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KATC in Lafayette, La., powered up its digital transmitter in early November, a little more than a year after the FCC issued the station's facilities construction permit. The migration required a new tower and transmitter facility.
"We hadn't moved one shovel or dirt before that CP was issued," said Andrew Shenkan, president and general manager of KATC, an ABC affiliate and one of 13 stations owned by Cordillera Communications of Duluth, Minn. "We got the construction permit on Sept. 29 of 2006."
The full-power signal from the 1,000 kW Harris digital transmitter and Dielectric stick commenced transmission Tuesday, Nov. 6. Previously, the station's digital signal was going out...