WCSH-TV on the radio

[Scott Fybush]

Matthew Reed wrote:
> Scott Fybush wrote:
>> It's largely a feel-good bill at this point, since stations can still 
>> sign off on 2/17 if they want to, and it looks like enough of them 
>> will do so to make universal analog TV a thing of the past de facto, 
>> if not de jure, long before June.
> 
> What I don't understand is how this will affect stations that need to 
> swap channel assignments. For example, right now WCAX is transmitting on 
> their temporary digital channel of 53. They can't move to their 
> permanent digital channel of 22 until WVNY turns off their analog signal 
> on that channel. But WVNY is unlikely to do that until they can 
> broadcast at full power on their digital channel of 13. As I understand 
> it, they can't do that until WNYT turns off their analog signal on that 
> channel.
> 
> So isn't any decision by WCAX to turn off their analog transmitter 
> dependent upon decisions made by the two other stations?
> 

Indeed it is - which means there will have to be a lot of coordination 
and negotiation among stations.

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