WGBH-TV coverage after August 2

[Bob DeMattia]

In Bangor,  WLBZ - 2 stayed on its VHF-Lo channel when it transitioned, as
did VHF-HI WVII (7).  WABI moved from 5 to VHF-HI 13.
WMUR (9) and WENH (11) also stayed on  VHF-HI.

WPRI (12) in Providence moved to 13, and WNAC (64) in Providence moved to
12.

So there were plenty of VHF transmitters running after the switchover, just
not in Boston.

As Scott mention, WHDH originally planned to stay on 7, but there were so
many reception problems on VHF 7 that they asked
and were granted permission to stay on their transitional channel 42
assignment.


-Bob


On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 10:59 PM Scott Fybush <scott@fybush.com> wrote:

> Also, NBC Boston signed on using existing licenses - full power WNEU in NH,
> which Comcast already owned through Telemundo, and two existing LPTV
> stations NBC bought, which became WBTS and WYCN.
>
> On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, 10:34 PM Scott Fybush <scott@fybush.com> wrote:
>
> > Not sure where you got that impression, but it's... less than accurate.
> > Some low-band VHF stations (6 in Philadelphia, 6 in Schenectady) stayed
> on
> > low V. There were four new low Vs created by a very specific FCC action
> in
> > NJ and DE. But otherwise, there was no provision for any new licenses on
> > low V or elsewhere, and the repack is now filling low V with more
> existing
> > stations again. It's not just WGBH... WSBE in RI and WQED in Pittsburgh
> > took auction dollars to go to low V as well, among others.
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, 9:51 PM Ben Levy <LostCluster@lostcluster.me>
> wrote:
> >
> >> VHF 2-6 was removed from TV during the analog shutdown. All of the
> >> classic analog numbers were released then… leaving plenty of room for
> new
> >> players, but none other than NBC Boston showed up, so they could now
> >> compact the bandwidth/
> >>
> >> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
> >>
> >> From: Rob Landry
> >> Sent: Sunday, August 4, 2019 4:29 PM
> >> To: A Joseph Ross
> >> Cc: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org
> >> Subject: Re: WGBH-TV coverage after August 2
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, 3 Aug 2019, A Joseph Ross wrote:
> >>
> >> > I don't understand why the FCC didn't simply delete the VHF band
> >> entirely and
> >> > put all off-air TV on UHF with the conversion to digital TV.
> >>
> >> VHF isn't useful for mobile broadband, but UHF is. So it's UHF spectrum
> >> being removed from broadcast use, not VHF.
> >>
> >>
> >> Rob
> >>
> >>
>