What stations still might change Feb 17 anyways.

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:46:02 -0500, "Bill O'Neill" <billohno@gmail.com> said:

> Questions  - How long will it take before stations will decide to 
> abandon their former channel numbers or will they not need to?

It's not up to them.  (Except in the limited sense of how they market
themselves.)

> Who decides what a new station may use as an alias dial position (or 
> whatever it's called)?

If the RF channel the new station is licensed on is the PSIP channel
of an existing station (i.e., the existing station had its former
analog service on the new station's channel), then the new station
must use the RF channel of the existing station as its PSIP channel.
Otherwise, the new station must use its RF channel as its PSIP
channel.  It's possible that this won't work in a few cases, and there
is some sort of process for coordinating the selection of an alternate
virtual channel number.

-GAWollman