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Alaska station goes from UHF to VHF
By Glen Dickson — Broadcasting & Cable

After full-power broadcasters accomplished analog operations on June 12 and acclimatized into their final agenda TV (DTV) assignments, one of the aboriginal allegation was that stations with VHF approach assignments were experiencing far added accession problems than their UHF counterparts.

Reception issues were decidedly accustomed in Eastern cities like Philadelphia and New York, area the cardinal of stations in abutting adjacency meant that VHF stations had to abbreviate their ability to abstain arrest and were generally larboard with signals clumsy to access into accommodation barrio for accession on baby calm antennas.