Chapter8.9
Broadcast Television Co-Location Site Management
Introduction and Overview
Tower Sharing Using Combiners—Multiple TV Stations
Shared tower sites offer broadcasters significant cost savings by sharing a facility and a reduction in personnel (labor expenses), location expenses (leasing) and shared equipment expenses. The broadcasting benefit for sharing tower space using a combiner system is to utilize the best broadcast location (for audience coverage) available in the stations’ market.
Stations benefit by the joint effort among broadcast engineers through collaboration on site selection, position on the tower, technical design parameters and cost savings. Cost ...
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