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List of Channels in MS to be repacked

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gor88

The following MS TV stations (and stations from nearby states serving MS counties) will eventually change their actual channel numbers:

Biloxi, MS WLOX from 39 to 32
Booneville, MS WMAE from 12 to 9
Columbus, MS WCBI from 35 to 27
Fulton, MS W39CA-D from 39 to 24
Gulfport, MS WXXV from 48 to 25
Holly Springs, MS WBUY from 41 to 26
Jackson, MS WDBD from 40 to 14
Meridian, MS WTOK from 11 to 13
Meridian, MS WMAW from 44 to 28
MS State, MS WMAB from 10 to 8
Natchez, MS WNTZ from 49 to 15
Tupelo, MS WTVA from 8 to 11
Tupelo, MS WEPH from 49 to 17
Vicksburg, MS WLOO from 41 to 36

Memphis, TN:
W50EA-D from 50 to 15
WPXX from 51 to 33

Baton Rouge, LA:
WGMB from 44 to 25
WBHX-CD from 39 to 32
KBTR-CD from 41 to 36

New Orleans, LA:
KGLA-DT from 42 to 35
WDSU from 43 to 19
WLAE from 31 to 23
WWL from 36 to 27
KNOV-CD from 41 to 31
WPXL from 50 to 33
WBXN-CD from 36 to 18
WUPL from 24 to 17

Mobile, AL:
WMPV from 20 to 18
WKRG from 27 to 20
WEIQ from 41 to 30
WSRE from 31 to 24
WJTC from 45 to 35
WFGX from 50 to 14
WAWD from 49 to 25
WPAN from 40 to 31
 
There was only 1 winning bidder in the auction from any of the 10 DMAs serving Mississippi counties.

It was Class A LPTV religious station WWTW 34 Senatobia, MS, located in the Memphis DMA. It agreed to go off the air for $485,661.00.
 
I accidentally left these two changes off the Mobile, AL list above:

WDES-CD from 35 to 22
WFBD from 48 to 29
 
I have a question for someone with a digital engineering background. In the analog days, you could not put two TV stations on two adjacent channels (except for 4 & 5, and 6 & 7, which are not actually adjacent). I see where, after the repacking, some Mobile area stations end up adjacent to each other... for example WFGX on 14, WPMI on 15 ... and WHBR on 34 with WJTC on 35 ... and WEAR on 17, WMPV on 18. Obviously co-located digital TV stations can be adjacent to each other ... correct?
 
J Alex Bowab said:
I have a question for someone with a digital engineering background. In the analog days, you could not put two TV stations on two adjacent channels (except for 4 & 5, and 6 & 7, which are not actually adjacent). I see where, after the repacking, some Mobile area stations end up adjacent to each other... for example WFGX on 14, WPMI on 15 ... and WHBR on 34 with WJTC on 35 ... and WEAR on 17, WMPV on 18. Obviously co-located digital TV stations can be adjacent to each other ... correct?
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yes
as long as the towers are within (I want to say) 15 miles apart then you can have adjacent stations
Minneapolis has had a few of them since the DTV transition

22 (WUCW CW) and 23 (KTCI PBS)
31 (Daystar LP), 32 (WCCO CBS), 33 (3ABN LP), 34 (KTCA PBS), 35 (KSTP ABC)
16 (EWTN LP) and 17 (WUMN Univision)

Come 2019 you can put 30 KSTC Independent in that bunch (moving from 45)
 
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