[BC] RE: New Tower for WSKY-TV, Norfolk area, fell

[Scott Fybush]

r j carpenter wrote:
> The FCC claims that WSKY-TV NTSC has been silent for a number of months.
> The newspaper story linked by someone says the tower is being "moved"
> from the old site near Nags Head. Maybe they really did take down the
> tower and were trying to put it up at the new location. It also says the
> station is still "broadcasting" on cable and DirectTV.  Is this a case 
> of an FCC-licensed TV station which is really just a cable/SatTV channel 
> - no operating transmitter for a number of months? Curious.

I think, but am not certain, that WSKY "flash-cut" (under STA) to DTV on 
channel 4 a few months back from the old tower near Nags Head.

As an analog station on channel 4, WSKY had tight spacing to WTKR on 
analog 3 in Norfolk, so Nags Head was as close as it could get to 
Norfolk. As a DTV on 4, it has far less of a spacing restriction, hence 
the new tower just south of the NC/VA line. The station's always relied 
on cable and satellite to reach most of its audience, in any case.

s