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WSYR Channel 9 still running analog?

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theradiokid

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I’m wondering if anyone else is noticing what I am. I am an experimentor, and have an analog television that I have not hooked up to any cable or digital conversion methods. Ever since analog went dark, I have been getting a very, very weak something on analog CH. 9. At first, I thought it was Canada, but after doing some fiddling with my antenna, I was able to pull it in long enough to hear what I thought was a news channel 9 ID. However, I was never sure… until today. For some reason, the signal is strong enough today where it is actually audable, and, as someone told me, visible. I checked my cable television, and the sound on CH. 9 cable matches perfectly with the sound of this CH. 9 analog (right down to Carry Laserous and the Syracuse mayoral race.) Again: This is ANALOG channel 9, and today, at least, here in Oswego, it’s coming in relatively clearly. Is channel 9 WSYR still running in analog at an unauthorized power? Could this be a pirate? Has anyone else seen this? Or, am I just nostalgically losing my mind, and hearing things… Well, no, that couldn’t be it, because I had someone who could see check for me, and, besides a fuzzy picture, everything on this analog matches the cable feed.

Any thoughts?

--The Radio Kid
(Oswego, NY.)
My email: [email protected].
 
Cable leakage. It's pretty common, actually - few cable plants are as well-insulated as they should be.
 
What would have stopped some of these channels from modifying their licences to -LP since those channels were not obligated to the "eventual" sign-off date?

For that matter, what is stopping any channel?

ie: WNBC-LP channel 4.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
The fact that they don't have LP licenses prevents them from using LP licenses.

- Trip
 
tripinva said:
The fact that they don't have LP licenses prevents them from using LP licenses.

- Trip
Click to expand...

Right. So the question is, since the -TV license has been returned, why not reapply for a -LP licence on the same channel?

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
Because the FCC has stopped granting analog LP licenses.

- Trip
 
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