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Many LPTV licenses being canceled in the Leavenworth, Wenatchee area

SomeRadioGuy said:
There are places like near Elko and Ely, NV and Laramie, WY that have community translator associations that get along on volunteer help and meager donations for their translators relaying big city stations. No advertising
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The Translator groups in Ely and Eureka Counties are funded by a tax assessments. They are very well funded.
 
Frequency1 said:
Rebroadcasting the stations from Reno or Salt Lake City.
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So, local counties and I assume using local taxpayer dollars, are paying for an LPTV as a satellite of stations outside the area?
I guess as an LPTV owner, it's great income if you can get it. Eventually maybe some audit will uncover the waste and that/those stations will get their plug(s) pulled.
 
Ely NV has always had Salt Lake City TV via translators, and KVVU/KLAS as well from Vegas (at least in analog). SLC is 175 miles and I think Las Vegas is just as far. Remote as it gets.
Reminds me of Salmon and Challis ID. Super remote with very little FM reception outside of the local KSRA-FM and translators.
 
Just an update: Just did a rescan today, and KXLY/4 and KSPS/7 are back on the air in the Wenatchee area (in HD) along with MeTV, H&I, World, and Create
 
crainbebo said:
Ely NV has always had Salt Lake City TV via translators, and KVVU/KLAS as well from Vegas (at least in analog). SLC is 175 miles and I think Las Vegas is just as far. Remote as it gets.
Reminds me of Salmon and Challis ID. Super remote with very little FM reception outside of the local KSRA-FM and translators.
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How do translators in places that far away get the signal to retransmit? I know that the SLC stations have that daisy-chain network of translators, but would that extend into another state, and as far out as Ely? And AFAIK the Las Vegas stations don't have such a network. Seems that even under the most favorable conditions, direct OTA reception would be at best intermittent.

And I'm assuming that getting the signal from one of the local-into-local satellite providers would be out of the question. I have to doubt that any provider would agree to that.
 
Crazy thought, but it would add a touch of realism, to rebroadcast one or two German TV channels. Leavenworth is known for being a recreated German village.

But the visitors who would actually cotton to such a thing could be counted on one hand with fingers left over.
 
When Canada's StarChoice DBS was first launched (now called Shaw TV), the Spokane network MUX was offered as the West Coast US signal source - now its Seattle. Dish Network's local-into-local service could easily be a source now for satellite-based feeds from Spokane.
 
RF101 said:
When Canada's StarChoice DBS was first launched (now called Shaw TV), the Spokane network MUX was offered as the West Coast US signal source - now its Seattle. Dish Network's local-into-local service could easily be a source now for satellite-based feeds from Spokane.
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Yes, but does Dish Network do that for translator (or even cable) providers?

I am almost positive that the cable system (or it could have been an in-house MATV system) at a hotel in Beckley WV in 2019, when we stayed there, used either a Dish Network or DirecTV feed to provide WWCW-21 from Lynchburg as the CW station. Evidently for some reason they were unable to furnish WVVA's or WQCW's signal (they did carry WVVA's main NBC channel).

So far as I can see, there would be no technical obstacle to providing Spokane stations to the translators that way, but would Dish Network be willing to do it? On the one hand, each viewer could be seen as one less subscriber that they get, but on the other hand, nobody subscribes to local-into-local just to get local stations and nothing else. Perhaps they could cut a deal with the translator operator.
 
VrginX said:
Just an update: Just did a rescan today, and KXLY/4 and KSPS/7 are back on the air in the Wenatchee area (in HD) along with MeTV, H&I, World, and Create
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I have an old Dish Network DTVPal (it was a converter box they sold for analog TVs back in the late 2000s around the analog shutdown) and sadly it doesn’t have HDMI, but I was surprised to see they had brought back KXLY and KSPS, but sadly my converter box shows the wrong time when I’m watching any of those channels, and I managed to barely pick up 3ABN (too choppy to watch anything) and it shows the correct time. Also, program guide info doesn’t work but that’s okay. Also, the old channel that used to show the guide for KREM, KXLY, KHQ, KSPS, KAYU, and NCW Life (36.1 or something) is still active, but my converter box shows “NO SERVICE” when tuned to that channel, I wonder why they kept it up. I hope KREM, KHQ, and KAYU (Fox 28) back at some point.
 
It would probably be easier to provide translators of KIRO 7, KING 5 and Fox 13 Seattle. Most Wenatchee TV viewers (if they watch the networks) are viewing Seattle stations on cable...
 
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