[opendtv] DTV Channel Assignments
- From: Bill Hogan <billhogan1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Mark Schubin <tvmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, OpenDTV <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 00:45:26 -0700
In looking at the following news story it brings up some questions. As
BobMiller and Mark Schubin
have related in the testing in Mark's apartment in NY they mention that they
taped the antenna to
the window or placed it near the TV set. With the STUPID notion that the
FCCset in law
and the INDUSTRY allowed to happen stations could choose to stay on their
ANALOG
VHF frequency assignment instead of moving EVERYONE to UHF, as was done in
Europe. We can
never have a successful DTV off-air system with a mixture of VHF and UHF in
the same city.
What is the worst problem with 8-VSB? Yes it is multi path. And at what
frequency is multi path the
worst? Yes it is with the lowest frequency VHF channels. And there are
additional technical problems
with the LOW VHF channels that has be discussed before. BUT NO I suppose
that some stations
selected their low frequency VHF channels. CBS with many stations on Channel
2 has announced
they would wait for the second round of channel selections and pick another
channel. Tribune
also said they would select a frequency in the UHF band and not stay on
theirlow channel VHF
present assignment.
Hey Mark you want to put a LOW VHF frequency directional antenna in your
living room?
Yes folks might be happy to install a small UHF TV band antenna on their
roof. Cheap and small.
How many want to put up a VHF antenna?
Did any broadcaster reading this now on LOW band VHF select this channel for
their permanent assignment?
MARK: Did all the NY low band stations select a UHF channel so you do not
need a low band
VHF antenna in your apartment?
But WAIT Bert will try to tell us this is NO problem.
Regards, Bill Hogan
DTV channel election advances[1]
Jun 17, 2005 8:00 AM, RF Update e-newsletter
The FCC last week advanced the process used to assign television
broadcastersto their permanent in-core DTV channel and create a Final DTV
Table of Allotments.
On June 8, the Media Bureau released an order approving 25 Negotiated
ChannelArrangements (NCAs) and rejected 12 others. An NCA lets stations
within a market enter into an agreement to elect channels other than their
own, provided that every station potentially affected by the move is in
agreement.
Working to meet a timeline established last summer by commission order, more
than 1700 television broadcasters filed their channel preference for final
DTV operations by February. Of those stations, 1628 chose to use their
existing NTSC or digital channel. Fifty chose to forego the first round in
the channel election process. Sixty-two stations participated in 37 NCAs
filed with the FCC. Stations that are approved will receive tentative
channeldesignations for the channels contained in the agreements; the
stations participating in the rejected NCAs reverted to their alternate
channel elections and were considered during general Round One conflict
analysis.
Last week, the commission also sent about 155 letters to stations that
elected their NTSC channel for digital operation but an FCC engineering
analysis indicated that it would result in impermissible interference. The
stations have 60 days to inform the FCC how they will resolve the
interference conflict.
The commission will complete Round One later this summer and commence Round
Two elections in the fall.
For more information, visit www.fcc.gov[2].
--- Links ---
1
http://broadcastengineering.com/newsletters/rfupdate/20050617/FCC-channel-election-20050617
2 http://www.fcc.gov
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