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This Could Justify WPVI-DT Moving To UHF...

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

Word on the New England TV board is that WHDH-DT 7 has filed with the FCC to stay on UHF 42.

Not trying to throw more gasoline on the fire, but based on this development, could this eventually lead to WPVI breaking down and reallocating to a UHF position? I know they just increased their power on 6 but I think that's just temporary...
 
DToTheJ said:
Word on the New England TV board is that WHDH-DT 7 has filed with the FCC to stay on UHF 42.

Not trying to throw more gasoline on the fire, but based on this development, could this eventually lead to WPVI breaking down and reallocating to a UHF position? I know they just increased their power on 6 but I think that's just temporary...
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Thing is, WHDH had a UHF frequency it could move to. Their pre-transition DTV channel was "within core" and no other station had been assigned a channel it would interfere with. Really, WHDH was VERY lucky on that account.

It's not that the FCC is unwilling to let WPVI move back to their pre-transition DTV channel, it's that the FCC is unable to do so. WPVI's pre-transition DTV channel 64 simply no longer exists as a TV channel. Just as 884-890MHz -- "Channel 83" -- is no longer available for displaced translators. The refarming of channels 52-69 is an Act of Congress. The FCC cannot undo it -- cannot decide on its own to delay the transfer of channel 64 to non-broadcast services. Only Congress can do that.

As has been discussed (at great length :) ) on the National TV board, there is no other channel available to the station.
 
w9wi said:
As has been discussed (at great length  :)  ) on the National TV board, there is no other channel available to the station. 
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That's a darn shame that WPVI will have as of right now unless it somehow changes via something, permanent  signal problems due to them being on a low end VHF channel. I blame the FCC, not WPVI for this.  WHY did the FCC gave WPVI channel 64 in the first, knowing that this channel will no longer be used as of 6/12/09?
 
Julius May said:
WHY did the FCC gave WPVI channel 64 in the first, knowing that this channel will no longer be used as of 6/12/09?
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My guess is that since WPVI had planned to use channel 6 after the digital transition, the FCC felt it would be more convenient for both sides to issue WPVI a temporary digital channel on UHF above 52, knowing that part of the spectrum, more or less, would also undergo a dramatic change in addition to the VHF band.
 
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