On Jul 16, 11:36*pm, Steve Urbach
wrote:

San Francisco,Oakland,San Jose area
2, 4, 5 are very good and popular stations in the low VHF band

All active analog stations with a digital signal are broadcasting
that digital signal on a different channel. The ATSC tuners maps them
to the displayed channel number. Some 500 stations will flash cut
their digital signal back to their analog channel next February after
the analog shutdown, but the vast majority of the low VHF analog
stations will have their physical be on UHF or upper VHF.

In the San Francisco market,
KTVU-DT Fox 2 is currently on UHF 56, will move to UHF 44 next year.
KRON-DT MyN 4 is currently on UHF 57, will move to UHF 38 next year.
KPIX-DT CBS 5 is currently on UHF 29 and will stay there next year.
KGO-DT ABC 7 is currently on UHF 24, will flash cut to VHF 7 next
year.
KNTV-DT NBC 11 is on UHF 12 and will stay there next year.

The San Francisco market has perhaps the most complicated transition
of any city in the US next February and in the months afterwords,
Stations will be putting up new antennas on the Sutro Tower, taking
old ones off, moving to channels currently occupied by other analog
stations. Many stations will be using their backup reduced coverage
antennas in the daytime when the tower is being worked on.

Alan F