**Channel number changes in Verdi
Residents who have watched KNPB on translator channel 54 (Verdi, Mogul, and surrounding areas) now receive KNPB programming on channel 42. Channel 54 was permanently disabled as of December 15, 2007.
Check
with your local cable provider for more information.
In
much of the country, a television station has a single transmitter
that broadcasts to its entire audience. But in mountainous or
sparsely populated areas, a television station usually cannot
cover its entire coverage area with just one signal. This is where
translators come in. A translator is a miniature television transmitter
that supplies a television station's signal to an area that the
television station otherwise couldn't cover. In most cases, the
translator will be on a different channel than that of the television
station which it is carrying. For example, Channel 5 is actually
carried by the Channel 25 translator in the Fallon area.
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