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Pulse 87 is an American television franchise that operated as a radio branding. The brand was formerly owned and operated by Mega Media. As of February 2010, the format was resurrected as an online internet station under new management following the bankruptcy and liquidation of its former owner. The brand returned to radio as the new branding for Dance outlet KYLI/Las Vegas, Nevada on June 24, 2014, and later expanded to Washington, D.C. with FM translator W249BE adopting the format in October 2014. ==Background and format== The network consisted entirely of low-power television stations that operated on the former analog channel 6. The audio portion of that TV channel operates at 87.75 MHz, at the very low end of the FM radio spectrum in the United States, and can be picked up on FM radios provided the station broadcasts in analog television. Pulse 87 stations operated a dance radio format. Mega Media did not own any stations, instead opting to lease time from the stations. There are currently no "Pulse 87" affiliates. The network only ever succeeded in getting its programming on one station, WNYZ-LP in New York City, which ran the format from February 2008 through October 2009. Mega Media had announced plans to bring the "Pulse 87" brand to three other low-power stations, KSFV-CA in the San Fernando Valley (serving Los Angeles, California), WDCN-LP in Washington, D.C. and WLFM-LP in Chicago, Illinois, all of which would have started carrying Pulse 87 programming on June 1,〔 〕 but those plans were scrubbed after leasing deals with the owners of those stations fell through. Since low-power television is unaffected by the digital television transition, the stations would have been able to continue to broadcast beyond the full-power analog shutoff date of June 12, 2009. If and when low-power stations are also forced to switch to digital (currently slated for 2015), this will effectively bring an end to this usage of television as a radio, unless the Federal Communications Commission frees up the Channel 6 frequency for radio broadcasting (digital television on the VHF low band, where channel 6 resides, has been very problematic and subject to interference). A proposal by WRGB in Albany, New York to broadcast FM audio using a vertically-polarized 87.75 MHz carrier on an experimental basis had failed (causing co-channel interference between the digital signal on channel 6 and the analog FM signal at 87.75 FM), with technical constraints effectively precluding the co-existence of analog audio with a digital TV channel 6. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pulse 87」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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