City of license Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===The new entrant=== A new network or station group will often enter a market after all of the most valuable available frequencies (such as the analogue VHF TV assignments in major cities) are already taken. This often results in building a network by constructing outlying stations, UHF stations, underpowered stations or some mix of all three. That can leave transmitters licensed to some very strange or tiny places. This happened to some degree with networks which signed on in the 1960s, such as [[National Educational Television]] in the US or the [[CTV Television Network]] in Canada. Later entrants fared worse. In the U.S., [[PAX Network]] (now [[Ion Television]]) was prone to this, building a network largely from outlying [[owned-and-operated station|owned-and-operated]] UHF stations. In Canada, third networks such as [[Global Television Network|Global]] were often a motley collection of outlying stations in their early years. [[CIII-TV|CKGN-TV]], Ontario's original "Global Television Network" repeater chain, signed on in 1974 in an already densely-packed stretch of the beaten-path Windsor-Quebec corridor in which few desirable channels were available. Cities such as [[Windsor, Ontario|Windsor]], [[London, Ontario|London]], [[Toronto, Ontario|Toronto]], [[Peterborough, Ontario|Peterborough]], [[Kingston, Ontario|Kingston]] and [[Cornwall, Ontario|Cornwall]]{{efn|Canada's broadcast regulator allows existing broadcasters in a market to oppose applications from new entrants if the competition would harm the existing station. Any attempt to locate in Kingston would likely be opposed by that city's lone originating station. CIII-TV never got a Cornwall transmitter as that city is in the Montréal market, which was subject to a moratorium on new entrants at the time.}} are notable by their absence from the network's original roster.<ref>Global Ontario [[CIII-TV]] signoff (1984) at www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCwHMFgW7Pw lists five transmitters, most in outlying markets, at reduced power or on less-desirable UHF channel assignments.</ref> The five transmitters on-air in 1984 (after a decade of operation as a struggling "third network") were: :* [[Sarnia, Ontario|Sarnia]] transmitting from Oil Springs on UHF 29 (370kW) :* [[Paris, Ontario|Paris]] on VHF 6 (at the full 100kW, the most allocated to a station of this class in Ontario) :* [[Uxbridge, Ontario|Uxbridge]] on UHF 22 (at the full 5000kW, the most powerful in the nation, but on an undesirable suburban UHF allocation nowhere near downtown Toronto) :* [[Bancroft, Ontario|Bancroft]] on VHF 2 (at 87kW - and later increased to the full 100kW, but in the speck-on-a-map unincorporated hamlet of [[Addington Highlands|Vennachar]], near Denbigh). :* [[Ottawa, Ontario|Ottawa]] on VHF 6 (at one-eighth the typical power for a station in its class, and on a sharp directional pattern focussed on Ottawa). This station had to protect [[CBMT]] (VHF 6, [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC Montréal]]) less than 120 miles distant - and this at a time when full-power VHF TV co-channel stations were typically spaced 175-200 miles (280-320km) apart to prevent interference. The majority of these transmitters were not licensed to the primary community served. Many were underpowered, short-spaced or in undesirable locations - often just putting enough signal into key communities to obtain cable [[must-carry]] protection. As the only transmitters to be operating on then-valuable VHF channels at anything other than greatly-reduced power were licensed to Paris and Bancroft, both awkward outlying communities, the Paris transmitter was arbitrarily listed as the main station for the entire network. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page