The CW 44cable 12(www.kbcwtv.com) began in 1968 as the first UHF station in the Bay area.

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UHF-broadcast market is as poor as that, why are the stations so reluctant to give it up?

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And due to the UHF communication setup, only about 30MB of data can be returned each day.

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In late January the Federal Communications Commission will auction off a chunk of the old UHF broadcast spectrum.

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In Japan, each of the 50 digital channels of terrestrial television in the UHF band is split into 13 segments.

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The show got its start on a UHF station in Minneapolis St.

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Add one more wireless variety to the list, as FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has confirmed his agency will vote on a proposal for incentive-based auctions of UHF spectrum.

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Still, the UHF plans foster dreams of more wireless for everyone -- and we suspect that even one Mr. Yankovic wouldn't mind giving up Channel 62 for a long-distance home network.

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In parceling out the airwaves, the FCC devotes skimpy spectrum to the booming market for 200 million cell phone users in the U.S. yet preserves barely used bandwidth for old UHF channels.

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His orders were to count to 10 and then tell me if he was still getting persistent clean UHF signal, which meant the descent stage wouldn't have fallen back on the rover.

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He said 'UHF persistent'.

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