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ChiefEngineer

What happened to it?

Comcast has no answer and the Channel (64) on Comcast says {NO SIGNAL}.

Fed from the Comcast Front end at Noblesville. I still like to use the replays of old news to see if I've missed anything through the day in 4 minutes.

Yes I know it's not updated regularly but it is a tool as it were.
 
Yeah, it's no longer on analog cable 64 here in Kokomo either. Disappeared around the beginning of July, unannounced. However - it's still available over the air on digital 6.2 AND on digital cable channel 420 here in Kokomo. Flip through the digital cable listings and you might just find it. It might be on channel 247 in some systems (it is now called "6 News 24/7" IIRC).

The good news is that they did add WFYI's subchannel 20.3 "WFYI | Plus" at the same time analog 64 went away. It's on digital 917 here in Kokomo.

What gets me is, WRTV couldn't even put something on their website to tell viewers where to find the channel on digital (cable or OTA)? Of course, they may not have known exactly when this would happen. But I would have been running on air promos. "Look for us on digital cable in July" at least.
 
It seems none of the commercial tv stations in Indy have figured out what to put on their side channels. WFYI seems to be the only operation that knows what it's doing. Of course they don't need to worry about selling time.
 
If I were WISH, I'd have WIIH (Univision) simulcasted on one of the subchannels.

6, 8, and 13 all have weather & news loops on their side channels, I believe (I'm not DTV ready yet, so I can't be sure :p). Not that much news in Indianapolis :)
 
Friend in evansville says KET has it together.

KET has their normal programming on .1 and then some Kentucky thing on .2. What is WFYI doing?

I have so little tv time I only scan the channels. No announcement about the Indy Channel going away. It just went away on comcast within the last few days.

Our package only has digital channels if you upgrade. I hope 8 deosn't disappear because it is useful msot of the time.

HD? Very much useless here. 12 miles from 465 and not all of the channels are there...
 
Appreciate the heads up that the fine folks at COMCAST have moved 6 NEWS 24/7...as program director at RTV 6, we had been told they were going to eventually move it to the digital tier but not told when.

Ironically, as a COMCAST subscriber, I was never told by my cable company about any program line-up changes.

6 NEWS 24/7 is still available on the digital tier and over the air on Digital channel 6.2.
 
And here's where we tell you that a LOT of the televisions work in either Analog OR Digital and not both. This must have been a good idea to someone.

My analog cable receives all my television programming. I can't pick 6 digital up in Greenfield without a large outside antenna. Pixels and pixels and dropout. I have tried 2 newer televisions with a name brand.

Since they receive 6 at the headend in Noblesville can't they leave an analog version on cable? Much better than {No signal}.
 
I've had a pretty favorable HD experience so far. Being 70 miles north of the Louisville TV transmitters, I aimed a 91 element yagi at them & get all except WHAS & KET with 100% reliability. I was seeing WHAS 100% until WCLJ DT went from their low power STA to a higher power DT signal adjacent to WHAS's 55 DT signal. KET sends about 15KW my way on DT 17 & even that is about 75% reliable. The UHF antenna gets enough of WISH DT off the back at 35 miles to give me a usable signal 100% of the time. That said, when the "band is open" and DX signals come in, the DT signals get trashed. It takes very little interference for a DT signal to go away. I anticipate that most of that will go away in February. I may be one of the few who looks forward to analog TV going away...
 
Now how many people will install a 91 element antenna?

Who makes it?

I don't have the option of a pole at 120 feet.
 
I totally agree that WISH should put WIIH on as a subchannel. Perhaps they could find room to place it on WNDY-DT? No subchannels on that one, and it doesn't seem to carry an awful lot of HD; surely one SD channel would fit.

Also, yes, we probably have too many local news and weather channels. I would like to see something like RTN (Retro Television Network) here. What if channel 6 carried it? They could offer RTN6 to go with RTV6? ;)
 
One guess on why its off the air - The Angotti's bought it

Oh snap!
 
ChiefEngineer said:
Now how many people will install a 91 element antenna?

Who makes it?

I don't have the option of a pole at 120 feet.
Click to expand...
http://www.antennasdirect.com/91XG_HDTV_Antenna.html . They make smaller models that perform well too. I believe it's $99 w/free shipping. While it's not the world's most rugged antenna, it is a superb performer. I heard of it from a DXer in Greensburg who has 4 of them stacked on a pole--overkill for my case.

You may not have a 110' option, but you don't miss it by much if I recall correctly. Actually, the 7' Channel Master dish at 55' performs just as well, but those are tough to find.
 
Hey techies, when it comes to over the air antennas and digital, I stick to Winegard.
I had a lot of installs (after my short but sweet b'cast career as a tech dud (not "dude" but "dud" cause I was a short timer...) and all I put in was Winegard. Check out www.summitsource.com (a company based out of FW) for their selection.
My fave for UHF only is the HD4400, and if you're a way out try the HD8800.
(they say these antennas are UHF only, but I've gotten VHF on them too.)
 
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