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saving money by signing off

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A friend told me KEYE 42 (former CBS O&O) Austin is going to be signing off the air nightly at midnight - 5am to save money on the electric bill of the transmitter. Since they are on channel 42, I don't know how much power they are running but I know these high UHF's have big electric bills. Also, do they feed their on air signal directly to the cable headends via fiber anyway. How many people will notice they aren't on the air to run infomercials at 3 am? My friend told me they had the ok to stay on the air in the event of severe weather. Times are tough in the affilate TV buisness these days and KEYE has been cutting out anyone who makes a decent amount of money for months.
 
Is this just the analog or the digital as well? I could see killing the analog with the digital transition so near...

- Trip
 
I guess both, I was told they have the ok to stay on the air in the event of overnight severe weather. I don't know what their normal programming is overnight or if they are going to continue to feed TV programming to the cable system. I'm sure they have fiber to Time Warner Austin and the satellite companies, some smaller systems might still get them OTA.
 
Midnight is an odd time for a CBS affiliate to be signing off, even if it's just killing the analog transmitter and leaving DTV and cable on the air. Maybe 12:37, after Ferguson?
 
Awaiting fred cantu to show up and answer questions in 3...2...1....
 
KAVU and KVCT in Victoria both sign off analog and digital every night at about 3am-5am.
 
Last Tuesday or Wednesday around 8 am, KTBU didn't sign on their full-power analog from Missouri City until sometime later in the morning/around noon but oddly their cable allocation was active with programming. (Don't have a digital set in the house.)
 
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