…and no, we don’t mean in the vending machines in the basement of Reserve Square.
Raycom Media’s alleged Cleveland market CBS affiliate, known legally to the FCC as WOIO(TV) Shaker Heights, is requesting an immediate power increase for its digital TV facility on RF channel 10.
WOIO is asking to increase power from 3.5 kW to 9.5 kW on its existing antenna system.
The station recently received approval to mount a new, higher antenna that would put out 10.3 kW of power. The special temporary authority request would use the lower antenna WOIO’s digital facility is using now, until the 10.3 kW permit is built out and ready to take to the airwaves.
It’ll be interesting to see if this actually returns the station to many local digital converter boxes and tuners that have lost it in the past. Like, for example, all three digital tuners here at OMW World Headquarters, just 20 air miles from Parma.
Thanks to OMW reader Trip Ericson, proprietor of the excellent RabbitEars.info TV information site, for the heads up…
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