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Sinclair pulling a Birmingham/Charleston in Las Vegas...and Tallahassee?

but as Tripin VA noted over at satelliteguys (since mcvg apparently likes to post his "thoughts" EVERYWHERE)

There is no information suggesting that WDSI is preparing to go off the air nor that This TV will be going away or moving. No station Sinclair has purchased or been involved in has gone off the air, even if affiliations were shuffled around.
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Well, it happened. FOX is now only on WTVC 9.2 in Chattanooga, and has changed its branding from "FOX 61" to "FOX Chattanooga". WDSI meanwhile has ThisTV on 61.1 and Comet TV on 61.2. MNT has moved to WFLI 53.2. Chattanooga is now the largest market (and first Top 100 market) to have FOX on a subchannel of a Big 3 station.
http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=22590#station
http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=72060#station
http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=22590#station
 
With WPFO-TV: I think their site is because of how they started out (hence the Waterville city of license). They were once WMPX-TV. They were going to be a PAX affiliate. Then the letters and affiliation changed. I believe their present transmitter is in Litchfield, ME, the same site of WCBB-TV (PBS) channel 10 of Augusta.

To think, if Pegasus never had the whole mess with WPXT-TV channel 51 of Portland! That station, along with a station they owned in Jackson, MS, was switched from FOX to WB in fall 2001. Many Maine residents had to rely on the old FOXNET service (cable only) or got WFXT-TV channel 25 from Boston. WGME-TV (CBS) channel 13 of Portland ended up airing Super Bowl XXXVI. The weird twist was that said deal was struck before it was known the Patriots would be in that game.
 
Is it me or is Sinclair having something against Fox? I thought Fox was the leading affiliate for Sinclair. Why would some former Fox stations flip to lesser known networks and Fox to a subchannel? Am I missing something?
 
E-Cam said:
Is it me or is Sinclair having something against Fox? I thought Fox was the leading affiliate for Sinclair. Why would some former Fox stations flip to lesser known networks and Fox to a subchannel? Am I missing something?
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It's nothing against Fox, it's because of FCC regulations. They couldn't own WTVC and WDSI at the same time, but the Fox affiliation is valuable, so it went to 9.2 while New Age pretty much runs a dead station carrying This and Comet (and these days, ABC and Fox on one signal is optimum since they both run 720p signals). WTVC's signal range is also much broader than WDSI, and in the digital age, outside of a few areas, marketing a +60 channel number is pretty much solidifying you in fourth/fifth place for years to come.
 
also VHF signals "bend" over mountains better.
And 61 is only running at 84,000 watts (1 million watts is max on UHF)
 
How would this affect Traverse City? Sinclair owns the NBC and ABC stations. The market is so big there needs to be two stations to cover most of the market. If I were Sinclair, I'd keep the WPBN and WGTQ signals as they are more powerful than WGTU and WTOM. They could spin the latter two off, with the new owner affiliating with the CW (the current CW affiliate is in crappy SD (despite Charter recently upgrading to an all-digital system in the market), with no idea whether Sinclair or Charter is running it).

Here is how I feel it would go:
7.1/8.1 - NBC
7.2/8.2 - ABC
7.3/8.3 - Grit

29.1/4.1 - CW
Likely other subchannels (maybe Grit gets put on 29.2/4.2)
 
ftballfan said:
How would this affect Traverse City? Sinclair owns the NBC and ABC stations. The market is so big there needs to be two stations to cover most of the market.
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Squashing them down to two would be counter-intuitive (SBG hasn't even put on any subchannel networks, deciding to simulcast both stations on each signal). The Traverse-East UP market is so large you want all the full power stations possible to relay the signal, and civic pride would eventually get in there too. Also blame Sinclair for the CW infrastructure; they're the ones that choose to run it in SD on cable-only and relay it to Charter in that manner.
 
mrschimpf said:
Squashing them down to two would be counter-intuitive (SBG hasn't even put on any subchannel networks, deciding to simulcast both stations on each signal). The Traverse-East UP market is so large you want all the full power stations possible to relay the signal, and civic pride would eventually get in there too. Also blame Sinclair for the CW infrastructure; they're the ones that choose to run it in SD on cable-only and relay it to Charter in that manner.
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7.1 (RF 47 @ 500kW) and 29.1 (RF 29 @ 68.4 kW) do broadcast from the same tower east of Kalkaska. 4.1 (RF 35 @ 78kW from Cheboygan) and 8.1 (RF 8 @ 15kW from Goetzville) are located about 20 miles apart. They're all grossly underpowered except 7.1 (thanks Barrington). Also, 7.1 going 500kW on 47 was only possible by the FOX affiliate moving its digital RF signal (after the transition) from 47 to 32 and moving from east of Kalkaska to southeast of Cadillac. Their transition facility was only 78kW on RF 50 from their studio tower west of Traverse City. The Channel 50 transmitter is now used as a 15kW fill-in from 7's old analog tower near Harrietta.
 
Changes coming to the CW in central PA

Changes are coming to the CW in central Pennsylvania.

The CW 15 will soon become The CW Central PA.

If viewers are watching the CW 15 using an antenna, beginning January 1, televisions will need to be re-scanned to find channel 21.3. That is where The CW Central PA will be found.

To re-scan a TV, run the "scan" function on the digital television or converter box. Usually the "scan" function by pressing "set-up" or "menu" on the remote control.

Consult the owner's manual for more detailed instructions on how to perform a channel scan. Once the scan is finished, you should be set up to watch The CW on 21.3.
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http://www.local21news.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/Changes-coming-to-the-CW-245387.shtml

Hasn't shown up on RabbitEars yet. What will take CW's place on 15.1? And will 21.3 be HD?
 
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