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No local weather on main cable tier

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ChiefEngineer

The Indy Channel was blown up months ago. Now Channel 8's useful weather station is gone.

Is this a cable company move and why?

13 is still "there" but during severe weather two nights ago it was useless. A postage stamp size radar while the 10:30 news ran in severe weather.

Next morning Chuck Lofton noted that Chris Wright had been up all night with the severe weather. Right. During the hail and warnings 13 was running crawls and no Chris Wright on either main channel or Sky Track.

Not a single live Chris Wright that I ever saw and I kept switching between the two to get updated weather.

Not that we have a National Weather Service doing anything..where do we go for weather?
 
Well, the only cable system I can report about is Comcast here in Kokomo. The status here is that 6News 24/7 (The Indy Channel) moved to digital a while back and is correctly mapped as 6-2 on Clear QAM digital cable. SkyTrak Weather Network is still on analog cable 17. And WISH-TV's Local Weather Station was recently added to Clear QAM digital cable on channel 103-4.

Where should we go for weather? Well, I still think SkyTrak Weather Network is fairly good, but perhaps not as focused as it once was. It might have been better if you caught them at 10 instead of 10:30. I think at 10 PM they always try to have a live weathercast, no matter what. And it seems like at least occasionally, they keep a semi-live weathercast rolling right up until the 11 PM news on WTHR 13.
 
Comcast is steadily migrating all channels from basic analog over to their digital service. I noticed a couple weeks ago that LWS and SkyTrack were gone. You can still get radar on the WeatherChannel during their local updates, though that's obviously not as good as continuous coverage.

I usually head over to wthr.com and use their live radar if I want to track a storm.
 
ChiefEngineer said:
The Indy Channel was blown up months ago. Now Channel 8's useful weather station is gone.
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My mom's in G-field and just lost LWS too. So she used the gov't coupon to pick up an HDTV converter. Plugged it into an old set of rabbit ears with her old Toshiba 13 inch in the kitchen, and has LWS plus full time radar with the WISH HD sub channels. One time cost of less than twenty bucks with the coupon.
 
LWS is no longer on an analog channel with Comcast here in Columbus. It is available on a digital channel (WISH TV HD 2) to all subscribers. You don't have to subscribe to the HD or digital packages to get it. All you need is basic cable and a TV that will find LWS.
 
We have trouble getting the digital in greenfield, although an antenna on my tower might help, we have basic cable.

Is comcast planning on placing all digital selections on cable?

My 40 inch has digital and analog bnut will only work on one or the other. I am considering the digital tuner and a set of rabbit ears. 12 miles from I465 8 and 13 are watchable. 6 is non existant. I could place an analog out into the tv video in and keep the tv on cable.

If comcast will have a digital basic I could just switch the tv to digital.

In re all the ads about digital....I appreciate all the tv ads warning me about the Feb 17 impending pregnancy but I really need to know how you get pregnant....

Maybe a My Man Mitch infomercial about the cable options rather than "the cable company will take care of you" which is teh current message. Comcast can answer almost no questions about digital other than you don't need to do anything.
 
ChiefEngineer said:
We have trouble getting the digital in greenfield, although an antenna on my tower might help, we have basic cable.
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Cable in G-field has always been worthless. Aren't you on Wood north of Main? I was shocked at how well rabbit ears worked with the DTVPal box on that portable in mom's kitchen. Despite a big forested area to the west, she has every Indy, plus Muncie and Bloomington. Signal strength in the 80s to low 90s. With the mast behind your house, you're more in the clear. I'd guess the most basic antenna on that mast with your digital set would pull in all Indy signals.

Off topic, - what's the latest on WSMJ?
 
I'm in Pendleton and have bunny ears picking up 4, 6, 8, 23, 40 & 59 with at least 75 strength...only the occasional glitch.
 
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