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A Few Local Channels Off the Air

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This morning sometime between 10:30 and 11:30, channel 7, NJN, 9, 11, PAX/I, and a few other local channels were off the air for a while. Fox 5 was off for a just a few minutes, but Channel 2 and Channel 4 stayed on the air. Does anyone know what happend? Maybe it was just my cable service, but I doubt that because the regular cable channels were still on.<P ID="signature">______________
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> This morning sometime between 10:30 and 11:30, channel 7,
> NJN, 9, 11, PAX/I, and a few other local channels were off
> the air for a while. Fox 5 was off for a just a few minutes,
> but Channel 2 and Channel 4 stayed on the air. Does anyone
> know what happend? Maybe it was just my cable service, but I
> doubt that because the regular cable channels were still on.
>

Sounds like a cable-company problem. Most of the
stations you mention are in New York, but NJN is
not...so it's unlikely that there was a problem
common to the TV stations. More likely someone
tripped over a wire at the local cable company.
 
> Channels 7,9,11 and 13 share a common antenna at the Empire State Building. A problem in the diplexer can effect them together. They may have been working on the antenna. Channels 4 and 5 are also diplexed into an antenna at the very top of the Empire mast. You may have noticed better siganl quality from channels 4 thru 13 lately due to the improvements in the antenna system
Channel 9 also dropped off the air for awhile last night while there appeared to be a pulsing kind of distortion in channel 11.
 
Channel 2

> > Channels 7,9,11 and 13 share a common antenna at the
> Empire State Building. A problem in the diplexer can effect
> them together. They may have been working on the antenna.
> Channels 4 and 5 are also diplexed into an antenna at the
> very top of the Empire mast. You may have noticed better
> siganl quality from channels 4 thru 13 lately due to the
> improvements in the antenna system
> Channel 9 also dropped off the air for awhile last night
> while there appeared to be a pulsing kind of distortion in
> channel 11.
>

Interesting. Going off topic, Channel 2 (WCBS) is more fuzzy or staticy than the others. Any reason for that?<P ID="signature">______________
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