof, but the shape of the new building as well as the increased height shouldn't pose the same problem.
Plus, the radiation and reflection concerns that existed with two towers, no longer exist.WNTIRadio said:
I guess the curiosity got the best of all the people who were saying the new WTC wouldn't be using a real antenna for broadcasting. Yeah, go ahead and try, my curiosity would be there, too.
I still say, OTA TV is dead as a sales tool.
Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
badjef said:
Don't be so sure. I know a good number of people from the younger generation that are cutting the expensive cable cord to go the route of OTA TV and Netflix/Hulu/Apple TV.
Count me among those. Put up a nice log periodic antenna to get all the Philly stations 75 miles away. Can't get NYC due to a rather large mountain to my east. Have Hulu and Netflix on the Internet. In fact, I'm so cheap I've never had cable in my life. My parents had it, but I couldn't justify $80 a month for tv.
I have an antenna aimed toward Ft. Myers from my home in Sa-ra-so-ta! for the blacked-out Buccaneer games, as well. But I remember when the Philly channels, carried the blacked-out Giant games. Those channels could be picked up from Union and Essex Counties.
But there have been so many changes in content delivery and skrewing around with the death of analog and the botched transition, you may find others watching OTA, but there is no money demographic to justify it anymore. It isn't worth the electricity or tower rent, especially in NYC!
Where is the OTA for YES?
Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
But there have been so many changes in content delivery and skrewing around with the death of analog and the botched transition, you may find others watching OTA, but there is no money demographic to justify it anymore. It isn't worth the electricity or tower rent, especially in NYC!
Where is the OTA for YES?
Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
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