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Houston's channel 28 back on...but 34 is off

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Mediafrog+

Discovered at a check this morning that KHMV/28 is back on the air with apparent transmitter test; video is text ID over grey background. Dead air on the aural carrier. Haven't seen this station on the air in two or three years; it used to be a simulcast of KAZH/57 (57 used to transmit from a stick in Alvin; 28 filled in some inner-city coverage and continued on for a while when 57 moved to the MC tower farm.) Signal strength the same as in the past at my Cy-Fair location.

Wonder if this is just a token reactivation to keep the license going, or is actual programming about to appear? It might turn out to (again) be a simulcast of 57, but who knows?

At the same time KUVM/34 is off the air. Haven't heard anything about a digital cutover for them; they do have a CP for digital on channel 40. Particularly interesting in light of the possibility of Una Vez Mas acquiring KNWS.

On a side note, still haven't seen any sign of life for KCVH/30. Going to new ownership, and relaunching with religious programming, but I haven't seen anything from this station since color bar tests some time ago.
 
K10PY has dropped TV Informa as of last week, to the best of my knowledge. I am unable to pick up 43 and it's subchannels where I am at, but checked the analog on an old set and couldn't pick up 28 or 34 on it. K10PY is now running Azteca America and ID'ing as KUVM/34. No mention of Freeport's K10PY at all in the ID. I was wondering what was going on with that.

Have you noticed 57 has added a .3?
 
purpledevil said:
K10PY has dropped TV Informa as of last week, to the best of my knowledge. I am unable to pick up 43 and it's subchannels where I am at, but checked the analog on an old set and couldn't pick up 28 or 34 on it. K10PY is now running Azteca America and ID'ing as KUVM/34. No mention of Freeport's K10PY at all in the ID. I was wondering what was going on with that.
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Interesting. That may explain where the OTA KUVM went. I can't get a usable signal from any of the digital LPTV's at my location (my regular sets are on cable, I just have an old analog portable with a converter box to check OTA with a simple antenna.)
 
purpledevil said:
K10PY has dropped TV Informa as of last week, to the best of my knowledge. I am unable to pick up 43 and it's subchannels where I am at, but checked the analog on an old set and couldn't pick up 28 or 34 on it. K10PY is now running Azteca America and ID'ing as KUVM/34. No mention of Freeport's K10PY at all in the ID. I was wondering what was going on with that.

Have you noticed 57 has added a .3?
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KHLM/43 is still showing Informa, as well as the rest of the subchannels.
 
I wonder if they've bought the Freeport translator from KHLM? Checked it again at TOH and is still ID'ing KUVM-34-Houston. No mention of K10PY. Interesting. 57.3 is now Vietnamese, I think. Channel is BYN, but I have yet to figure out what the BYN stands for.
 
I think we can safely assume KUVM analog is now gone for good...still nothing on Channel 34.

KHMV/28 remains on the air with that same text ID over grey background. I've mused over the scenario of a transmitter remote accidentally being tripped, and the owner doesn't know that it is on...? Probably not the case, but you would think that some sort of different test signal or actual programming would appear.
 
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