U.S. Translators that repeated non-U.S. stations?

[mjlarochelle]

Thing I can't figure out is why they'd relay XETV rather than pointing the receiving antenna toward Mt. Wilson and relaying KABC-TV, Channel 7 in Los Angeles, instead...KABC ought to be easier to pull in...

It's surprising to me too, based on the mountainous terrain between Palm Springs and San Diego that probably would block most OTA reception from the south.

At first I thought perhaps ABC did not permit rebroadcast transmission of its O&O stations at that time as there were no KABC translators anywhere, but then I noticed KGO had a translator in Ukiah. Could have been an individual station policy for all we know.

 

[OhioMediaWatch]

IIRC, the Montana translators that carry Alberta stations are owned by one of those local non-profit translator associations. I'm not sure how they get away with running, say, CTV feeds across the border, except that the area may be outside the nearest U.S. market's usable signal.

 

[w9wi]

IIRC, the Montana translators that carry Alberta stations are owned by one of those local non-profit translator associations. I'm not sure how they get away with running, say, CTV feeds across the border, except that the area may be outside the nearest U.S. market's usable signal.

Yep, they all belong to groups like the "East Glacier TV Association". To my knowledge translators are held to the same ownership rules that prohibit control of full-power stations by foreigners -- i.e., the translators cannot be owned by the Canadian stations they carry.

 

[OhioMediaWatch]

Yep, they all belong to groups like the "East Glacier TV Association". To my knowledge translators are held to the same ownership rules that prohibit control of full-power stations by foreigners -- i.e., the translators cannot be owned by the Canadian stations they carry.

But what about retransmitting the CTV content that has American rights on other networks? Are the translators far enough away from the nearest Montana U.S. affiliates?

 

[mjlarochelle]

Yep, they all belong to groups like the "East Glacier TV Association". To my knowledge translators are held to the same ownership rules that prohibit control of full-power stations by foreigners -- i.e., the translators cannot be owned by the Canadian stations they carry.

But what about retransmitting the CTV content that has American rights on other networks? Are the translators far enough away from the nearest Montana U.S. affiliates?

K63AQ Sweetgrass, one of the translators broadcasting CISA (a Global O&O), is located less than one mile south of the Canadian border along I-15. According to a TV Fool map, the largest community served by the translator is Coutts, Alberta, which straddles the border with Montana and is basically a continuation of Sweetgrass. TV Fool also shows that the only other U.S. signal readily available in the area is K48AI, a translator for KRTV/3 (CBS) Great Falls, MT.