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WKLS (Project 9-6-1) audio carried on WANN low power digital TV subchannel 32.13

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As of this past week, the low power digital TV channel in Atlanta, WANN, is carrying the audio of WKLS ("Project 9-6-1") on a dedicated, audio only, digital subchannel 32.13. WANN has been promoting this in a crawler on the bottom of the screen of their other digital subchannels this week. According to WANN's web site (wanntv.com), there may be a number of other audio only digital subchannels coming online in the future on their multiplexed digital OTA signal. For people un-aware of WANN, it broadcasts a over-the-air, low power digital TV signal on physical RF channel 29 (virtual channel 32) from the Richland Tower to a coverage area mainly within the perimeter.

Pretty neat experiment and I wonder if any other local radio stations will be re-broadcast and carried on a subchannel of WANN? I can think of some AM stations within the Atlanta market that may benefit with increased or at least a cleaner signal within the perimeter even though this is a low power digital TV signal.
 
I could see this being a boon for weaker AM signals, or LPFMs or rimshots, but a 100k intown FM? I don't get it. Are there any FCC rules regarding rebroadcasting a signal in this fashion?

I remember, back in the day, cable companies would rebroadcast a local FM station (or NOAA weather radio) on weather channels, or local/government/educational access channels when nothing (or just teletype text) was on the air, but I haven't seen it recently since Channel 11's radar channel rebroadcasting NOAA went off cable.

I remember the Philco-owned cable TV system on Jekyll Island about 35 years ago had a weather channel that showed nothing but a B&W TV camera panning back-and-forth across a panel of dials showing local temperature, humidity, windspeed and direction, etc., while NOAA weather radio came over the audio.
 
jabba17 said:
I could see this being a boon for weaker AM signals, or LPFMs or rimshots, but a 100k intown FM? I don't get it. Are there any FCC rules regarding rebroadcasting a signal in this fashion?
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It's legal.

But as you suggest, it's also stupid! WKLS's own signal has far better coverage than any low-power TV -- and most of the audience already has portable and car radios that can hear it...
 
Re: WKLS (Project 9-6-1) audio carried on WANN low power digital TV subchannel 3

I can see the record labels flipping out over this one pretty quickly, demanding additional royalties...
 
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