When the analog is shut off, WPRI will lose a bit of it's history as the station becomes Channel 13. I'm sure that many other stations across the country will also be effected by the switch to Digital. But WPRI is the one station I just read a story about. Looks like new logos coming soon.
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WPRI Channel 12 will soon be WPRI Channel 13
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Skynet74 said:
Chances are the only people who will notice are about a dozen broadcast engineers.
The DTV datastream includes a field indicating the station's "major channel". This is the channel number your digital TV will tell you the station is broadcasting on. It is not necessarily the same channel the signal is actually transmitted on. In WPRI's case the station will transmit "12" in the "major channel" field - and you will punch in "12(enter)" on your remote if you want to watch WPRI. As far as you, the viewer, is concerned, WPRI is still on channel 12.
And really this isn't all that different from what's already happening with analog TV. WPRI doesn't actually broadcast on analog channel 12 -- it broadcasts a picture on 205.25MHz and sound on 209.75MHz. When you punch in "12" on your analog TV, the TV goes to a lookup table and says "channel 12, OK, that's 205.25MHz, I'll tune there." Really the only difference with digital is that the TV station can insert itself into that process and tell the TV to map channel 12 to 210.31MHz instead.
Oh, by the way... All five other Providence stations are moving RF channels as well:
WNAC 64: to channel 12
WSBE 36: to channel 21
WJAR 10: to channel 51
WLWC 28: to channel 22
WLNE 6: to channel 49
(so yes, you punch in 12 on your TV and it tunes to 13; you punch in 64 on your TV and it tunes to 12!)
Of course the majority of viewers, who have cable or satellite, will not be affected at all - the cable and satellite systems will leave WPRI right where they are, on channel 12.
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