I'm going to go with the engineer either mis-poke or there was a miscommunication. There's nothing in the FCC file that indicates the digital facility was ever anything but what it still is.
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It is what you could call " A MESS."
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I'd expect it's going to get a lot messier as the repack progresses. All of the facilities operating on channel 38 and above must vacate those channels. And, since none of the translators (and other LP-class stations) are even guaranteed a post-repack channel, it's fairly likely that some will disappear completely and that the remaining ones get packed even tighter into the remaining channels, increasing the rate of co-channel and adjacent channel interference. Since this class of operator does not enjoy any interference protection under the rules, the mess will not get better.