[opendtv] Re: Digital VHF-UHF Channel choices

[From a PA member of the Early Television Museum Foundation]

"And now a new entrant in the VHF follies.  The low-power station swaps.

A NJ-based radio group has bought two LP stations from Nevada and Wyoming
and has approval to move them to Monmouth County, NJ and Wilmington, DE.
The DE station (former KJWY, Jackson Hole, WY) is a whopping 178 watts on Ch 
2.  It was sold by KPVI in Idaho.  The stick will be in Phila. with
programming to DE.  I did not search the NJ version but assume it is
similar.  Neither will be network affiliated.


From Delawareonline.com;

"To bring the station here, the New Jersey broadcasters would be taking
advantage of a little-used federal rule that encourages each state to have a 
full-strength commercial television station on the VHF dial. As of this
week, Delaware has no such station, although WHYY, the public television
station, is licensed with the FCC in Delaware.".  (But the xmtr is in
Phila.)

NJ also falls in to this gap with no VHF assigned after WOR, Ch 9 drew DTV
Ch. 38,  thus no VHF for NJ.  No other states qualify.

As of last week, WHYY, Ch 12 has abandoned it's news operation in DE.  Cost
cutting they say.
Now [people in Asbury Park] will have a genuine VHF signal to look at. And if I am lucky, the DE signal may get to [Chester Springs]. Gotta be better than the DTV out here in the 
sticks."

For further reading;

http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=KJWY

http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009906180338

http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,147309.html




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