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WPTZ-DT lost coverage

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jiminCT

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Just thinking how WPTZ-DT will make up lost coverage once they move to Mount Mansfield for their digital broadcasts. I was told by an engineer that much of Franklin and St. Lawrence counties will lose reception.

Solution ideas:

1) Set up a translator in Potsdam or some higher elevation in central St. Lawrence county.

2) Use a digital sub-carrier from WNPI in Colton (essentially renting space from WPBS in Watertown).

Since there is no NBC in the Watertown market (WSTM in Syracuse is imported to the TW system), there shouldnt be any legal hassles since NBC in coming into a unserved market.

Any thoughts??
 
jiminCT said:
Since there is no NBC in the Watertown market (WSTM in Syracuse is imported to the TW system), there shouldnt be any legal hassles since NBC in coming into a unserved market.
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Actually, WPTZ is seen on Time Warner systems in the Massena area, in eastern St. Lawrence County (the western half gets WSTM).

As for having a repeater, what is WCWF channel 40 doing these days? Maybe WPTZ can buy them.
 
Was thinking for off-air reception. If WPTZ could lease a sub-carrier off WNPI/WPBS, the signal would reach Ottawa. Strategially...they would get off air access to over 5 million people between Montreal, Ottawa, and the northern USA.

As you stated..Massena, Malone, and Potsdam get WPTZ via cable. Potsdam used to pick up the signal off-air from their head end there (not sure if they still do).

Maybe WSTM would look into subleasing (sub-carrier) one from WPBS to serve Jefferson and western St. Lawrence.
 
Set up a translator in Potsdam or some higher elevation in central St. Lawrence county.
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The FCC will not authorize a new repeater so close to the DT cutover in 2009. Besides, Hearst-Argyle has better ways to spend its money.

Use a digital sub-carrier from WNPI in Colton (essentially renting space from WPBS in Watertown).
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Out of the question. WNPI-18 holds a noncommercial license and the FCC will not authorize a noncommercial DT station to run a commercial subchannel.
 
"The FCC will not authorize a new repeater so close to the DT cutover in 2009. Besides, Hearst-Argyle has better ways to spend its money."

Like not spending money a all... ;D

WNPI has a non-commercial license for its PRIMARY signal. Find me the legal scribe that say that the subcarriers fall under non-commercial. Here's what I plucked on the radio side...

"FCC rules offer some protection to radio reading services. Commercial use of a public radio station's subcarrier cannot be "detrimental to an existing or potential radio reading service," warns regulation 73.593."
 
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