Joe Coughlin wrote: > Next week, KJWP, a MeTv affiliate is being added to cable systems in the > Philadelphia area, adding yet another anomalous TV station call letter > combination in Philadelphia (KYW Channel 3, the current CBS and former NBC > affiliate is a double anomaly, three letters beginning with a K east of > the Mississippi)
That would look very interesting on the "Channels Listed in the Philadelphia Edition" page of TV Guide -- aw, phooey. > The reason is interesting. KJWP was a station out west in Wyoming and they > used an FCC loophole to move. The loophole is that they could move to any > state that did not have its own television station, so they moved the > station to Delaware. Well, not quite. It has a Delaware affiliation, but > the antenna exists in the Philly antenna farm in the Roxborough section of > the city. Loophole applying to commercial VHF stations, that is -- Delaware already has WHYY (noncommercial VHF), WDPB (noncommercial UHF) and WPPX (commercial UHF). -- Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]> <http://www.ellwanger.tv> -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
