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WNNE Goes Off the Upper Valley Airwaves Upper Valley television viewers who turned the channel to WNNE 31 today got a new experience. Nothing. At midnight last night, the former NBC affiliate -- based in Plattsburgh, NY and in Burlington, VT -- turned off its transmitter atop Mt. Ascutney. Viewers in this region who rely on an antenna to get television broadcasts will no longer get the station. It's still available through satellite and cable, but its only over-the-air transmission will now be from Mt. Mansfield -- as a CW affiliate. The station's Upper Valley office, off Sykes Mountain Avenue in White River Junction, will remain open. Advertisement: Content continues below... Curious about DailyUV ad rates? The change comes after both WNNE and Vermont PBS auctioned off their Mt. Ascutney broadcast licenses in last year's FCC spectrum auction, for about $50 million apiece. The turnoff moment was last night. However, Vermont PBS will continue broadcasting from Mt. Ascutney until November 30, after it got an extension to put in place a plan for allowing viewers who get their signal over the air to continue doing so. "We’re building out a replacement signal," says Jeff Vandegriek, Vermont PBS' viewer advocate. "We’ll be relaying the signal from our Rutland transmitter, and putting up four lower-power transmission sites across that region in order to relay that signal." One of those transmission sites will be atop Mt. Ascutney; the others will be in Northfield, Brattleboro, and Bennington. Meanwhile, Justin Antoniotti, the president and general manager of WNNE/WPTZ, is on vacation and unavailable for comment. Stay tuned. Digitally.
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Did not know this. Too bad as I live in Springfield VT and news of WPTZ mostly of New York State, sadly.
ReplyDeleteThey took their 50 MILLION dollars from the FCC and sold-out southern Vermont...
ReplyDeleteRidiculous. They made 50 MILLION dollars as part of a business deal, and believe it or not (and like it or not), that was their right. Businesses exist to make money.
DeleteSpoken like a true gop. Remember that young guy who bought the rights to a medicine and increased the price thousands of times? Hey he had every right to. And I know someone who actually agrees with that.
Delete"A true GOP" ... Financial disclosure forms reveal that out of the ten richest members of Congress, seven are Democrats. Collectively, the total wealth of the seven amounts to $1.1 BILLION. They didn't make that kind of money by being nice people.
DeleteWhy does EVERYTHING on this page turn into politics??
DeleteAnonymous 1:12, look back each and every time is someone that starts with slamming Trump, Conservatives, or the GOP in this case. We as Conservative just rebut the comments.
DeleteHate to say it, but broadcast television has been in the toilet for years. Cable/satellite isn't much better. With the amount of thoroughly witless garbage that passes for entertainment these days, we'd all be better off without it!
ReplyDeleteI discontinued tv service to my home 6 years ago. The content wasn't good and there were too many ads. In particular, there was a Comcast ad on every channel at every programming break; about 5% of the ever-increasing bill I paid to Comcast was for their ads. Now I get all the news, weather, and good shows I want from the internet; it's cheaper and the ads are easier to skip. BUT the FCC's decision to abandon net neutrality (the long pre-existing model for the internet that was good for everyone) will presumably change all that, so corporate heads who will never be sated can make consumers pay more to get less, per the norm in other industries.
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