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Originally Posted by jr_tech
One word here... MONEY! In general, It is cheaper to operate a lower power VHF station than a UHF station that must operate at higher power levels to obtain the same coverage....
jr
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Also most viewers get their signals via cable TV, and thus all a TV channel need do is just have a presense on the RF spectrum, and "must carry" rules are invoked. So the TV channel need not worry too much about reception problems, and cutting the electric bill by using lower power on VHF would make sense, as the cable company still will pipe the channel over their system to most viewers. Non cable subscribers are likely not that interesting to advertisers anyway "If they don't want to spend money on cable service, they probably won't spend the money to buy our product..."