The transistion to the 'core' spectrum started happening around 2001, mostly with the low power translators.
DTV transistion sounds better in print than Bandwidth snatch. See channels 70-83. I understand that the auctions for the 108 MHz will yield between 1 and 4 billion dollars. At least they didn't get what was left of 220 or 902-928. On 1/7/08, MCH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But, how is that related to the transition to digital? The same could > have happened with simple channel reassignment. > > Joe M. > > Hap Griffin wrote: > > > > Actually, there will be a huge amount of spectrum freed up. Currently, the > > television allocation is from channel 2 through channel 69. After February > > 2009, all analog operation will cease and all of the digital stations will > > be occulying only the channels 2 through 51. Thus, eighteen 6-MHz channels > > will be freed up, or a total of 108 MHz. > > > > Hap Griffin > > WZ4O > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
