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[Martin Waters]

      In a 1998 article about the 50th anniversary of WNHC- / WTNH-TV, the Hartford Courant quoted the late Mike Collins, a walking encyclopedia of broadcasting history, as saying that the station was moved to 8 in 1953 because of interference to 6 in Philadelphia. There are other sources, too. WNHC was one of a group of stations reassigned after the FCC  ended the TV license freeze in 1952. The freeze had been imposed mainly because of the unanticipated interference problems between some  of the early stations.
    On Friday, October 23, 2020, 07:49:27 PM EDT, A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com> wrote:  
 
 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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