This left the five full-power commercial stations in the market operated by two entities.
Fiske said someone would have to report a full-power station for violating the rule.
Those groups who did not have the capital to build a full-power station were forced into piracy.
That number of unique full-power stations is normally not enough to legally support a duopoly.
Additionally, Columbia has only eight full-power stations, not enough to legally allow a duopoly in any event.
All of Cincinnati's full-power stations, in contrast, carried programming from national networks.
It is the only full-power station in the Flathead.
There are nine full-power stations in the state network:
The Dayton market has only seven full-power stations which are not enough to legally permit a duopoly.
Both are also licensed as class D, meaning they must accept interference from all full-power stations.