Goodbye 87.7 - A loss due to DTV

An very late update for about the losses for switching from analog television to digital on a normal radio excluding HD Radio.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• 87.7
• ABC
• analog
• digital
• DTV

[scaryred24]

This is in ages I have receive comments such as these for a very long time. Keep those comments rolling.

[EncoreEnterprisesLLC]

Why is this important? I never find a use for 8.77 Channel 6 audio.

[scaryred24]

Me either. I usually need at least 2 senses for viewing channel 6 alone. There are many people who lost their TV signals. There are people that don't even own a Comcast, Cox, Directv, etc. or even satellite radio service.

[idkx08]

I used to listen to 87.7 WPVI every night before i went to bed for the 11pm news. I will miss those days.

[saturnday]

in the areas that had a channel 6, it was a good way to listen to local news without having to sit in front of a television set. Some people listened to their soap operas while at work, some listened to sporting events instead of a crappy AM radio signal. There were many good uses for the channel 6 audio over the radio.

I have an old portable radio that picked up the audio for TV channels 2-13. It too will soon be obsolete when ALL stations go digital.

[saturnday]

Here in Georgia, there were two channel 6 stations. One was an ABC station in Augusta and the other a CBS station from Tallahassee Florida that serves South Georgia. Both stations shut off their analog and with that lost the FM radio audio.

The station in Augusta made an arraingement to have their TV newscasts available live over an FM station and that station will also break into their music programing for emergencies aired over the TV station.

[caa1000]

I always wondered and I'm not a geek on how, all Channel 6 broadcast on 87.7 in the NTSC or analog format. You could go to Canada or Mexico and still listen to channel 6 on 87.7, until all the world abandons the NTSC analog for DTV ATSC broadcast eventually.

[eyeh8nbc]

In Sacramento PBS is on channel 6, which has been ruining its picture with an on-screen logo for the past few years, which some commercial stations don't even do. Hope this frees up space for another non-commercial FM station- in case you didn't know, TV came along first, then they shoved all FM stations between channels 6 and 7. If you live near an FM station it sometimes causes interference on channel 5 through 7, and you can hear the radio on them when the TV signals are weak or gone.

[TeffDogg]

Here in Omaha we have NBC on TV channel 6. We used to listen to it on the radio at 87.7 all the time, especially in the car. Not any more I guess!