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WGSR files for channel 47 DTV

I think this will be a good move for WGSR-TV, if they can get enough coverage
in the Triad, maybe "Time Warner Cable" will eventually pick them up, they
deserve it!
 
It would be refreshing to see local TV content. Monday Night Live sounds like a train wreck; but it's bound to be better than the re-runs that everyone else is passing off as entertainment.
 
Good to see that we have folks monitoring the FCC, but this is only the beginning of the process. I'm buying more stock in Maalox. It may replace coffee in my diet before we throw Star News on this thing. :S

Anyway...here's something you might find interesting... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uoyvvFguDc

Later....
Matt Smith
WGSR-TV
 
Good news...nearly a year after the process began, plus three amendments to our construction permit application, ragged fingernails and a river of Maalox, the CP (technically called a "displacement") was approved today by the FCC.

It's still listed as an application on the FCC's CDBS records (we're told that will be changed by Friday), but the move will more than double our output power, triple our tower height and add to our viewable over-the-air footprint coverage to Greensboro, Burlington and Danville. It will take our signal into five North Carolina Counties where our signal has never been.

[url]http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/FMTV-service-area?x=LD1271932.html [/url]

Now the rush begins, with equipment orders starting next week. Our goal is to be up and running with the new digital signal on February 17th, 2009. Now the fun stuff starts :)

Later....
 
I also want to send my congradulations as well, i hope you will all start talks with
Time Warner Cable soon and they can make room somehow to put WGSR-TV on
the air in Greensboro, Burlington, and maybe by fiber optic, to Winston-Salem,
High Point and others in the Triad, which would put you all on the map at last,
i watch you occasionally online, and your station has a good product that viewers
in your part of North Carolina will take notice.
 
We will do something eventually, but right now we're pushing hard to get the digital up and running. Initially, we'll do 47.1 in 480p, and upgrade to 780p and add a locally-oriented all-sports subchannel as soon as market conditions allow us to do it (translation: don't look for it before 2010-11).

Of course, we would be open to a partnership to create a digital subchannel if we have assurance that we can make $$$ on it fairly quickly.

I've got more news to share in a couple of weeks . . . or maybe sooner. Stay tuned.

Later . . . .
 
We were never considering the tower you have in mind. Briefly, we gave thought to the idea of buying some land and putting up our own tower in that area, but realized that the WGPX tower would be more efficient and faster to get us on the air.

BTW . . . WJMH still has backup facilities in Reidsville. They're on Business 29 North, just beyond NC 14, where WREV and the former WMMO studios are. The tower's still up there, with the FM antenna mounted at the top.

Later . . . .
 
Matt Smith said:
BTW . . . WJMH still has backup facilities in Reidsville. They're on Business 29 North, just beyond NC 14, where WREV and the former WMMO studios are. The tower's still up there, with the FM antenna mounted at the top
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I don't think that is right. There is nothing in the FCC database about that. It shows their main site at 68 and 220 and a 2.5kw site east of High Point at 3351 Wall Rd, Greensboro. Nothing even close to Reidsville.

I went for a tour of WREV about 15 years ago and there were some people in the old building there working for the cable company and they let me in to see that there was nothing in it but some really old single rack tube transmitter with half of the guts missing and a place where it looked like a transmitter used to sit and some rooms that control rooms used to be with wiring hanging from the ceiling and parts of busted up control furniture just heaped up in the middle of the floor as if someone had broken in and stolen everything. Other parts of the building were nothing but a garbage dump, literally, with rotting household garbage! The WREV building was a very nice building with old equipment in it but it all worked! There was an FM antenna on the tower then with nothing connected to it and WREV used a wire strung vertically off the tower to their building across the driveway. Very interesting antenna system.
 
I remember driving past the old WRNC 1600 studios up there about twelve years ago too. There was only a couple of pieces of furniture in there and most of the place looked kind of gutted, but the signs were still on the cinderblock. I only knew what it was because of the sign, I don't think it was ever active when we lived up in the Triad (1990-2002).
 
I've never heard of this "WGSR." Is there a market for a station with that kind of odd program line-up? Just asking.
 
We are building it. We will know if it is successful soon after that.

BTW . . . . we won't change our plans or our ideas just because some dim-wit says it sucks.

Later . . . .
 
That's good because I don't get anywhere near enough reruns on the 400 channels I get at home.
 
Guarantee 396 of those channels won't ever cover any news from Reidsville.
And only 3 others would do it if it's a real big story.
Only one is actually there....good for them.
 
Matt Smith said:
We are building it. We will know if it is successful soon after that.

BTW . . . . we won't change our plans or our ideas just because some dim-wit says it sucks.

Later . . . .
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WHOA Matt!! I don't think he was trying to cut you down. I think he was asking a legit question. If all you are interested in is covering Reidsville, why spend the money to get into Greensboro and Winston-Salem? I am not trying to pick a fight here, but just trying to understand where you are coming from or in this case going to with this increase of coverage. I would hate to see you spend all that money and then the station go under. Too much of that kind of thing happening nationwide these days.
 
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