WHDH blows off Leno - Why not both News and Leno using sub-channels

[Jim Hall]

Can a station broadcast two HD channels simultaneously? WHDH News is in HD,
and undoubtedly a network prime show will be in HD too.


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Maureen Carney
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:05 PM
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Subject: WHDH blows off Leno - Why not both News and Leno using sub-channels

The problem with using subchannels is that not everyone has access to them.
WHDH is lucky in that 7.2 is on Comcast channel 297 and was not dropped when
NBC Weather Plus ended back in December. They could use 7.2 for news at 10,
but 1) This TV is usually in the middle of a movie at that time and 2) it
defeats the purpose of getting the local spots in front of the most people.