NBC Boston info

[Kevin Vahey]

I think Comcast is only concerned about putting NBC Boston in the 10 slot
on the HD tier. The SD channels are just a  nuisance to them now.

What I can't figure out is how WBTS is now wagging the dog. Should't they
simply mirror what WNEU is doing and not the other way around?

The who thing is borderline absorb as WBTS gives no coverage to the south
shore and MetroWest is marginal at best.

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 9:47 PM, Scott Fybush <scott@fybush.com> wrote:

> On 11/1/2016 9:36 PM, Garrett Wollman wrote:
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>> <<On Tue, 1 Nov 2016 21:30:42 -0400, Scott Fybush <scott@fybush.com>
>> said:
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>> There are rules for that, and my read of those rules is that:
>>>
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>> (a) Because WTMU/WBTS was on analog 32, it should be virtual 32
>>>
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>> Except that they haven't been on analog 32 in a long time: they were
>> on analog 46, under STA, before flash-cutting to digital when NBC
>> offered to pay for it.  My read of the filings is that they never
>> intended to build this digital facility, and were just waiting for the
>> auction proceeds.
>>
>
> I don't see a loophole in the rules for "they haven't been on analog xx
> for a long time" or for "they used this channel under STA"; the procedure
> under the A/51 standard, as incorporated into FCC rules, simply looks at
> "what was the analog channel assignment pre-transition?"
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> And the fact remains that "32" is an available major channel number in
> both the Boston DMA and all adjoining DMAs, so it really was the logical
> place for WTMU/WBTS to go, at least until Comcast's lawyers got involved.
>
> (I do not understand AT ALL why Comcast didn't then shuffle its lineups so
> that NBC Boston would be 8 both OTA and on cable. That puzzles me. The
> local access channels could easily have shifted from 8 to 10 without any
> regulatory problems, at least AIUI.)
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