"This is Public Broadcasting in Massachusetts. Our legal name is the WGBH Educational Foundation. In Boston, we are licensed by the FCC to operate WGBH-TV Channel 2, WGBX TV Channel 44, and WGBH Radio, 89.7 FM. In Springfield, we operate WGBY-TV Channel 57. We offer programs that entertain, stimulate, and inform. Our purpose is to help you cope better with the world and your own life. We are non-commercial. For the funds that keep us free, we depend entirely on grants and contributions, large and small. These come from thousands of persons as well as from foundations, corporations and other agencies. We will always need your help."
this is public broadcasting in MA. our legal name is the WGBH Educational Foundation. in Boston, were licensed by the FCC to operate WGBH TV channel 2, WGBX TV channel 44 and WGBH radio, 89.7 FM.
I'm thinking cable leakage, as the co-channel interference has the same program as the dominant WGBH signal, and no station in the Sporadic-E ring would be broadcasting WGBH's signoff. You're absolutely right about Channel 2 getting more interference from other stations than the higher channels do. While WGBH was doing their unique in-house "nightlight" educational video about the DTV transition (featuring the cast of *This Old House*), I was seeing it almost every day in northern Michigan.
+Robert Pikula Why would that not be possible? It was always WGBH's secondary UHF channel (when analog TV was still in place); today, it still airs on virtual channel 44, and is mostly commonly channel 16 on cable systems, including Comcast.
He may have assumed that they could not have more than one station in the same market. That used to be true for commercial TV stations, but noncommercial stations could have more. Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Tacoma had two as well.
