DTV Update

[Garrett Wollman]

There were a whole flurry of DTV transition updates filed with the FCC
today.  The following stations have now reported that they expect to
do an early transition (stations in parentheses have not refiled since
the FCC released the official rules on the transition extension, which
according to the FCC's order in docket 09-6, means that they must
continue operating in analog until at least March 14):

Connecticut:	(WFSB 3), WUVN 18, WHPX 26*, WEDW 49

Massachusetts:	WWLP 22, WMFP 62

Maine:		WVII-TV 7*, (WGME-TV 13), WPFO 23* (flash cut)

New Hampshire:	WNEU 60 (will do nightlight)

New Jersey:	(WMBC-TV 63)

New York:	WKTV 2, WPTZ 5 (will do nightlight), (WTVH 5), WWNY-TV 7*,
		(WKBW-TV 7), WBNG-TV 12,
		WETM-TV 18*, WXXA-TV 23, (WUTV 29), (WUHF 31),
		WIVT 34 (will operate transitional DTV ch. 4 until June),
		WICZ-TV 40, (WNYS-TV 43), (WNYO-TV 49), WWTI 50, WCFE 57,
		(WSYT 68)

Pennsylvania:	WWCP-TV 8*, WLYH-TV 15, WNEP-TV 16, WYOU 22, (WPMY 22), 
		WATM-TV 23, WBRE-TV 28, WITF-TV 33, WSEE-TV 35,
		(?WVIA-TV 44), (WPGH-TV 53)

Rhode Island:	WJAR 10, WPRI-TV 12, WNAC-TV 64*

Vermont:	WCAX-TV 3* (will do nightlight), WVNY 22, WNNE 31, WFFF-TV 44

This list excludes stations that have already completed their
transition (at which point they are no longer required to file these
reports).

An asterisk indicates that the station has different interim and
post-transition facilities, and has also requested authorization to
operate on the post-transition facility.

It appears that nobody in Boston except WMFP (which doesn't count) is
going to transition early, so Qualcomm will have to wait until at
least March to get MediaFlo running on channel 55.

-GAWollman