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Business and Market Planning
(A wireless provider supports their investment)
| Challenge: |
Because of
interference on the 700 MHz spectrums, a wireless provider needed to
target UHF stations to purchase, and migrate the programming from the UHF
station to cable-only programming within the DMA. |
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| Solution: |
The footprint
of the UHF stations was matched to the MediaPrints Block Group translation
file, then used to profile population counts within each MSO. |
Report
Wireless licenses represent a major investment for wireless
companies. As more spectrum gets auctioned, companies must evaluate if they can
build a business case to support the investment. UHF channels in certain
channel positions can interfere with the 700 MHz spectrums. One proposal to
solve this business problem was to purchase UHF stations and migrate their
programming to cable only services.
One wireless provider used MediaPrints to support their business case. The
MediaPrints Block Group translation table and Warren Communication News’ Grade
A and B TV contours produced and aggregated a separate table, which identified
the cable system covering the majority of the people within the UHF TV contour.
This generated a list that was passed to the affiliate sales team to negotiate
carriage.
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