Goodbye Analog Television

[kd8hho]

Surpisingly nothing changed on Comcast except WIPB is no longer on the cable lineup which stinks. Most of the time they air any good PBS programs that the indy affiliate doesn't.

I noticed that WIPB was added to the "Locals" on Dish Network a few months ago.

we have dish here (in anderson) get WFYI and the bloomington pbs out of IU i think it is

 

[ten_four]

WIPB is available on Comcast's digital starter package, but they've disappeared from the regular cable service.

 

[jegrant]

I'll note that at least here in Kokomo, WIPB is still in fact carried on channel 21, except now it's in digital format. 21-1 remaps to 49-1, and contains WIPB-HD. Unfortunately, WIPB Create (49.2) is not carried. However we get Create several hours each day from WFYI 20.3, so it's not a great loss.
There is also an SD version of WIPB on Comcast, but they keep moving it around. The SD version is mapped to 21 on cable boxes.

 

[ChiefEngineer]

WIPB is available on Comcast's digital starter package, but they've disappeared from the regular cable service.

WIPB's Grade A goes to S of Shelbyville and Comcast doesn't carry them anymore. Much better than WFYI because they carry the PBS schedule unencumbered by time shift etc.

Comcast doesn't consider them the primary station for Muncie. Thye aren't even placing them on Deleware County systems except in Muncie. I hope Ball State sues them to return them to the cable systems they dumped them from.

 

[KyDXIn]

WAZE's low-power satellites are still on the air in analog.

Roberts Broadcasting thought they had a deal to begin constructing a digital site near the beginning of the year, but they I believe failed to close on tower land. That's why there is no WAZE-DT signal now.

None of the Evansville television stations are capable of producing an HD broadcast, but they are perfectly capable of digital - with the exception of WAZE. I don't expect to see any HD programming originating in Evansville for some years.

In larger markets like Indy, local HD broadcasts only began at WISH and WRTV last summer and were did not complete their equipment upgrades until the fall. I don't think WXIN has switched to HD yet.

To my knowledge, here in Louisville WAVE is the only station broadcasting local HD programming.

 

[MikeStandardsFromIndiana]

WXIN is still broadcasting its News in Standard Def out of the 4 local news operations in Indy

 

[BobOnTheJob]

WXIN is still broadcasting its News in Standard Def out of the 4 local news operations in Indy

But to their credit, it is the best looking standard def I've seen. Fox 41 in Louisville looks like a camera pointed at an analog TV set...WXIN could almost be mistaken for hi-def. Based on that, if/when they do upgrade to local hi-def, it oughta look mighty fine.