WDEF News 12 Now officials said Monday they’re worried that possible 12-story buildings on the old foundry site slated to also hold the Chattanooga Lookouts new stadium could block the station’s signal.
“This of course would result in a blackout of our signal to a large portion of our viewing area,” said Phillip Cox, a consultant and former general manager at the station. “It would interrupt our federally mandated public service responsibility to inform the audience with emergency broadcasts.”
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Cox raised the concern before the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Regional Planning Commission, where the owners of the 127-acre South Broad District tract were seeking new zoning for the parcel.
Perimeter Properties sought the rezoning of the former U.S. Pipe/Wheland Foundry property to allow buildings as high as 12 stories and more dense development around the planned Lookouts multiuse ballpark.