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Any HD Subchannels in San antonio?

J

jras20

Does anyone know if there is any HD Subchannels in San antonio? I heard WOAI has weather plus on 4.5 is that still around? I'm about to get a DVD recorder with HD Tunner I'd like to see that channel.
 
San Antonio has a few Digital Subchannels i entered the zip code 78201 and this is a quick list of what i got.
All of the Following have some kind of Digital Subchannel
WOAI 4-NBC
KENS 5-CBS
KLRN 9-PBS
KSAT 12-ABC
KHCE 16-TBN
KWEX 41-Univision

WOAI and KENS have Weather Subchannels
KSAT carries LATV

These Channels do not currently have Digital Subchannels
KABB 29-FOX
KMYS 35-MNTV
KVDA 38-Telemundo

*i am not from San Antonio these listings are from Titantv.com so i apologize in advance if the info is wrong.
 
KSAT's 12-2 subchannel is mostly unused now, except to show radar during bad weather. Until the first of the year, they showed the Transguide feed that cycled through traffic cameras.

KENS 5-2 shows radar continuously.

WOAI has NBC Weather Plus on 4-2 with local graphics and cut-ins. 4-3 is unused AFAIK.

KLRN uses 3 subchannels during the day to show different PBS feeds and drops back to 1 at night to devote most of the bandwidth to PBS-HD.

I don't spend much time watching KHCE 16-TBN or KWEX 41-Univision.
 
I thought HDTV went just about as far as analog did? I can sometimes get WOAI 4 HD, but the rest I cant get, sometimes channel 60 but dont watch it much. I always thought that it went just as far as the analog TV did? I'm using a off the air antenna. and about 60 miles from San antonio, my TV is pointed to Austin, but I can get San antonio analog on the backside.
 
KENS, KLRN, KABB and KMYS are all using low-power DTV facilities, KENS, KABB and KMYS because they're still constructing full-power facilities, and KLRN because with them planning on using ch 9 after the analog shut-off, it doesn't make sense to build a full-power station on ch 8 just to abandon it in less than 2 years. They were allowed to license the lower power facilities. KCWX, KNIC and KPXL don't have a digital companion channels and will flash cut on 2/17/09. I don't know why you don't get KSAT; their DTV coverage is predicted to be nearly equal to their analog, but if you live on the fringe of the analog signal, you might not be picking up the "all-or-nothing" digital signal. I'm not sure if you watch KHCE or KWEX, but if you get their analog signals, you should also get their digital signals.
 
I might of fixed my problem, I can acually get better san antonio reception with just a pair of rabbit ears than my outdoor directional antenna. I can now get Austin/San antonio HD pretty decent. I may go shoping for a better pair of Rabbit ears though, I dont want to get any with a AMP, I want to get one with a aux. plug in so I can still use my Direct TV reciever over it also. I was able to recieve KABB with the rabbit ears also. Not KENS yet so they must still be on low power.
 
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