Rich Civic Times
GARDEN CITY, Utah. November 26, 2017. Rich County TV channels are changing. Why? In order to free up spectrum the FCC held the largest auction ever in April, 2017 to buy and sell spectrum owned by 175 television stations. Fortunately local consumers if they have digital TV sets probably will not notice it after they have rescanned their sets.
In an article in Fortune Magazine by Aaron Pressman April 19, 2017 states …”wireless carriers and others bidding nearly $20 billion for the rights to spectrum currently in use by 175 television broadcast stations. But the FCC, the federal agency charged with overseeing the nation’s spectrum use now has an even bigger task ahead: reassigning almost 1,000 TV stations nationwide that operate in the part of the UHF spectrum band being sold.”
Eldon Kearl, a volunteer who helps Commissioner Bill Cox with the area TV, said that all the channels from 38 and up were sold so the local channels had to be reallocated.
In Utah the UHF channels from 38 up were sold to T-mobile. So the County has had to reallocate the channels.
The channels are received from Farnsworth Peak in Salt Lake City to Lewis Peak in Coalville to the Crawford Mountains east of Randolph. From the Crawfords the signals have to rebroadcast and sent to Laketown site which broadcasts to the Bear Lake Valley. Steve Kunz then rebroadcasts them to Bern Idaho. And each place needs to have an assigned set of channels.
With new technology the TV can be re-scanned from the sets own remote to set the new channels. The set will automatically reassign the channels we know as 2, 4, 5, 7, 13 and 14 .
Kearl will talk a person through the scanning process if needed. He can be reached at 208 945 1340.
Kearl said that “everything is up and working and better than before since they had to buy new equipment for the changes and to repair the damage that the big windstorm last year caused, knocking out towers and ham radios.
This change is happening throughout Utah.
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