Background and Format
The network consisted entirely of low-power television stations that operate on channel 6. The audio portion of that TV channel operates at 87.75 MHz, at the very low end of the FM radio spectrum in the United States, and can be picked up on FM radios provided the station broadcasts in analog television. Pulse 87 stations operated a dance radio format.
Mega Media did not own any stations, instead opting to lease time from the stations.
There are currently no "Pulse 87" affiliates. The network only ever succeeded in getting its programming on one station, WNYZ-LP in New York City, which ran the format from February 2008 through October 2009. Mega Media had announced plans to bring the "Pulse 87" brand to three other low-power stations, KSFV-CA in the San Fernando Valley (serving Los Angeles, California), WDCN-LP in Washington, D.C. and WLFM-LP in Chicago, Illinois, all of which would have started carrying Pulse 87 programming on June 1, but those plans were scrubbed after leasing deals with the owners of those stations fell through.
Since low-power television is unaffected by the digital television transition, the stations would have been able to continue to broadcast beyond the full-power analog shutoff date of June 12, 2009. If and when low-power stations are also forced to switch to digital (currently slated for 2015), this will effectively bring an end to this usage of television as a radio, unless the Federal Communications Commission frees up the Channel 6 frequency for radio broadcasting (digital television on the VHF low band, where channel 6 resides, has been very problematic and subject to interference). A proposal by WRGB in Albany, New York to broadcast FM audio using a vertically-polarized 87.75 MHz carrier on an experimental basis had failed (causing co-channel interference between the digital signal on channel 6 and the analog FM signal at 87.75 FM), with technical constraints effectively precluding the co-existence of analog audio with a digital TV channel 6.
Read more about this topic: Pulse 87
Famous quotes containing the words background and and/or background:
“... every experience in life enriches one’s background and should teach valuable lessons.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)
“Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)