A Wireless Regional Area Network (WRAN) endpoint comprises a transceiver for communicating with a wireless network over one of a number of channels, and a DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcast-Terrestrial) signal detector for use in forming a supported channel list comprising those ones of the number of channels upon which a DVB-T signal was not detected. The WRAN endpoint processes a received signal to provide two data segments and determines an average of the autocorrelation of the two data segments at each one of eight transmission modes for the DVB-T signal. The WRAN endpoint then determines if a DVB-T signal is present as a function of the largest average autocorrelation value.