...I have seen many old installations in northern Leelanau County that appear to have a CH-9 monoband yagi antenna on a tower of 30-feet or higher, pointed about 180 to 190-degrees, and I infer at those locations there were CH-9 signals obtained. But those sites were generally on higher terrain loc...

... He's not seemed to post anywhere regarding his next destination. Perhaps back north, to Cadillac, as he spent time at NewsNet after leaving WWTV and before surfacing at WJRT? Cheers! ~~ Statmanmi Well, Mr. Tinker has landed in my market--at WZZM 13 Grand Rapids. Per his facebook post Monday (10...

Hi All, Google is my friend when my curiosity gets piqued, such as regarding the occurrences of FCC actions against pirate radio broadcasting. I had remembered seeing a FCC release about shutting down a rather infamous pirate in the New York City area, sometime in the last year. Turns out the FCC ha...

I was watching 17 over the weekend and Laura announced she was leaving the station and thanked West Michigan for inviting her into their lives. Wow… she’s only been there 8 months. Hmmm, okay if I throw out a speculation regarding her next employer? The upcoming Oct. 25th launch of Fox Weather (web...

Hi All, The fact that WTLJ’s broadcast has been absent from the airwaves since about 8:30 last evening (10/11) piqued my curiosity enough that I tracked down a couple of email addresses and sent a message noting they likely are already aware of being off. I received a prompt response from the VP of ...

Ryan Cummings just announced on FB that he is moving from the 10&11 newcasts to mornings. No word yet who is taking Deanna's place. My guess would be Savannah or Ruta. Well, now Ryan Cummings has announced he's leaving the industry, and moving to Indianapolis to sell life insurance. He posted his "...

...Not sure why they had to reduce power and directionalize; non-comm stations are not subject to the same, stringent rules as commercial stations in terms of translator usage.... You piqued my curiosity MW, so I looked a bit further at past FCC filings. W237CZ is still noted as being Commercial, w...

...If you ask my wife, she’d get rid of Charlie Tinker. Then again, I’ve always thought that they have been way more professional than TV5 for many years. Hello Realist, Your wife had a valid sense about this, as Mr. Charlie Tinker's bio is gone from the WJRT website. Plus recent commenters on his ...

Hi Trophyhead and All, Jason replied quicker than I did, as indeed a couple of weeks ago after COMET had been running on both 3.3 and 15.3 (and the other WXSP follow-alongs), 3.3 switched to give our market TBD. (Wikipedia notes that Sinclair’s backonym for the stylized “TBD.” stands for To Be Disco...

Oh boy MakitaMan and All in the TC area! Eric Wotila's Freelancer Broadcasting filed their FCC license to cover late this afternoon for DTV RF30 for WXII-LD MyNetworkTV/COZI/NewsNet from the tower on Hickory Hill just northeast from the Traverse City West High School. Are you receiving it? How many ...

Circling back to the initial topic in this thread... Well, something got decided by the lawyers and those involved in August, as Blarney Stone/Mr. Coyne dropped this FCC matter via additional filing on 8/26: https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=...

Statmanmi, ... Keep up the good work. Hey MakitaMan! I could hear the sarcasm in your reply to me a couple of weeks ago, when I tipped you off on some TV broadcast frequency changes, both upcoming and those that already happened. Now I have a new station for you and others in the TC area to go fish...

Agreed MWmetalhead. My home location is far enough east along M-57 that the auxiliary FM in use now breaks up too much for listening since the lightning strike they had until I’m a few miles further west. Also noticeable is that the HD decoding is gone (in the one car I have with that technology), a...

Another finding: I looked ahead to 8/31 through 9/2 dates in TitanTV, and it appears that on 9/1: WOTV 41.3 will become Charge! Reintroducing it over-the-air in our market, and eliminating the current redundancy of Grit (already available on WZPX 43.3). My wife and I have gotten accustom to finding ...

Hello format this and Trophyhead, I have no industry insight, but can offer these observations/guesses: * Ours is not the only market with TCT-owned stations having "Coming Soon" sub-channels pop up in the last couple of days. Posters on AVSForum have noticed the same in the Flint/Tri-Cities market ...