G.T TYSON wrote:
I always found it unusual that WFXI-TV in Morehead City NC managed to
get a channel 8 VHF allocation assigned to them. There's a full-power 7
and 9 less than 50 miles away and another channel 8 just across the
border in Virginia. That must have taken some extremely creative
engineering.

Under the old regulations adjacent VHF channel full-power stations must
be at least 95.7km (just shy of 60 miles) apart. (87.7km, just shy of
55 miles, for UHF)

The FCC shoehorned in a few short-spaced allotments back in the early
1970s, and it took awhile for them to decide who'd get those allotments.
Channel 8 in Knoxville, TN and Altoona, PA are two examples.
--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com