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Old 02-02-2009, 11:36 AM   #21
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Originally Posted by ken0042 View Post
Well, I can understand when A-Channel (now CityTV) came into Calgary they were looking at getting themselves onto Shaw. So the OTA transmission would have been an afterthought and they likely just went with whatever the minimum required by the CRTC.

But I know what you mean- for example recently channels like CLT has started broadcasting OTA on the UHF band, and they have a weak transmitter too.

It could be with CFCN that all they are looking to do is get Shaw to simsub them; so they will put out the minimum signal required to allow them to do that.
This is where it gets into broadcast "contours". If they purposely do low broadcast power, would that change the contour (and hence simsub)?
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