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Digital transition delayed!!!

Ohio Digital TV transition is going to be interesting. Some stations will go digital and some will wait for June 12th. For example WCMH 4 (UHF14) will stick to the February date WBNS DT 10 (UHF21) turn off its analog tower on the new date. No word on WOSU, WTTE, WSYX, WSFJ, WCPX LP48.

Now I did see something interesting on the Low Power WDEM TV17. When they air their station ID it says WDEM-DTV-CA 17. I did not see anything on the FCC website about them broadcasting digitally. It no longer airs American Store/HSN. Some sort of general entertainment/local shows airs on the station. Low-Power TV43 still airs HSN.
 
willcail said:
Now I did see something interesting on the Low Power WDEM TV17. When they air their station ID it says WDEM-DTV-CA 17. I did not see anything on the FCC website about them broadcasting digitally. It no longer airs American Store/HSN. Some sort of general entertainment/local shows airs on the station. Low-Power TV43 still airs HSN.
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WDEM has a permit to flash-cut to DTV on channel 17. I wonder if that conversion is imminent?

All the other low-power stations in Columbus also have permits to go digital:

WGCT-8: flash-cut
WDEM-17: flash-cut
WCLL-19: ch. 35
TBN-23: flash-cut
WCSN-32: ch. 33
HSC-43: ch. 47
WCPX-48: ch. 25
 
Is it true if all local stations in the market ok to flip to digital on the old date Feb 17 which was going to happen? Plus they already had their tower crews their so they don't want to buy them twice come June 12. I believe the reps were correct in this one with leaving it Feb 17. Obama has bigger things to worry about like jobs and money not the digital flip.
 
Update from the sticks...

Kansas City, as a market, will now mostly adhere to the new June 12 deadline. We had changed our minds yesterday about the old deadline, and now everyone else is following suit, pretty much out of fear. Of course, it comes just hours after two competitors were in the morning paper, telling everyone they would switch on Feb. 17 because the analog transmitters are ready to fail.

Topeka, Wichita, Oklahoma City, Omaha and Lincoln are all going with Feb. 17, it appears.
 
Here in the Denver CO. market I'm almost certain that all of the Denver stations are planning on flipping to all digital on Feb. 17/18.
 
Salt Lake City stations changed their collective minds Friday, and decided to stick it out four more months. One station had announced that they would stay analog, so the others folded out of fear of looking "uncaring".

Where's that extra $14,000 for the power bill? Oh, wait. It's not budgeted!
 
Thanks for posting that site!

I posted about some cable systems, such as mine, that are going to shut down on February 17th because it would not be economically viable for them to continue. I think my post was deleted. If I broke any rule, I apologize, but nothing I said was false or inflammatory. Many people are going to be shocked on the 18th, believing that, as cable customers, they'll be safe.
 
wrsg915fm said:
I posted about some cable systems, such as mine, that are going to shut down on February 17th because it would not be economically viable for them to continue. Many people are going to be shocked on the 18th, believing that, as cable customers, they'll be safe.
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What kind of cable system do you have? I would think the big chains, such as Comcast, Time Warner and even Charter, would be ready.
 
kenglish said:
Salt Lake City stations changed their collective minds Friday...(snip)...Where's that extra $14,000 for the power bill? Oh, wait. It's not budgeted!
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Not budgeted?

No problem--just do some additional layoffs, furloughs, unpaid days off, whatever
adds up to 14K, just so the Kettles can keep watching Jerry Springer every day
at 2 on the indie U.

Priceless. ::)
 
TheRob said:
Update from the sticks...

Kansas City, as a market, will now mostly adhere to the new June 12 deadline. We had changed our minds yesterday about the old deadline, and now everyone else is following suit, pretty much out of fear. Of course, it comes just hours after two competitors were in the morning paper, telling everyone they would switch on Feb. 17 because the analog transmitters are ready to fail.
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Here in Cleveland, Local TV's WJW/8 was the only one that filed earlier (presumably by corporate), but backed off later in the week. I'm wondering if that was a local decision, and what part of the combination of the new FCC rules, the inability to swap to digital 8 (they'd need an STA to do it before June 12th now), or being the only non-analog station in the market played into changing their minds.
 
w9wi said:
TBN-23: flash-cut
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That one isn't TBN's anymore (or subsidiary National Minority TV). TBN swapped it to Guardian Enterprise Group (GTN) as a local replacement for their purchase of "GTN 51" (WSFJ/51 Newark OH).

TBN now runs 51 as a typical O&O, and GTN moved its family entertainment/religious programming to LP 23...

http://www.gtn23.com/
 
For the stations that cut their analog on Feb. 17th, and go strictly Digital....

What's going to happen with the increased power that I was told about. After the switch to only Digital, I was told that the stations would be adding power to their Digital signal. Is there any FCC mandate that would keep them from doing that beginning Feb. 17th ? ?


The Digital Delay .... a PERFECT example of your representative Govt. at work ! !

They're working for "somebody".... Always ..
 
Azumanga wrote, "What kind of cable system do you have? I would think the big chains, such as Comcast, Time Warner and even Charter, would be ready."

Windjammer Communications bought assets from Time-Warner, including very small rural systems such as mine. I only wish that someone had played it straight with us lLAST YEAR, indicating that our system would not be 'safe' due to lack of upgrades over the decades, so we could have made other choices. I spoke to a lady in my Sunday School class today that recently dropped DishNetwork to save money, and her family is on our system. What a mess!
 
It appears that WCMH will switch off on the new date. WOSU will continue to broadcast analog until sometime in March. It appears that WSYX/WTTE owned by Sinclair will switch to digital on the old date. They are airing notices that they will switch on 02.17.09. IMO that the Sinclair owned stations doing a better job about the analog switch off, they will air local spots all this week. Unless they file for the new date by tonight (02.09.2009) WWHO no word, I guessing they are since their analog tower is broadcasting on the auction off part of the Television spectrum. No word about WSFJ.

I already knew about the WCPX LP flash cut. They will be the first one.


In general I wonder about any analog full power TV channel that broadcasting between 52 to 69 will be forced off. Since this is the auction off 700 Mhz band.
 
willcail said:
In general I wonder about any analog full power TV channel that broadcasting between 52 to 69 will be forced off. Since this is the auction off 700 Mhz band.
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Nothing about channels 52 to 69 has been posted here yet. I'm also curious weather the government will allow those channels to stay on after next week. Have any of those channels formally announced they they intend to keep the analog light on after the 17th?

Has anyone read a station may be forced to go dark because their new channel isn't ready for them on them to sign it on February 17th?

Have any companies decided to keep their analog on the air just to prevent a competing station from signing on their permanent digital signal?

Basically I'm asking if any stations taking advantage of the extension to screw with another station.
 
Here is the updated info for Columbus Ohio as of 09.10.09

WCMH, WSYX, WBNS, will switch off thier analog towers on June 12.

WOSU sometime in March. Maybe March 12th. March 12 is listed as one of the dates to switch off.

WSFJ no word

WTTE and WWHO the old date.

Does anyone know why Sinclair is turning off the analog broadcast of WTTE next week and not WSYX?

WCPX LP 48 later this year.
 
What about the licensed Philadelphia, PA full power TV stations, will they keep the analog signals on until 6/12 or not?
 
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