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KABC-DT3 from weather to LiveWell-SD

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ajc_trw

KABC is now broadcasting LiveWell in SD on 7-3 in lieu of the weather thing they were doing.

I found out reading the Philadelphia TV board they were doing this on WPVI so I checked the cable box and saw the same thing here on FiOS.

According to http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php KABC switched 7.3 to an SD version of 7.2.

Now you know. :D At least from me. ;)
 
It's not just KABC-TV, but all ABC O&O's. KTRK cut it off sometime during the weekend (I was looking for AccuWeather on 13-3 on my Comcast DTA after midnight on Sunday, but it was gone.)
 
ercjncpr said:
Why? Contract expired?
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My guess is cable companies (I can only speak about Verizon) didn't convert LiveWell HD to SD so people with SD boxes couldn't watch LW but could watch the weather channel as it was broadcast in SD*. By replacing weather with LW you increase your cable viewership. :)

Though I don't get why they can put the main HD channel in SD but not this HD subchannel. :(

Oh well, it's just another channel I won't be watching. :p :-* ;)

*I'm guessing this works the same way with a direct fiber connect from the station to the head end.
 
Livewell HD is and has always been a worthless and an unnecessary bandwidth hog that needlessly takes away the PQ from KABC's main channel.

Accuweather on 7.3 was useful despite the fact Los Angeles rarely has what weather watchers would call interesting. The only weather patterns more dull and predictable and mundane than L.A. is Hawaii.

If ABC insists on keeping two HD streams on their O&Os, why not make the secondary sub a time shifted channel for their own programming and not Mexico: One Plate At A Time (a show that's on every PBS station in the area).
 
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