Power struggle. (Editorials).(interference by DTV signals)(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, June, 2002

Last week's complaint by WBOC-TV Salisbury, Md., about interference from a noncommercial station's powered-up DTV signal could be the tip of a very large iceberg. The FCC'S DTV separation scheme was based on models that are only now being tested in the real world, where only half the stations doing DTV are at full power and two-thirds of the country's stations aren't doing it at all.

WBOC-TV's complaint centered on a water-related propagation issue that the FCC has conceded makes interference predictions hazy at best. What other hazy predictions will come a cropper when all those DTV stations operating at reduced power start powering up. The FCC ought to grant WBOC-TV's request that its offending neighbor power down until the issue can be resolved and, for the...

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