Same here in Portland, Oregon; the TV stations on hi VHF will stay there with digital. Yet some areas will have low VHF digital TV; central nebraska being one of them.
------ Original Message ------ Received: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 10:01:41 PM PST From: Nate Duehr <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] How about a Freq list for the new DTV channels > > On Mar 7, 2009, at 5:39 PM, Hap Griffin wrote: > > > Not quite right. The majority of stations are staying on their > > assigned digital channels. It is EXTREMELY expensive to change > > channels, so unless there is a compelling reason to move back to a > > station's analog channel, most are staying put. Out of eleven > > stations in the network I'm CE for, we moved one back to its VHF > > analog channel on 2/17. > > There's a mix here. The channels that were Low VHF are abandoning > their original frequencies. The high VHF channels are on low(er) > power UHF temporarily until their final "cut-over" dates, and have > some monster Harris transmitters just sitting idle, waiting to be > fired up on High VHF. I got an opportunity to see our "big three" > network's shared site, and the place looks like you could almost eat > off the floor. Gotta love a site rebuild and tower-sharing... the > guys up there are rightly proud of their work. > > The only "fair" thing to say, is that there's NO rule of thumb in > this. You MUST go look at the stations in your area that you're > interested in, if you want to know what's really happening and going > to happen... > > Nate WY0X >
