MyTV joins MyNetwork

[Dan Strassberg]

Channels 4 and 5 are not adjacant in frequency. There is a band of 4 MHz
(2/3 the "width" of a US TV channel) between them. I forget the use of that
4-MHz band, but I'm sure that a BUNCH of people will jump in to explain.
Anyhow, all over North America are cities to which both Channels 4 and 5 are
assigned (New York and Los Angeles are just two of them). You wont find any
other channel pairs except for 6 and 7 and 13 and 14 of which that is true.
There are much bigger gaps between 6 and 7 (88 MHz) and 13 and 14 (294 MHz,
I believe). As you probably know, those large gaps are anything but vacant.
Among other uses, FM occupies the 20 MHz immediately above Channel 6.

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Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
eFax 707-215-6367

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>
To: "Dan Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>; "A. Joseph Ross"
<joe@attorneyross.com>; "Scott Fybush" <scott@fybush.com>; "Donna Halper"
<dlh@donnahalper.com>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: MyTV joins MyNetwork


> <<(Proximity to Channel 10 in Providence precluded a
> site closer to Boston.)>>
>
> Dan, could you explain this, please?  I'm certain it has something to do
> with frequency technicalities, but I'm a layman.  If Channel 9 couldn't
move
> to the Boston area because of geographical proximity to Channel 10, then
how
> could Channel 5 be established in Boston, given its proximity to Channel
4?
>
> -Doug
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
> To: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com>; "Doug Drown"
> <revdoug1@verizon.net>; "Scott Fybush" <scott@fybush.com>; "Donna Halper"
> <dlh@donnahalper.com>
> Cc: <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 3:10 PM
> Subject: Re: MyTV joins MyNetwork
>
>
> > Early in the life of Channel 9, George B Storer (best known as an (AM)
> radio
> > mogul) wanted to buy WMUR-TV and move its transmitting tower to
Georgetown
> > MA on the North Shore, making the station into a Boston-maket station.
> > Untill the Channel 5 competition was straigtened out, Channel 9 would
have
> > been Boston's third network affiliate and presumably would have retained
> the
> > ABC affiliation because ABC was then decidedly the least desirable
network
> > and the northerly transmitter site would have made Channel 9 the
market's
> > poorest VHF facility. (Proximity to Channel 10 in Providence precluded a
> > site closer to Boston.) I'm not sure which of many possible reasons was
> > responsible for the demise of the Channel 9 move, but I'm sure that
Scott
> > and/or Donna can enlighten us.
> >
> > --
> > Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
> > eFax 707-215-6367
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com>
> > To: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>
> > Cc: <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 12:43 PM
> > Subject: Re: MyTV joins MyNetwork
> >
> >
> > > On 22 Jul 2006 at 14:58, Doug Drown wrote:
> > >
> > > > Good question --- and one which raises a couple more.  I understand
> > > > that WMUR-TV was originally a CBS affiliate, but switched to ABC
back
> > > > around 1960 or thereabouts.  The station has changed hands twice in
> > > > the past thirty years; with each change in ownership, have the other
> > > > networks tried to wrest it away from that ABC affiliation?  And . .
.
> > > > Why ABC?  It gives the network a very advantageous toehold in the
> > > > state.  (I guess if I were an exec with Disney/ABC, I'd have my
answer
> > > > right there.)
> > >
> > > When we moved to Bedford, MA in 1957, WMUR-TV was even then an ABC
> > > affiliate.  I don't think it's ever been anything else.  At that
> > > time, before channel 5 was on the air in Boston, and long before
> > > channel 6 in New Bedford, it was the only ABC-affiliated station
> > > around, and its signal reached at least the northern suburbs of
> > > Boston (in the early 70s, I used to be able to get it rather well in
> > > Brookline, at the apartment where I lived at that time).
> > >
> > > At the time, ABC also had a lighter schedule than the other two
> > > networks  -- for awhile they had hardly any daytime programming at
> > > all -- which left room for local and syndicated programming.  Even
> > > after Channel 5 came on, Channel 9 often had programming that wasn't
> > > available anywhere else in the Boston area.
> > >
> > > --
> > > A. Joseph Ross, J.D.                           617.367.0468
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> > >
> > >
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