[grc] [Stubblefield] Translator program origination

[Michelle Bradley]

Out here where I live (Salisbury/Ocean City market), there are no 
stations that I can pick up running HD.    Even the Cheap Channel 
stations are not running HD.

HD is only good for one thing -- feeding translators.. nothing more.

Unlike HDTV, there was never a public outcry for it.

=m



On 1/8/2016 6:46 PM, Leigh Robartes wrote:
> Another spectrum grab only for the wealthy chains. Last I heard the 
> cheapest HD (IBAC) transmitter was $75,000, they damage reception on 2 
> adjacent channels and hardly anybody listens to them.
>
> --Leigh
>
> On 1/8/2016 3:38 PM, Michelle Bradley wrote:
>> The only way that can remotely work is if the translator and the full 
>> power NCE is commonly-owned.
>>
>> "Satellator" rules require common ownership and a host station in the 
>> reserved band.
>>
>> There is no known precedent for an HD subchannel being fed via 
>> satellite to a commonly owned translator.
>>
>> Otherwise, the translator will need to receive the host station (or 
>> another translator carrying the desired programming) over the air.
>>
>> =m
>>
>>
>>
>> On 1/8/2016 6:23 PM, Paul Bame wrote:
>>>
>>> Ah got it...
>>>
>>>
>>> So if I want to "originate" programming on a translator, I can do so by
>>> finding or developing the cheapest HD channel I can, no matter the 
>>> location,
>>> maybe on a struggling rural NCE.
>>>
>>> Then I feed it via satellite or internet to my well-located translator
>>> and call it "low-power FM" :-)
>>>
>>> Great scam.  Seems like it would depend on NCE translator rules
>>> (but I'm no expert).
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