[mythtv-users] Semi-OT anyone recording New York OTA, and NBC 4.1 - this is happening in multiple areas.

[Jay Harbeston (ISeePeople)]

In Wilmington, NC , ABC(720p), CBS(1080i), and CW(480i) have all been jammed onto one channel.

CBS channel 3.2 : gets the majority of the bandwidth with 1 hour of broadcast around 3.8 to 4.2 Gb.
ABC channel 3.1 : 1 hour broadcast averages 2.5-2.7 Gb.
CW channel 3.3 : 1 hour broadcast is a little less than 1 Gb.

Different circumstances caused the 2 major networks to be pushed onto one channel here though.

The channels above are all on the actual channel 46 and are scheduled to move down to an actual channel in the 20s in 2019 sometime.

> On May 29, 2018, at 8:27 PM, Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 11:47 PM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Yea...I was posting about this on the NY OTA thread on avsforums and
>> someone pointed out that they're sharing that frequency with
>> Telemundo. Interestingly they seem to be giving more bandwidth to the
>> latter apparently.
> 
> Not entirely sure about the internal politics of that,
> but the WNBC subchannel is the "new guy" on the
> transmitter that telemundo WNJU has used for
> some time now.  The claim was that that in terms
> of RF coverage, WNJUs transmitter was better
> than WNBCs transmitter, so WNBC was the one
> chosen to go off the air.
> 
> For over $200 million, I expect Comcast was
> willing to make some compromises (for $200
> million, I would be willing to consider making
> some compromises too).  And while I believe
> the NYC market was the largest single payout,
> there was a lot of money exchanged to go off
> the air across the country.
> 
> I thought I had mentioned that the results of the
> FCC auction set of 1000/1001/1002 is going to
> impact various OTA stations over the next few
> years.  You need to look at the FCC site to see
> how/when it will impact you.
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