CircleSeven 1944 Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 Follow-up regarding the Milwaukee channel shuffle on Monday. The Journal-Sentinel has released the new channel lineup post-switch. It basically confirms that WCGV as a separate license station will cease to be on Monday. There going to have five programming streams on WBME's frequency (The M, Bounce, MeTV, Decades & H&I). So which stream will be on 58.3? I would move MeTV to 58.3 and have WMLW simulcast on 58.2, And it confirms that WMLW will have a full-market simulcast on WDJT. But it will be on 58.3. Still wished it was 58.2, though. It would've made the most sense. I also liked the original proposal for H&I & Decades grouped on the subs of 41, instead of 49. After all, all three (along with MeTV) run similar programming. WVTV 18.1 CW 24.1 MyNet 24.2 Comet WBME/WMLW 41.1 MeTV 49.1 WMLW 49.2 Bounce 49.3 H&I 49.4 Decades WDJT 58.1 CBS 58.2 MeTV (simulcast) 58.3 WMLW (simulcast) 58.4 Telemundo (simulcast) WYTU 63.1 Telemundo 63.2 This TV WMVS/WMVT 10.1 WMVS 10.2 Create 10.3 PBS Kids 36.1 WMVT 36.2 PBS World 36.3 Weather Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Here are some interesting CSAs. Two TBN owned stations are going to be channel sharing with two Class-A low power stations, with the Class As being the "sharer" or the host station. Both Class As are owned by LocusPoint Networks (Could TBN end up buying these two from them? LocusPoint has been on a selling spree lately). WWTO in LaSalle, IL, which took a whopping $304.25M in the auction (the largest amount for a single station), will channel share with Plano, IL's WLPD-CD. WLPD is in the process of moving from RF 35 to RF 32. And WTBY in Poughkeepsie, NY, will be channel sharing with Edison, NJ's WDVB-CD. That station is moving from RF 23 to RF 22. Keep in mind, both WWTO & WTBY's main signals were so far, it was hard to reach if you lived closer to Chicago or New York City respectively. Now they've made CSAs with Class-As that have in-city coverage, but will no longer have coverage from their respective communities of licenses (LaSalle and Poughkeepsie). Follow-up. They are. TBN is buying the hosting stations (WDVB & WLPD) outright for $13M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Follow-Up. WTTW is planning on buying spectrum-less WYCC for $100K. The FCC just greenlighted this transaction. I'm wondering what programming Channel 11 will put on the spectrum-less WYCC. And will they keep virtual channel 20.1 or become 11.5? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 1847 Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 As I just mentioned on the chatbox, WCMZ-TV 28 (PBS) Flint is leaving the airwaves on Monday, April 23rd at Midnight. WCMU-TV 14 is already reachable there as well as WDCQ-TV 19. The page also mentions Detroit and Ann Arbor, in which WTVS 56 is reachable. http://wcmu.org/Flint/index.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 The FCC just greenlighted this transaction. I'm wondering what programming Channel 11 will put on the spectrum-less WYCC. And will they keep virtual channel 20.1 or become 11.5? And TV-20 is back on the air!!! WTTW has relighted WYCC on 20.1 as of tonight, ahead of its official Monday relaunch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEOMatrix 1295 Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Don't know if this was brought up but: As of April 23rd, WKBN shut off its RF 41 signal and moved to WYTV's RF 36 signal. Here is the lineup as of the 23rd: RF 19 (WYFX-LD) 19.1 - WYFX / FOX in HD 19.2 - MyYTV / MyNet in HD 19.3 - ION in SD 19.4 - Bounce in SD 19.5 - LAFF in SD 19.6 - Get TV in SD RF 36 (WKBN/WYTV) 27.1 - WKBN / CBS in HD 27.2 - WYFX / FOX in HD 33.1 - WYTV / ABC in HD 33.2 - MyYTV / MyNet in SD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted August 1, 2019 Share Posted August 1, 2019 Okay. I'm bumping this thread because I'm surprised no one has talked about this. We're coming towards the crucial phases of this spectrum auction repack, where multiple TV stations will be switching to their post-auction channels. If you've been hearing "rescan your TV" lately, this is the reason. In this 4th phase of the repack, close to 80 TV stations (mostly in the Northeast region) will be moving to their new allotments (some of them simultaneously) between today and Friday (8/1 & 8/2). Some stations including WFSB, WNBC, WCAU, WRC, WVIT, WTXF & WNYW will be switching as early as this afternoon. While others like WKYC, WNEU, & WCVB, will be switching tomorrow. Phase 5 will mostly affect the stations in the Southeast region next month, while Phase 6 will affect a good chunk of the Midwest in later this fall. Many other stations will switchover in subsequent phases until the 10th and final phase in July 2020. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 On 10/11/2019 at 9:10 PM, mrschimpf said: It's the perfect time anyways, with off air periods as Milwaukee is the lucky market for spectrum reallocation next week. Glad you mentioned it. A good chunk of the stations in the Midwest (including Chicago, Milwaukee & South Bend) will be moving RF channels this Friday (10/18). But over the weekend, WTTW announced that they're switching RF channels early on Tuesday (10/15). Unless you're an avid-viewer of channel 11, I'm thinking most folks will wait till Friday to rescan. What's the use to doing two rescans in a week? All the other stations have heavily-promoted the "October 18" date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 Bumping this up again. We're about two weeks before the July 3rd deadline of the final phase of the repack (Phase 10). More than 100 TV stations will be switching their RF channels between now and 7/3. Surprisingly, WFOX in Jacksonville, FL has been granted permission to extend its deadline to transition from RF 32 to RF 14 by September 8th. There "could" be a few more stations asking for extensions like WFOX, but they believe most of the stations will meet the deadline in two weeks. Quote Of the 987 TV stations that were assigned to new channels, only 92 stations have yet to transition, and the Commission does not anticipate the need for more than a few other short extensions where, like WFOX, unforeseeable circumstances may also arise through no fault of a television station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3458 Posted June 24, 2020 Author Share Posted June 24, 2020 I originally posted here, but now I've posted in the results of how 3.0 signals are moving their existing 1.0 content to existing channels in Pittsburgh and Nashville Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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