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[A Joseph Ross]

I thought Hartford had to move from 6 to 8 in order to allow Schenectady 
to move from 4 to 6.  I don't know whether there were any problems with 
having Boston and Schenectady both be on channel 4, but I'm guessing 
there must have easily been a conflict with Schenectady and NYC both 
being on 4.

My family had just moved to Albany when WRGB moved to channel 6. Just a 
couple of years later, the FCC had a proposal to make the Albany area an 
all-UHF market by shifting WRGB to channel 47.  That never happened, and 
a year or so after we moved back to the Boston area, I heard that the 
opposite had happened, and the UHF stations on 41 and 35 had moved to 10 
and 13, where they are now.


On 10/23/2020 7:36 AM, Ed Hennessy wrote:
> Wasn't there also a weird intermodulation product on channel 11 with 
> some early TVs that existed in Providence that the switch to 10 solved 
> for WJAR?  I seem to also recall that it was mostly in Motorola TVs, 
> so perhaps it was just bad circuitry and not specific to RF in 
> Providence?
>
> And I always wondered why 6 moved to 8 in New Haven, but I failed to 
> think about co-channel distancing to *Philly* (I knew New Bedford 
> wasn't on air then.)  Related question--I seem to recall my 
> grandparents (who lived in the southeast shadow of East Rock in New 
> Haven, which blocked signal from the WNHC antenna in Hamden) watching 
> channel 8 on channel 6 (in the early 1970s) (this was on an antenna, 
> not cable).  Did WNHC ever have a translator on channel 6 at any time 
> after the change to 8?  Perhaps on East Rock with channel 65?  Given 
> the difference in frequency between 6 and 8, it likely wouldn't have 
> been a mixing product or other fluke they took advantage of.  Or else 
> I am misremembering.
>
> Ed Hennessy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Vahey <kvahey@gmail.com>
>
> A Joseph Ross
> I remember when these changes took place.  They also involved WRGB in
> Schenectady moving from channel 4 to channel 6 and WJAR-TV in Providence
> moving from channel 11 to 10.  I understand the channel 4 to 6 and 6 to
> 8 moves, but why the move from 11 to 10?
>
>
> Politics was a driver as the Chicago Tribune wanted a license in NYC
>
> WPIX and WJAR could not coexist on 11
>

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