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KVOS Seattle (???)

IM42A said:
Can they get by with doing it with Morse code very rapidly, or inserting it in the vertical blanking interval?
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Im not sure what the rules are behind TV IDs... im pretty sure a visual would suffice but i dont think theres an inaudible methods like fm translators
 
There have been mutiple efforts over the years to make KVOS a "Seattle" station, for obvious financial benefits. When Barry Ackerley owned both KVOS and the Seattle Sonics, he leveraged basketball broadcasts to make sure he got cable carriage throughout the region. Back in 2009, the current owners (i believe) tried to move the COL and the tower down to a tall hill just north of Granite Falls, which would have gotten the signal as far south as Tacoma. The feds said no to that move.

The heyday for KVOS is way back in the rear-view mirror. It did its best when it could sell ads into the Vancouver market (they had an office and fulll time sales/production staff in Vancouver) as a US indy staiton- we are talking the 60s and the 70s. Once the Canadian government dropped the bomb on advertising write-offs most of that money quicky dried up. I love living up here, but there's no way that Bellingham can support a full power station with actual personnel by itself.

In the days of analog, you absolutely could get KVOS on north facing hills in the Seattle area. My aunt got it fine on her big antenna on the Renton Highlands. When I was a little kid living in the Edmonds bowl, I got my cartoons on Frisky Frolics on KVOS.
 
Weiserguy said:
Is it possible that KVOS is feeding cable headends with the Seattle COL but feeding the transmitter with the correct legal ID? I remember when I lived in Federal Way (back in the paleolithic era) that channel 12 was on my cable feed but too noisy for any useful OTA reception. It may be that once you get up to your own xmtr and have access to KVOS's OTA signal, you'll find they do ID correctly. Or not, but you can't truly know until you see their OTA legal ID.
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That picture is from OTA reception up on Tiger Mt. The antenna is at one end of the transmitter building at WTM-2. It's a cut 33 antenna mounted facing up so that we can receive a signal on our station on RF33. KVOS comes blasting in even though I took no special measures to receive it.
 


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