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Digital TV Antenna - WGHP/Fox 8 will turn off its channel-8 digital transmitter on Monday, switching over permanently to its channel 35 transmitter.

After last June's digital transition, WGHP found that many of its viewers could not pick up its digital VHF signal on channel 8, either because the signal was not strong enough or because many customers had the wrong type of antennas for VHF broadcasts. WGHP got "special temporary authority" from the Federal Communications Commission to run its signal on both channel 8 and UHF station channel 35 while it figured out whether it could boost the VHF signal or whether it would need to switch to UHF permanently.

The station found that some customers, especially ones without outside antennas, could not pick up the VHF digital signal. The other stations in the market broadcast on UHF.

"It certainly costs us more for electricity and maintenance (to run UHF)," said Ross Mason, the chief engineer at WGHP. "But when customers can't get us, you can't just say, ‘Too bad, get cable.' Being on 35 was the only viable solution."

The channel-8 transmitter will be switched off shortly after 11 a.m. Monday. Some customers may need to rescan their digital-converter boxes to pick up UHF channel 35 if their boxes had been able to pick up channel 8 before. Most boxes translate the channel number to 8, since that is the number traditionally associated with WGHP, even if they are actually broadcasting channel 35.

The station has not figured out what it will do with the VHF channel-8 transmitter equipment, Mason said.

Jennifer Ehle, a Winston-Salem native, has been cast in a new fantasy-adventure series on HBO.

She will join Sean Bean, Lena Headey and Peter Dinklage in Game of Thrones, a series based on the popular fantasy book series by author George R.R. Martin. Production will begin in Belfast this June, according to the Hollywood Reporter

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