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Originally Posted by Aaron62
I'd say you have 4 stations, but 8 channels. Technically, you could say I'm wrong, but that's just the way I see it since all 8 of those channels and subchannels are displaying different programming.
Guess we need some kind of reference to clarify this further because I would have made the same mistake Orry and 1inxs did talking about channels too.
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I go by the fact that the actual RF range of frequencies used by a single TV transmitter has been called a channel for 50 years.
But the area between subchannels and TV stations has been blurred by digital.
I am not sure a "proper" terminology has been set by anyone including slang, but since slang forms the dictionary not the other way around, subchannels are rapidly in the public minds and speech being called channels.
Time and word usage on the street always wins in the end. Unless you are in an environment where technical or intellectual meaning are required.
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