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WQED Pittsburgh
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 16:55:56 -0400
------ Forwarded Message From: David Foremsky <dforemsky () yahoo com> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 06:28:30 -0700 (PDT) To: dave () farber net Subject: WQED Pittsburgh Dr. Farber - First off, thank you so much for your mailing list. It's one of my first news stops in the morning. I was glad to see your message about WQED. I wish you luck in trying to change it. Another WQED item that I have been baffled about for years is why WQED is allowed to keep their license for WQEX, channel 16 in Pittsburgh. WQEX used to be an outlet for the less "mainstream" PBS shows in Pittsburgh, but many years ago WQED claimed they didn't have the money to keep broadcasting different programming on WQEX and since then has been simulcasting WQED on WQEX. This has been going on for almost 10 years. WQED tried to engineer a license swap with a local religious broadcaster in order to get a license that WQED could sell to raise money, but thankfully enough pressure was applied to get the religious broadcaster to back off. The link below gives a pretty good description of what they were trying to do: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~smonti/wqex/media/post-gazette19991231fcc5.htm Why can't the FCC just yank WQEX's license and give it to a group that would actually make use of the frequency? Simulcasting of WQED is obviously not in the public's interest, and as far as I am concerned WQED should NEVER profit from the WQEX license. Thanks again for the IP list, and best of luck with WQED. Hopefully something can be done about the flood of infomercials and 50's doowop shows. David Foremsky Coraopolis, PA (CMU class of 1993, Civil Engineering/Engineering and Public Policy) __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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