Why isn't channel 10 analog broadcast in digital OTA

[beeper]

Anyone know why Milwaukee's channel 10 analog doesn't have a digital OTA counterpart?

Beeper

[Gregg Lengling]

Anyone know why Milwaukee's channel 10 analog doesn't have a digital OTA counterpart?

Beeper

It does it is on channel 8, it is a multicast running multiple programs. It plays both 10 and 36 programs 3 hours delayed, plus PBS KIDs and PBSU and a couple weather channels with music and the such.  TWC carries this in the 550's on their digital tier.

Channel 10 got a waiver from the FCC to do the multicast with delay for both 10 and 36 so they could use 36 digital (35) as a  full time HD production and not have to simulcast 36 programming.  They were the first in the country to get that waiver and it makes great sense.

[Bluto]

So, speculating, does the three hour delay for analog 10 and 36 - on 10.1 and 10.2 respectively - go away when analog broadcasts disappear in 2009?  And will digital 36 remain MPTV's HD channel as it is today?

[StarvingForHDTV]

I certainly hope that is what happens in 2009.