[billiefan2000]

Originally Posted by joelwnelson

Cox can't prevent new broadcast licenses from being issued. They can refuse to carry a new subchannel, as well as low-power stations, but any full power primary stations that were to sign on would be able to invoke must-carry and Cox would have to add them.

The economy is one thing holding new stations back. That and it's just not that many people watching OTA. There are quite a few, but not necessarily enough to really be viable.

So here in Omaha, there's nothing really prohibiting someone from starting a brand-new station... even a million-watt full power station on a tall tower, maybe even trying to take a major network affiliation from another station... except the economy. And that's no small impediment. Now if there's someone out there with $50 million that wants to see that become $5 million almost overnight :P then anything's possible.

thanks for the info. it hope it's because of the economy and not laziness that KOHA 47/48 isnt being used.

[billiefan2000]

joel:

seen this 9this is from 3-11-2011

page 3 at


http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db0311/DOC-305111A1.pdf (broken link)

DIGITAL TRANSLATOR OR DIGITAL LPTV APPLICATIONS FOR DISPLACEMENT ACCEPTED FOR FILING

K61GA 74377 THREE ANGELS BROADCASTING NETWORK, INC.

NE , OMAHA BDISDTL-20110308AAQ E CHAN-25


N A T U R E O F A P P L I C A T I O N Minor change of callsign K61GA.


(so k61ga might be on 25.1 instead of 19.1 and looks like plans are in the works to move it to a digital channel soon)


http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K61GA also confirms this info on channel 25.1

even though the sda and 3bn channel isnt my thing, i sometimes watch it is written. so, having another broadcast choice in omaha is cool.

[joelwnelson]

Maybe Verizon will demand the channel 61 spectrum sooner than later and get the ball rolling that way!

[billiefan2000]

Originally Posted by joelwnelson

Maybe Verizon will demand the channel 61 spectrum sooner than later and get the ball rolling that way!

lets hope so too

[fremonter]

You should see the antenna for KZLW. Yikes!! VERY close to the ground with the 6 horizontal long yagi rows of elements (3 and 3 - on 2 parallel mounts) at a 45 degree angle to the ground pointed right at a farm house that I would guess is 300 - 500 feet east of the tower. I hope this set-up doesn't have a lot of slop over like 98.5 FM or the people in this house will hear evangelists coming out of the gold fillings in their teeth. Never seen anything like that and never seen 100,000 watt elements that so close to the ground.

[joelwnelson]

300-500 feet still beats "right on top of" a farmhouse, like KIBZ's construction permit for an upgrade to 40,000 watts appears to be. Tall cell tower adjacent to one or maybe two houses. 40.669873, -96.727715 - Google Maps

Haven't been to the KZLW site but the KIBZ tower is probably considerably taller.