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Showing posts with label channel swaps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label channel swaps. Show all posts

WTSN and WYYW switch channels

What was once one is now the other, and vice-versa

The Evansville Low Power Partnership's two Me-TV affiliated stations have switched call signs - again.

WTSN-CD, which was on Channel 36, is now on Channel 20, and WYYW-CD, which was on channel 20, will return to the air on Channel 15 (as I had previously reported would be the case with WTSN).

The switch, which was made official by the FCC on Wednesday, isn't the first for the two stations: They also played switcheroo on Channels 36 and 41 back in 2009 before WYYW got its current call sign.

It's still not known when what is now WYYW-CD will be ready on Channel 15.  They're waiting for the tower company to move the antenna at the transmitter site in Warrick County.  When it's all done, WYYW will match WTSN's 15 kW effective radiated power and coverage area.

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Unusual WUSI-TV channel swap should be fixed, says executive director

Petrowich says no plans exist to make both WSIU and WUSI show up as channel 8

UPDATE, 2:32 p.m.: In the original version of this story, I inadvertently misspelled Greg Petrowich's name.  I've now corrected that, and I apologize for the error.

Over the past couple of weeks, I've noticed - and some readers have as well - that WUSI-TV out of Olney mysteriously changed from channels 16.1 through 16.4 over the air to 8.1 through 8.4, mirroring WSIU-TV, its sister station in Carbondale.

It created some confusion - and not just for those of us who watch!  Greg Petrowich, executive director of WSIU Public Broadcasting, said it shouldn't have happened at all, and they're not even sure what caused it.

"We have no plan or intent" to make both stations channel 8, he told me via email Friday.

Petrowich says they've reset things at the transmitter site, and things should be back to normal.

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