Channel 70 was removed from television use in 1983, but was formerly used by television stations in
North America which broadcast on 806-812 MHz. In the
United States, channels 70-83 served primarily as a "translator band" containing
repeater transmitters to fill gaps in coverage for existing stations. Many are now defunct, the rest were to have been moved to lower frequencies:
NTIA had listed
K70DR[2][3] and
K70FL[4][5] (both on analog channel 70) among the
LPTV operations to be unaffected by the 2009 US
ATSCdigital television transition, based on license information current as of 2008. These two channel 70 repeaters were the last to remain licensed anywhere in the channel 70-83 range; as noted above, K70DR went dark at the end of 2011; K70FL moved to channel 23 and subsequently went dark.
Channel 70 was removed from television use in 1983, but was formerly used by television stations in
North America which broadcast on 806-812 MHz. In the
United States, channels 70-83 served primarily as a "translator band" containing
repeater transmitters to fill gaps in coverage for existing stations. Many are now defunct, the rest were to have been moved to lower frequencies:
NTIA had listed
K70DR[2][3] and
K70FL[4][5] (both on analog channel 70) among the
LPTV operations to be unaffected by the 2009 US
ATSCdigital television transition, based on license information current as of 2008. These two channel 70 repeaters were the last to remain licensed anywhere in the channel 70-83 range; as noted above, K70DR went dark at the end of 2011; K70FL moved to channel 23 and subsequently went dark.