LPTV station on Channel 6 in NYC
 

I've seen these on UHF but never on VHF. I saw color bars and heard a
tone Monday evening.

From responses to email sent to Glenn Hauser and usenet postings and
some Googling it is probably Island Broadcasting, WNYZ-LP, on top of
the Citibank (or maybe Citicorp or Citigroup now) building in Long
Island City (Queens). They already have a few stations on UHF. The
programming is probably going to be mostly ethnic.

Tonight they have an ID on the screen as WNYZ - NY.

Joel Rubin wrote:
I've seen these on UHF but never on VHF. I saw color bars and heard a
tone Monday evening.

They've been legal on VHF for decades. However, they haven't been legal
on channels adjacent to local full-power stations until very recently.
Since every other channel is already in use in NYC by full-power
stations that pretty much made VHF off-limits for LPs there until recently.

We had one on channel 5 in Madison, Wis. back in the early 1980s, and
that was by no means the first.
--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com

"Doug Smith W9WI" wrote in message
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Joel Rubin wrote:
I've seen these on UHF but never on VHF. I saw color bars and heard a
tone Monday evening.

They've been legal on VHF for decades. However, they haven't been legal
on channels adjacent to local full-power stations until very recently.
Since every other channel is already in use in NYC by full-power
stations that pretty much made VHF off-limits for LPs there until
recently.

We had one on channel 5 in Madison, Wis. back in the early 1980s, and
that was by no means the first.
--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com