On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 1:39 PM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 10:20 AM Ben Scripps <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> No more than all the other days…:-) (The station (WXMI) where I did my >> internship in college is one of the former Trib stations now owned by “the >> other Scripps”, which is, at least as far as I’ve been told, no relation.) >> >> Back to the original question, we (WWTV/WFQX) did a repack switchover >> last Friday (channel 21, with a PSIP of channel 45, simulcasting channel >> 32—try explaining that to a confused viewer). We had some delays over the >> summer with coordinating tower crews and good weather, but we fortunately >> weren’t off the air for any longer than necessary to do the work. >> > > Is there something going on nationally, like a new standard introduced? I > get my TV over the air and one local station (WTAE in Pittsburgh) has been > off the air for 11 days now. I called the station last week and was told > "they're working on the transmitter and the signal should be back by the > end of the week." I googled the station and searched on Reddit and there > was no notice or conversation about the shutdown. Now I see this is going > on in other cities. > > WCAX, the CBS affiliate in Burlington, Vt., was on and on this morning about how they were turning on their new transmitter at 9 a.m. today, which required OTA viewers to re-scan their channels. They mentioned that it had to do with the FCC giving some frequencies to cellular phone networks. I'm not sure if that's the case nationally or not. As of around 11 a.m. today, Videotron (my cable provider, who I assume takes WCAX over the air) still had a "technical difficulties" page up where the channel was supposed to be. John -- John Edwards "You can insure against the weather, but you can't insure against incompetence, can you?" - Phil Tufnell -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJLXtMKmM3HVMmm2oUgkQ2R9uqcx3qxssDLhXjH1QRASVbSc8Q%40mail.gmail.com.
