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What Happened to WNXY 26 and WXNY 32

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Fire1047FM

last thursday,channels 26,32,and 39 went dead air,now that 39 is back on the air,35 is still showing
test bars,lately in NYC,some DXers have DXed WFLD/WCIU(same channels) From Chicagoland.
 
Word on the "other" NY board is that 6/26/32/35 were sold, and that there's repair work being done at the transmitter sites. 39 was also sold, to Azteca America. The Azteca simulcast on those other stations was just a placeholder, apparently. 6/32 are still for sale from what I understand, and 26/35 were purchased, but no word who did or what sort of programming will go on those stations.

Channel 6, of course, has the 87.75 FM audio carrier, which has been operating as a full-time Russian radio station for over a year now, with a killer signal that goes far into NJ, LI and Connecticut. The video signal, on the other hand, is almost non-existent.
 
How could channel 6 have a video signal in northern New Jersey, NYC area? Wouldn't that interfear with WPVI ABC 6 from Philadelphia? In almost all of NJ (execpt Bergen, Passaic, Essex, and Hudson counties) and on the south shore of Staten Island in New York City ABC 6 from Philly can be recieved off an over the air roof top antenna.
 
Red Bull Ed said:
How could channel 6 have a video signal in northern New Jersey, NYC area? Wouldn't that interfear with WPVI ABC 6 from Philadelphia? In almost all of NJ (execpt Bergen, Passaic, Essex, and Hudson counties) and on the south shore of Staten Island in New York City ABC 6 from Philly can be recieved off an over the air roof top antenna.
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You must have misunderstood. Ch. 6 does NOT have a video signal in Northern NJ, or practically anywhere for that matter. It is really, really directional and even when I lived in Astoria when it first signed on, just a couple of miles from the Citicorp Tower where it broadcasts, I barely got a trace of a picture.

On the other hand, the AUDIO signal, which is what I was talking about and which can be heard on 87.75 FM (most radios will get it on 87.7), blasts into New Jersey, Westchester, Connecticut and Long Island and covers the five boroughs very well.
 
Red Bull Ed said:
How could channel 6 have a video signal in northern New Jersey, NYC area? Wouldn't that interfear with WPVI ABC 6 from Philadelphia? In almost all of NJ (execpt Bergen, Passaic, Essex, and Hudson counties) and on the south shore of Staten Island in New York City ABC 6 from Philly can be recieved off an over the air roof top antenna.
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It's a LPTV ("low-power") station. (and as the other poster says, very directional)

There's another one on channel 3 in Brooklyn.
 
w9wi said:
Red Bull Ed said:
How could channel 6 have a video signal in northern New Jersey, NYC area? Wouldn't that interfear with WPVI ABC 6 from Philadelphia? In almost all of NJ (execpt Bergen, Passaic, Essex, and Hudson counties) and on the south shore of Staten Island in New York City ABC 6 from Philly can be recieved off an over the air roof top antenna.
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It's a LPTV ("low-power") station. (and as the other poster says, very directional)

There's another one on channel 3 in Brooklyn.
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Also, even if Ch. 6 from Philly is received in North Jersey, it doesn't really matter much if that is outside their protected coverage area.

I've noticed during some evenings, for instance, horizontal lines on Ch. 17 (a local low-power religious station) which are caused from interference with WPHL in Philadelphia, here in Queens!

About the Ch. 3 in Brooklyn...wasn't that a low-power HD channel? Or is it a regular analog signal? Is there any programming whatsoever or is it just infomercials and such?
 
Channel 3 used to be The Box (and later MTV2) station that was on 38. They were granted an application to move to channel 3 and go digital a few years back.
 
StephanieNYC said:
Doesn't transmitting on Channel 3 interfere with VCRs and cable boxes? ???

Remember you have to set the TV to channel 3 to use those.
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Actually, you don't. Units like those are configurable to either 3 or 4 usually. I've seen one that used 2 or 3, but that was years ago. Unless you're getting a huge amount of RF on the channel you're going to use, it won't cause a problem. Most people in the metro can use 4 without any noticeable interference from WNBC.
 
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