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Antenna TV back on WCRN

Just curious, what exactly is the broadcast area for WCRN? I can actually pick it up at my apartment in downtown Natick, and I didn't think I would. It doesn't show up on Zap2it.
 
RetroTV is a low grade Broadcaster who can't get their act together - They lost affilates when stations jumped to MeTV and most affilates in major markets are low-powers - bad enough they've tied up American broadcast rights to Classic DOCTOR WHO keeping the classic show from a relaunch on PBS stations, they load up their line-up with poor quality public domian shows intermixed with the few shows they can afford to licnese. (Who wants to watch the cheeply made 1970's Canadian-US co production POLICE SURGON?) The only saving grace is they nationally carry Buffallo's OFF BEAT CINEMA and the existing 13 years solid run worth of episodes of the soap opera THE DOCTORS (The early seasons are incomplete, and The final couple of years turned out to have been wiped by NBC)

Funny thing is RetroTV when it was RTV WAS Good - they had "Wolfman Mac" B-movie hosted show out of Detroit, they had the Universal TV Library and ran RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, IT TAKES A THEIF and (KRAFT) SUSSPENCE THEATER - although they'd skip episodes of all 3 which was frustrating! But they lost affilates, and couldn't play their bills - or so it's been said.
 
WCRN-LD virtual ch. 13 is now back on (or is again receivable in Somerville) as of today.

The lineup is the same as when it last came in here about a month ago. 13.1-France 24 news (English), 13.2-France 24 news (Spanish), 13.3 still not there, no scan in, 13.4-"Fun Roads" channel, 13.5 supposed to be Antenna TV according to the display, but still a black screen as before.
 
I haven't seen it at all for a few weeks. No signal, no scan in.

I didn't know if it went off the air completely, or if its signal was no longer coming in here. Its reception has always been intermittent here in Somerville.
 
ssetta said:
Now the channel seems to be completely off the air. I can’t get it at all now. Did something happen?
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It's back on now. Very weak signal here in Somerville, my antenna has to be placed very precisely to get it.
It was always weak here though, so don't know if its any different from before.

Same channel lineup. 13.1-"France 24" news (English), 13.2-"France 24" news (Spanish), 13.3 still not there (no scan in), 13.4-"Fun Roads" channel, 13.5 supposed to be Antenna TV according to the display, but still scans in as a black screen as before.
 


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