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HD channels in houston

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mrtejano

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Where did all these channels come from?? Before this HD TRANSITION channels like channel 10, 28,30,34,43, and others weren't around. Or were they??
 
I remember 10 being on analog. Came on in 2006 or 7. It used a call of K10PY, IIRC, and rebroadcasted 43 KHLM. It made the digital transition in October '09.

As for the others listed, yes they were all lower powered analogs that ended up in Houston, or nearby. If you pull a search on the calls for each station in Google, you should find the history for each of the stations you listed, Tejano. Far too much to type to list each one of their movements along the way here, lol.
 
Lol I meant in general, like I couldn't watch these channels before the transition. I'm assuming it's easier to broadcast Digital tv than Analog?
 
No, it's actually the opposite. Digital signals don't travel as far as the old over the air ones once did. Some of the stations you listed came from small towns around the area, and through a series of permitted moves, ended up in Houston. That's the main reason you can now receive them digitally, when you couldn't before with rabbit ears. MediaFrog was right before, now that I think about it more. The current channel 10 is not the same as the original channel 10 here in Houston. The original one (KUVM) is now ch. 34. I don't know, Tejano, there was a lot of movement going on during and before the digital transition. It was hard to keep up with it then, and even moreso now to reflect back.
 
I'm in the Dallas area, but I still remember back in '07 or '08, when I started preparing for the digital transition. I bought a Samsung DTV set-top box and while it worked, I quickly discovered my "dish clip-on" antenna wasn't going to cut it for digital TV. So I did some research, bought a Channel Master 4228 antenna, and put it in my attic. And yes, it improved digital TV reception immensely. But I also discovered a whole bunch of new "low-power" stations I'd never been able to receive before!

They were all analog at the time, but all except one have changed to digital by now, and most have many subchannels. (KNAV/22 is the lone analog hold-out.)
 
I just checked and KNAV/22 is indeed airing Hot TV.

Hot TV airs classic TV shows on several low-power channels in the DFW area. I don't know if it's available elsewhere in the country.
 
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