That reminds me - the PBS affiliate threw in a new digital channel into the deal when they sold channel 2 - you getting much interference on your digital channels?
Any way you cut it, Daystar established that a channel in the Dallas market was worth at least $37 million. The folks at KDTN established that they could get less than $20 million.
I hadn't experienced any with 'the good gear' (some of the cheaper receivers in the 800 MHz band with 10.8 or 10.7 MHz IFs pick up some of the TV aural and visual carriers). I had a source of weak video carrier in the 440 MHz UHF ham band yesterday for awhile, but that's unrelated to any commercial broadcasts I think (there was coincidently a couple of carriers 4.5 MHz apart on 421.25 and 425.725 MHz about the same time)
About a year I documented the Dallas, TX Television RF Spectrum here . At the time there were eight new Digital UHF stations including a new digital CH 9 -
- several CH's have disappeared since then, such as CHs 46 and 60.
Like I said - Low-band VHF sucks. I think they may have found out the hard way. What I'm realating here on this subject aren't just superflous observations by an untrained member of the non-technical public - it is the product of accumulated observations and 'tests' by an interested 'observer' ... a couple of years ago I even went through the difficulty of cutting range patterns and measuring gain on a couple of multi-element Log Periodic TV antennas ...