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Coyotes Games to be Broadcast on Subchannel of KNXV and KGUN

It sounds like a Scripps problem, not a Cox problem as the low picture quality of the the Coyotes on 61 is happening on other providers. See the Reddit post I screenshot below. 61.1 looked low quality yesterday too. Today it looked a little better, but still lower quality than 15.2.
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There are no issues with OTA. If Scripps is responsible for any of this, then it's due to fiber they use, if any, to send the channels to the other carriers apart from an OTA link. Via antenna, it's perfect.
 
There are air chain problems between the telecast and viewers.

One is Cox's problem, and that's that they are not feeding 15.2 in HD to subscribers when it is HD at the source.

The other is Scripps's problem, and that's that the game feed on 61.1 is not in SD.
 
powergate92 said:
They just made an announcement during the game that CW61 is where to find the Coyotes games this season. Now the question is was that announcement a mistake or has Scripps worked out something with Nexstar to postpone CW programming as most Coyotes games will be at 7 PM after this week.
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Guess that announcement during the game the other day was a mistake. Looks like Scripps has decided to air tonight's Coyotes game on just 15.2. I wonder if they upgraded Cox Channel 95 to HD yet. Guess they couldn't work out something to postpone CW programming.
Edit: Sounds like things are still in flex when it comes to which games are broadcast on as Scripps tries to figure out what they are doing with Coyotes games.
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The rep tries to blame it on technology, but that's a farce. The key is that they won't carry it. Whether it's a choice not to carry secondary subchannels at all (15.1 is also a subchannel - so he's misleading there as well) or that DirecTV doesn't believe that carrying channel 15.2 is financially beneficial enough for them (which is likely), it's still a choice on their part, and one that they have every right to make.
 
dhett said:
The rep tries to blame it on technology, but that's a farce. The key is that they won't carry it. Whether it's a choice not to carry secondary subchannels at all (15.1 is also a subchannel - so he's misleading there as well) or that DirecTV doesn't believe that carrying channel 15.2 is financially beneficial enough for them (which is likely), it's still a choice on their part, and one that they have every right to make.
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Well, to be fair, there's nothing else to 15.2 beyond running Antenna TV off the bird.

I agree with @Sammi Brie in that Scripps is largely playing out the string with the CW on 15 and 58 (and possibly groupwide) and that they will go indie on September 1, 2024.
 
Just noticed that E.W. Scripps had its Q3 Earnings Call the other day, apparently Scripps says that Coyotes ratings have increased 900% since moving to Channel 15.2.

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And in Phoenix, the Arizona Coyotes' ratings have increased a whopping 900% of from their RSN distribution last year. The equation is simple. More audience reach generates higher ratings to deliver Scripps significant new revenue right now, primarily through incremental and meaningful core advertising revenue growth and higher distribution revenue for the independent stations on which they air.
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I'm willing to bet that Gray will report a huge viewership increase for the Suns on KTVK as well. Maybe not 900%, but a big number.

The Diamondbacks (who are homeless, now that the World Series is over) need to take the hint.
 
Some of the Coyotes' increase can also be attributed to playing in a 5,000 seat arena that most fans cannot afford a ticket to. We'll see what happens when (if?) the Coyotes stay in Phoenix and get an NHL-size arena to play in, but I'm still loving seeing local professional sports back on the broadcast airwaves.

We'll also see what happens next year. KASW's affiliation agreement with The CW expires in August. Some here have already predicted that Scripps will do here what they did with KMCC in Las Vegas: take the station independent and broadcast sports there on the primary subchannel, giving them must-carry rights if they can't do a retransmission agreement with the cable & satellite companies. I could see that happening.
 
dhett said:
Some of the Coyotes' increase can also be attributed to playing in a 5,000 seat arena that most fans cannot afford a ticket to. We'll see what happens when (if?) the Coyotes stay in Phoenix and get an NHL-size arena to play in, but I'm still loving seeing local professional sports back on the broadcast airwaves.

We'll also see what happens next year. KASW's affiliation agreement with The CW expires in August. Some here have already predicted that Scripps will do here what they did with KMCC in Las Vegas: take the station independent and broadcast sports there on the primary subchannel, giving them must-carry rights if they can't do a retransmission agreement with the cable & satellite companies. I could see that happening.
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Look like you are right. But it may be sooner than that. KASW has changed the logo on its TV listings page from CW61 to Arizona 61 with the same logo as Golden Knights station KMCC Vegas 34 and Golden Knights/Arizona Coyotes station KUPX Utah 16. Could be a sign of KASW going independent with the Coyotes in the New Year.
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Looks like two Coyotes games are scheduled next week on November 20th and 22th 1000006308.pngin place of CW programming on KASW. CW programming is still scheduled on other nights.
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I have a feeling KASW 61 hasn't finished updating their schedule with TV listings providers yet. Looking at a multi-day, multi-time TV listing on TitanTV, there are a few other differences to KASW's schedule on Coyotes game days that have nothing to do with the Coyotes. And The CW programming on Coyotes game days is nowhere to be found, not even being preempted and aired at a different time. Not seeing it listed on a different channel yet either.
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I used TitanTV for OTA TV scheduling for over one year but changed to ONTV about six months ago due to Titan's many mistakes. I've only found one so far on ONTV (on the same day as the DST switch of course).
 
Scripps has also recently registered the website arizona61.com on November 2nd most likely as the new website for the rebranded station similar to vegas34.com and utah16.com
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