WSEE DT adds WICU as a sub channel
Erie-Meadville: Over the weekend, I discovered that WSEE DT 35 (16) has added sister station WICU as a sub channel. WICU can now be found at 35-3 (16-3) or your digital TV or receiver box. While WICU itself has a digital signal at 12-1 (52-1), their coverage area is very limited in part because of a TBN translator in Meadville also on analog channel 52. Puttting WICU on the more powerful WSEE signal will help overcome those problems until the station shuts down it's analog signal & moves it's digital signal from 52 to 12. That move will occur on February 18th, 2009.Readers’ Forum
It would be nice to see more arrangements like this. Up the road in Buffalo, WIVB-DT (CBS) and WNLO-DT (CW), whose sites are on opposite sides of the city, were doing this sort of reciprocal subchannel-simulcasting until about a year ago, too.
Then the network lawyers found out and put an end to it. Seems there are all kinds of clauses in the various affiliation and syndication agreements that never considered the possibility of an arrangement like this, and lawyers being lawyers, the easiest way to cope was to just shut it all down. Feh…
Scott Fybush (URL) - April 28, 2008 at 5:01 pm
I see this happening in Youngstown, Ohio where WKBN DT carries the low powered Fox affiliate there (WYFX / WFXI). A couple of times, they even moved the HD channel from 27-1 to 27-3, which was a temporary channel created for the Super Bowl & Daytona 500 to be carried in HD. I really do not see the harm in adding a sub channel when WICU faces restrictions like they do.
Tom Lavery (URL) - April 29, 2008 at 06:16 am