When there's no regulator to call on …
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Originally Posted by roger1818
I was actually planning on intervening against Global's Ottawa repeater primarily because they will be remaining on channel 6, which has proven to be very problematic (the analog signal is very difficult to receive well and experience in the USA has shown that VHF-LO is even worse for DTV). Now it looks like that won't be possible.
With the CRTC out of the picture on this one, concerned viewers such as yourself could call Global now to ask them about this potential problem. Surely, the trouble with VHF-LO is not a secret in broadcast engineering circles.
Perhaps Global can explain to you directly why they chose to remain on Channel 6 instead of moving to VHF-HI or UHF.
That said, there's nothing to stop Global from asking to increase their ERP, or even to move off Channel 6 in the future.