when analog TV ends

Mike Ward mward@iname.com
Fri Sep 26 00:51:57 EDT 2008


Scott Fybush wrote:

> According to the FCC database, WCVB-DT *is* WCVB-TV.
> 
> The FCC has never considered DTV licenses as separate licenses from 
> their analog parents - so the license held under facility ID 65684, 
> holding the callsign WCVB-TV, has both analog authorization on channel 5 
> and digital authorization on channel 20.

Aren't the handful of companion low-power digital (LD) facilities 
separate, at least as far as facility IDs go?

Not the flash-cuts, of course, but the separate LDs...


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