Re: How will the US local area stations commerate the end of System-M?

In alt.tv.tech.hdtv Doug Smith W9WI <w9wi@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
| On Fri, 02 May 2008 21:44:57 -0700, Sal M. Onella wrote:
|> KCAL and KCBS are a duopoly, that is owned by the same company.  I had
heard
|> that on Day Zero KCBS-DT might move to Ch 9 and KCAL-DT might stay on
Ch 43.
|> KCBS-DT must vacate Ch 60 on Day Zero and going digital on Ch 2 would
seem
|> to be a bad move, given the known low-band noise problems.  We shal
see.
| 
| KCAL-DT has filed to return to channel 9 on Transition Day.  Same tower
as
| their current analog facility but it looks like they're going to use a
| different antenna.  (a directional antenna 7m lower than their existing
| analog one)  The permit hasn't been issued yet but 9 is their assigned
| channel in the FCC's post-transition channel table.
| 
| KCBS-DT has received a permit to take over KCAL-DT's channel 43 facility
| on Transition Day.  The power will increase about 10% but the same
antenna
| will be used.
| 
| (one might guess that will confuse those viewers who don't realize they
| need to rescan: suddenly, when they punch up channel 9 on their remotes
| they're going to get channel 2!)

A proper TV would detect the PSIP data mismatch and alert the viewer and
suggest the rescan.  It may partially update its own channel table at that
point.

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