KNRR Pembina, ND goes silent

**SamCdbs** · 10-28-2009 06:57 AM

This thread seems to be going off in two directions.

As to the OP, it seems that this channel is a victim, if that is the appropriate word, of the different time table between US and Canadian digital transitions, and the CRTC's sim-sub rules. Really, IMHO, leaving out the Canadian issues, with modern sat dishes, low power repeaters are not need. The 25K people who can get this station OTA can get TV via dish just as well.

As to the duopoly rule, the simple fact is that the FCC does not enforce the duopoly rule. If I built a 1w radio bandit station reaching an audience of 10 people, the FCC would expend 10s of 10000 of dollars to find me and when it did it would kick the door down and drag me away to jail. Sinclair has nearly two dozen illegal duopolies and the FCC is "looking into the matter".

A law that is not enforced is no longer a law.

**Iceberg** · 10-28-2009 12:56 PM

Originally Posted by SamCdbs

This thread seems to be going off in two directions.

As to the OP, it seems that this channel is a victim, if that is the appropriate word, of the different time table between US and Canadian digital transitions, and the CRTC's sim-sub rules. Really, IMHO, leaving out the Canadian issues, with modern sat dishes, low power repeaters are not need. The 25K people who can get this station OTA can get TV via dish just as well.

I agree that most repeaters in most areas are not needed...in that area the only digital channel that they can get is WDAZ (ABC) from Grand Forks