Channel "5" during Boston's great OTA TV outage of 2012

[Larry Weil]

Per my previous post, 56 is NOT on the 7 tower.

Larry Weil
Lake Wobegone, NH

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On Apr 10, 2012, at 4:11 PM, "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com> wrote:

> On 4/10/2012 7:33 AM, Dan.Strassberg wrote:
> 
>> I do not have cable or satellite TV; 100% of my TV reception, on two
>> receivers here in Arlington Heights near the Lexington line ~0.5 miles
>> north of Route 2, is from over-the-air signals. I've heard several
>> people (some on this list, I think) insist that the OTA signal from
>> Channel "5" (WCVB) has gone dark in the multi-station outage that is
>> currently affecting several of the OTA signals that emnanate from what
>> has historically been called the Channel 4 tower in Needham. (Since
>> the other three FM/TV sites in the Newton-Needham area are in Newton,
>> it would seem OK to refer to the affected tower as the Needham tower;
>> FM 128, the Channel "7"/"56" self-supporter, and the Candelabra are
>> all in Newton.) I can't say that a Channel "5" OTA signal has NEVER
>> gone dark in this outage, but every time I have checked it out since I
>> started monitoring which of the Needham stations were dark and which
>> weren't (early Monday AM, IIRC), "5" has always been there and the
>> reception has been at least as good as normal.
>> 
>> So does this mean that "5" (and maybe also "2") have an auxiliary site
>> either on FM 128 or the Candelabra? As far as I can tell, the only
>> OTA signals that are affected are "4," "38," and "44" (including all
>> of ""44's" sub-channels). Can somebody explain why some of the Needham
>> signals appear unaffected?
> 
> If 38 is now on the channel 4 tower and 56 is on the channel 7 tower, who's on the candelabra now?
> 
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