Digital signal bumps S.C. station
By BroadCasting & Cable Staff -- Broadcasting & Cable, 3/12/2002 5:26:00 AM
A South Carolina low-power station said it was forced off the air by the digital signal of a full-power station.
Greg Everett, president of GE Media, told the Federal Communications Commission he had to let WPDF-LP Florence go dark after it was denied class-A status and Media General Inc. CBS affiliate WBTW(TV)'s digital signal displaced WPDF's low-power one.
Without class-A protection, a low-power station must give way to a full-power station.
Everett, who also owns WFXB(TV) in the same market, told Broadcasting & Cable he believed much of the audience for the station's mix of locally produced religious and sports programming and its Family Network offerings was over the air, and continuing as a cable-only channel wasn't practical.
Local cable carrier Time Warner Cable, which carried WPDF until it went dark, said it's negotiating with Family Network for a direct feed.
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