QUESTION ABOUT CHANNEL 20

[OldChicago]

I was looking at a listing of TV stations in the Chicago area and I saw something the shocked me.  In spite of WYCC being full-power on channel 20 from Chicago, there seems to be a listing for a low-power station on
the same channel in Aurora.  It is listed to POLNET and I forget and can't find the call letters right now.  Is that for real?


Old Chicago

[KeithE4]

I was looking at a listing of TV stations in the Chicago area and I saw something the shocked me.  In spite of WYCC being full-power on channel 20 from Chicago, there seems to be a listing for a low-power station on
the same channel in Aurora.  It is listed to POLNET and I forget and can't find the call letters right now.  Is that for real?

WYCC is on RF channel 21, not 20.  Its PSIP is 20.x, mapped to its former analog channel.  WPVN-CD Aurora is on RF channel 20, but the CDBS database doesn't show a PSIP (21.x?).  It can't be 20.x without causing confusion with WYCC...or can it? 

[Dave]

I was looking at a listing of TV stations in the Chicago area and I saw something the shocked me.  In spite of WYCC being full-power on channel 20 from Chicago, there seems to be a listing for a low-power station on
the same channel in Aurora.  It is listed to POLNET and I forget and can't find the call letters right now.  Is that for real?

WYCC is on RF channel 21, not 20.  Its PSIP is 20.x, mapped to its former analog channel.  WPVN-CD Aurora is on RF channel 20, but the CDBS database doesn't show a PSIP (21.x?).  It can't be 20.x without causing confusion with WYCC...or can it? 

WPVN-CD is on RF 20, but their PSIP is 24.X.  24 is the former analog channel that was I believe a TBN translator.  Wikipedia had the translator calls as W24AJ.

Now up in Madison Wisconsin, WHA is on RF 20, but they map to their former analog channel, PSIP 21.X

[avtosalon]

24 is the former analog channel that was I believe a TBN translator.

Analog Channel 24 from Aurora, used to be owned by Nelson Broadcasting.  It was a translator of co-owned Analog Channel 30 WSPY-LP from Plano, an 'America One' affiliate.

[Dave]

24 is the former analog channel that was I believe a TBN translator.

Analog Channel 24 from Aurora, used to be owned by Nelson Broadcasting.  It was a translator of co-owned Analog Channel 30 WSPY-LP from Plano, an 'America One' affiliate.

I knew it was one of the companies.  TBN had a lot of translators in the market, because WWTO doesn't cover the entire market (and thought the now WPCN-CD was one of them).  Even at 80kw, I'm not sure how many suburbs near Chicago can pick it up.  TV Fool shows stray coverage of WWTO in Indiana, & I know I can't pick it up (don't care to either).