Welcome to the TV section of my humble repository of technical facts about WV radio and TV broadcasting. Below is a table by channel of what's licensed to WV. Click on the call sign to get a plot of a station's coverage. Click on the community of license to pull up a regional map of transmitter locations. A little antenna icon at the end indicates use of a directional antenna. Click on it to see a plot of the antenna pattern. Done? Head back!

I used the FCC Audio Service Division's Web-based HAAT tool (down, temporarily) to create the FM and TV coverage plots. With access to digitized terrain data, the tool automates the calculation of VHF or UHF propagation by FCC standard methods for 360 radials. However, only the first 16 km of terrain is used in each radial to establish the average terrain needed in the propagation calculation.

Key to the coverage plots: black = city grade coverage limit, blue = Grade A service limit, and red = Grade B service limit. The definitions of these limits are different for the low-VHF (chs. 2 - 6), high-VHF (chs. 7 - 13), and UHF stations.

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