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Almavision in Houston

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Mediafrog

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Did one of my occasional scans of OTA TV on my trusty old B&W portable over the weekend, and noticed that the low power channel 34 in Houston (KVIT) has switched to the Spanish language Almavision religious network. This facility had been running Home Shopping Network until at least a couple of months ago, so not sure when the changeover took place. Still same signal quality as before at my Cy-Fair location; according to the FCC website running 40kw ERP from Missouri City with a directional antenna shooting towards downtown Houston.

During a lengthy network ID at the top of the hour which listed every station carrying Almavision, they gave two channels for Houston, both 34 and 56. I couldn't find anything on 56 at my location, so not sure if that is actually on the air. Nothing on the FCC site for this either, from a quick check. The Almavision website is rather out of date, and does not mention any Houston stations.

Almavision has a couple of stations in DFW, IIRC. They apparently run Spanish and English program streams.

Still waiting on the upgrade of LP Channel 30 and its switch to Hispanic targeted LAT-TV. Their new signal should be on par with the recent upgrades for channels 21 and 43. Shop at Home network was still running on 30.
 
> Almavision has a couple of stations in DFW, IIRC. They
> apparently run Spanish and English program streams.

They are running on three LPTVs in Dallas/Fort Worth, on channels 22, 28, and 50.

I have a suspicion that as fast as this network is apparently growing, they will probably over-expand and run themselves into a financial ditch...but I guess time will tell on that.
 
Hoy much coverage do they have at this moment in Houston and will this compete with the signal Kvqt has
 
> Hoy much coverage do they have at this moment in Houston and
> will this compete with the signal Kvqt has

I'm approx 25 miles NNW from 34's transmitter site (assuming the FCC database is correct; I have some suspicion on this.) The signal from 34 is poor here, but viewable--the audio does better than the video. They are running less than a third the ERP of 21 and 43--two signals that are pretty decent at my location.

This reception is all on an old B&W portable set using a UHF hoop antenna; I have to do a bit of adjusting to get the best reception. Someone who had a good rooftop directional antenna would do much better with these signals.

34 needs an upgrade on par with 21 and 43 in order to have any chance of survival. Of course, without cable/satellite coverage, all these LP's might be toast anyway.

The impending upgrade for 30 (soon to be LAT-TV) should pull it equal to 21 and 43.
 
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