<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><a href="http://www.tvnewsday.com">TV Newsday</a> editor Harry Jessell says "Now Everything You Know is Wrong" about DTV on VHF in this followup two weeks after the "Big Switch."</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.tvnewsday.com/articles/2009/06/26/daily.4/?print">http://www.tvnewsday.com/articles/2009/06/26/daily.4/?print</a></div><div>Registration may be needed.</div><div><br></div><div>For some VHF stations its become the big boo-boo, causing them to apply to the FCC for more power, or for a UHF channel.</div><div><br></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">Since the June 12 analog cut off, the FCC has granted extra power to three VHF stations (ABC's WPVI Philadelphia; Schurz's KWCH Hutchison-Wichita, Kan.; and Sunbeam's WSVN Miami) and has received requests from 11 others.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><p>Post-Newsweek, for instance, asked the FCC two days ago if it could kick up the power of WPLG, ch. 10 in Miami, from 22 kW to 60 kW, assuring the FCC that it would not interfere with any other station.</p><p>The FCC also says that it has granted several requests from stations to retreat to their pre-transition UHF channels.</p><p>I heard the tale of one broadcaster with a major market duopoly who intends to ask the FCC if it can switch the stations' channels so that its Big Four affiliate would be on a UHF channel and its netlet affiliate would be on the VHF assignment.</p></span></font></div></div><div>Jessell writes: "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">Now, it seems UHF is the place to be -- and not only for regular broadcast service.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">From what I'm hearing from RF engineers who are obsessed with this issue right now, VHF is going to have big trouble in mobile DTV, which is being hyped as the second coming of TV broadcasting.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; "><p>"There is not an engineer -- a sane engineer -- who would disagree with that," says Sinclair's Mark Aitken, a member of the technical advisory committee of the Open Mobile Video Coalition. "VHF is not king in the mobile world."</p><p>According to Aitken and others, the problem is a function not just of power, but of wavelength. The tiny antennas being squeezed into cell phone and other mobile devices will have a tough time capturing VHF signals with their long wavelengths. The shorter waves of UHF are far more compatible.</p></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">"VHF mobile is going to be a real stretch," says William Meintel, a consulting engineer at Meintel, Sgrignoli & Wallace.</span>"</div><div><br></div><div>How to calculate a company's station ownership cap is affected by coverage, and the number of homes covered affects ad rates.</div><div><br></div><div>Watch the scramble to fix the problems before the debut of the new television season in September, when sweeps resume and stations and networks pray the number of viewers doesn't cause more problems with ad revenue.</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; 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