Gray, Sinclair Oppose Sunset of Channel 6 Protections
The FCC shouldn’t sunset protections for Channel 6 TV stations, said Gray Television and Sinclair Broadcast in letters posted Thursday in docket 19-193. Sunsetting the protections is among the agency’s proposals for improving low-power FM (see 1910220063). Instead, “act to…
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alleviate the obstacles facing low VHF stations by lifting the freeze on channel substitutions and adopting a more realistic approach to low VHF propagation,” said Gray. Channel 6 “presents challenges not faced by other UHF or VHF stations,” said Sinclair. “Those challenges include over-the-air audience loss due to the limitations of digital broadcasting on VHF stations, poor building penetration and adjacent use/interference by stations in the FM radio band.”