VHF 2-6 post-DTV: Not likely ...?

[KMRichards]

The FCC has released the master list of channel elections for DTV:

<a target="_blank" href=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-05-1743A2.pdf>http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-05-1743A2.pdf</a>

Only 45 stations have chosen low-V channels ... 4 in Alaska; 3 each in Michigan, Montana, and South Dakota; 2 each in Colorado, Georgia, Nebraska, Nevada, Tennessee, Virginia, and Wyoming; and one each in Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, North Carolina, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Wisconsin, and West Virginia.

Guam's lone station also has selected a low-V channel.

With this few stations electing for low-V, I don't see the FCC doing anything other than making the core channels 7 through 51 and forcing this handful to choose channels in that range.
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[bpatrick]

> The FCC has released the master list of channel elections
> for DTV:
>
http:/> /hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-05-1743A2.pdf
>
>
> Only 45 stations have chosen low-V channels ... 4 in Alaska;
> 3 each in Michigan, Montana, and South Dakota; 2 each in
> Colorado, Georgia, Nebraska, Nevada, Tennessee, Virginia,
> and Wyoming; and one each in Alabama, Arizona, California,
> Florida, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine,
> North Carolina, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Wisconsin,
> and West Virginia.
>
> Guam's lone station also has selected a low-V channel.
>
> With this few stations electing for low-V, I don't see the
> FCC doing anything other than making the core channels 7
> through 51 and forcing this handful to choose channels in
> that range.

Somebody at ABC must be wishing DTV had come along in 1948.
At the time, it appeared that the government was going to
turn Channels 2 through 6 over to the military, making 7
the most desirable channel. That's why ABC's original five o&os
(New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Detroit)
are all on 7. As we know, 2 through 6 were not allocated
to the military. But if 7 had been the first channel on the
VHF dial, ABC might not have had the long struggle to get
to number one.

Back to the subject. What Georgia station chose a low VHF?
WXIA-DT is on Channel 10, so I know that's not it.


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[KMRichards]

> Back to the subject. What Georgia station chose a low VHF?
> WXIA-DT is on Channel 10, so I know that's not it.

WABW Pelham.
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