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[Scott Fybush]

4 was one of several overcrowded channels initially. It wasn't just
Boston/Schenectady/NYC. It was also NYC/Lancaster/Washington. In addition
to WRGB going from 4 to 6, WGAL in Lancaster went from 4 to 8, with a
substantial power increase.

(Which in turn took WGAL from a small community station to a regional
powerhouse reaching most of central Pennsylvania.)

On Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 7:47 PM 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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