Station Flying Below The FCC's Radar?

[Mattswad]

I found this link a while back and forgot to mention it, but has anyone ever heard of "z47" a.k.a. "tv47" out of New York City & Atlanta/Duluth?

They are/were a group pushing the streaming/internet tv mode but what I find VERY ODD is that on the right column of their website ( www.z47.org/tv-47 ) near the bottom, they mention,
"Tv-47 is also available over-the- air on low power analog WATV-47 Channel 3 Peachtree City, GA."

I have googled every possible combination of those call letters along with the z47 permutation and I only get results related to the seemingly 5,000 variations of the above URL these guys aparently bought at one point. I've also queried the FCC webpage and several non-government-run webpages for call letters, channel numbers, even ANY licensed broadcaster in Peachtree City, GA to no avail.

I'm not far from there (Fairburn) but I've never noticed picking it up and haven't since I stumbled onto this page. And since I used to have my convertor box set to output channel 3 and have stumbled into bed late at night accidentally turning the convertor box off resulting in a thunderous KKCKCKCKHHKKKCKKKCHKCCCCH!!!!! noise, I think I (or the misses) would have noticed it.

Fellas take notice: Now she is awakened in the dead of night by the soothing tones of me stumbling over a guitar and WUVM-LP analog channel 4 airing some Spanish gibberish neither of us can make heads nor tales of at 130 decibals. And I gotta say, our love life is better than ever!

(been sleeping on the couch for awhile)

[gregg75]

The 47 I get are 4 Korean channels 47.1 to 47.4. Not sure where they are located.

[tripinva]

The 47 I get are 4 Korean channels 47.1 to 47.4. Not sure where they are located.

To quote the next line of the linked website:

"Tv-47 has no affiliation with WKTB-LD channel 47 Norcross, Georgia"

- Trip

[Mattswad]

Trip, you are the main one (oh wise one!) I wanted to ask about the possibilities of this lp analog station even ever existing. Would something as they stated even be possible without FCC registration? If you're unfamilliar with the area, Peachtree City is the yuppiest, whitey-est, richy mc richiest yutzified area around the southside of the ATL (this coming from a poor cracker on the southside) and I doubt that ANYONE in that city still used rabbit ears in the 1970's much less rabbit ears + analog tv in 2010.

Or was this some hobbyist with the equivilant of a CB radio amplifier in his backyard?

[w9wi]

Trip, you are the main one (oh wise one!) I wanted to ask about the possibilities of this lp analog station even ever existing. Would something as they stated even be possible without FCC registration? If you're unfamilliar with the area, Peachtree City is the yuppiest, whitey-est, richy mc richiest yutzified area around the southside of the ATL (this coming from a poor cracker on the southside) and I doubt that ANYONE in that city still used rabbit ears in the 1970's much less rabbit ears + analog tv in 2010.

Or was this some hobbyist with the equivilant of a CB radio amplifier in his backyard?

Sounds to me like some guy with video streaming software & the RF modulator out of an old VCR.  There may (or may not) be an analog OTA signal on channel 3 but if there is, I doubt it covers more than a city block.

[tripinva]

I concur with Doug 100%.

- Trip

[w9wi]

Oh, to directly answer Mattswad's question:

Would something as they stated even be possible without FCC registration?

Well, definitely, if there is an over-the-air signal here, it's unlicensed.  That's not particularly unusual on FM.  It's rarer on TV but not unheard-of.  The FCC really only comes into play if someone complains.  If he's running a watt or so on analog channel 3, chances are nobody has even *noticed*, let alone get upset enough to call the feds. 

If he's only online, then the FCC really could care less; there is no way to register an online station with the Commission even if you wanted to.

[Mattswad]

Thanks everyone for your input! I have family from there and may ask them to scope it out one day or I'm not above bringing a pair of rabbit ears to next year's Thanksgiving dinner! Seriously, I'm straight up nerd and po'boy like that :p