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[TV] WALB adds ABC affiliation to 10.2
- Thread starter bholt
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Wow, someone actually using the HDTV system for some useful programming.
I wonder if ABC is paying them or is this a freebe if they clear the ABC commercials. IIRC Fox or one of the big four wants some of their stations to pay them!!
Who provided ABC prior to this? What happened?
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Albany was served by WTVM (Columbus) and WSB on cable. WTXL in Tallahassee was the defacto affiliate but you could not pick it up over the air in Albany. WTVM came in clear over the air on good days. WTVM actually had a newsroom in Albany back in the 1990s. I would guess now Albany has all networks in their market now.
younglee981 said:
All of the networks? How is the reception of WCTV/WRBL for CBS? When they are low Vs I know it was good, but now with our "wonderful" HDTV system, I wonder how good the reception is.
OTA CBS would be WRBL to the north and WCTV (Thomasville/Tallahassee) to the south. WCTV purchased the former channel 44 from Valdosta, and programs it for the Albany market (different ads and syndication). WSWG's signal doesn't really get west of Moultrie, but is fed to all of the Albany DMA cable systems. With the addition of 10.2 and OTA overlap from Tallahassee, Columbus, and Dothan most viewers in Southwest Georgia should be able to get all four networks.
Since the switch to digital signals, my folks (who live in rural Worth County) have little reception with whatever antenna they have. On Dish, they only get NBC 10, FOX 31, CBS 44, and PBS 14.
Before the switch to digital, they could get WTVM, WRBL, WTLH, WFXL, WALB and WCTV (and other stations) fairly easily. Thankfully now they will be able to watch ABC shows...and my dad's favorite: NASCAR.
Before the switch to digital, they could get WTVM, WRBL, WTLH, WFXL, WALB and WCTV (and other stations) fairly easily. Thankfully now they will be able to watch ABC shows...and my dad's favorite: NASCAR.
yea before the DTV switch when i lived in albany i used to be able to pick up stations as far away as Greenville, SC and Huntsville, AL.
I remeber in the day, when the prime on WALB was NBC and on Sunday they used ABC for sports.
I used to get WABW-14 GPTV before digital TV came and it was great to see GPTV as they have good PBS shows than Tallahassee's PBS station WFSU-TV. Now I cant get it anymore since everything went to digital TV. Speaking of WALB-DT added ABC @ WTLH-DT FOX 49 is going to add another subchannel as well on 49.3 to be Me-TV. Coming Soon.
At my place near Lake Seminole I can pick up WABW and WALB just fine, but since the digital transition and new tower construction WFXL Fox 31 is nowhere to be seen. That seems strange since they are sharing a tower with WALB. Is WFXL directional?
Also, don't know why this has not been mentioned yet... ABC is in 4:3 SD on WALB 10-2, making it worthless competition to Dothan, Panama City and Tallahassee ABC affiliates which all have excellent HD signals in SW GA.
Also, don't know why this has not been mentioned yet... ABC is in 4:3 SD on WALB 10-2, making it worthless competition to Dothan, Panama City and Tallahassee ABC affiliates which all have excellent HD signals in SW GA.
WALB Apologizes for Derby Switching Error
WALB Apologizes for Derby Switching Error
Updated: May 07, 2011 10:02 PM EDT Saturday afternoon's broadcast of the Kentucky Derby on WALB was interrupted unintentionally by a commercial break. Before control room operators could correct the error (ROBOTS), the race ended. WALB Station Manager Jim Wilcox issued a statement apologizing to viewers for the error.
SOME ONE NEEDS COME CRISPIN TRAINING!
WALB Apologizes for Derby Switching Error
Updated: May 07, 2011 10:02 PM EDT Saturday afternoon's broadcast of the Kentucky Derby on WALB was interrupted unintentionally by a commercial break. Before control room operators could correct the error (ROBOTS), the race ended. WALB Station Manager Jim Wilcox issued a statement apologizing to viewers for the error.
SOME ONE NEEDS COME CRISPIN TRAINING!
Someone needs reassignment as well - perhaps unemployment. Apologies are appropriate, but not particularly useful in preventing similar problems in the future.
Witchlover said:
Welcome to the future! Was there any one in the “control or switching” room at the time? I would guess: NO! So who are going to fire: management? Having worked with various automation systems, I will speculate that the “automatic” commercial log generator either: “opened” a source and allowed the switcher to act on an “errant” tone, or there was a “hard” break that normally occurs at that time. Humans are handy when stuff happens.
You'll see mistakes today in very large markets that you would have never seen 25 years ago. Back then there was one signal to monitor and it was done on site. The master control operator was able to catch problems and fix them, hopefully, before they hit the air. Today, a station's master control may be in another city in a facility that is switching 10 or 15 stations. It's not about the best on-air presence, it's about saving money so the quarterly numbers will please the stockholders.
I suppose you are right, secondchoice. The impression I got was that the human was close at hand but slow to react because of some non-job-related distraction. Neil, I'm all over economies of scale, but when I see a mistake of such noticeable magnitude, the last thing I think of is how much money the station is saving by minimizing the human factor. I will say the station GM valiantly took the bullet and looked appropriately chagrined when he issued his on-air apology.
Stuff like this happens all the time, just not during the Kentucky Derby.
Why can't (won't) the stations just hit rewind and play the segment back from the cut off point when they do this? Yeah, it wouldn't be live... it might be delayed a minute... but I suspect it's already delayed 15-30 seconds, better to see it a minute late than not at all. I'd make the same argument for weather break-ins, why can't they hit pause on the network feed, tell me a tornado is 100 miles away, then go back to the show without missing anything?
Is my DVR more advanced than the WALB master control room?
Why can't (won't) the stations just hit rewind and play the segment back from the cut off point when they do this? Yeah, it wouldn't be live... it might be delayed a minute... but I suspect it's already delayed 15-30 seconds, better to see it a minute late than not at all. I'd make the same argument for weather break-ins, why can't they hit pause on the network feed, tell me a tornado is 100 miles away, then go back to the show without missing anything?
Is my DVR more advanced than the WALB master control room?
Are cable and satellite in the Albany DMA adding WALB-ABC as a 4:3 SD channel or is WALB providing them with an 1080 16:9 HD feed via fiber or other means?
Anyone have an idea why WSST or WSWG didn't pick up ABC for Albany? They had the bandwidth available to carry ABC OTA in HD and could have bumped their current programming to a SD sub channel if they wanted to keep the old channel alive.
Anyone have an idea why WSST or WSWG didn't pick up ABC for Albany? They had the bandwidth available to carry ABC OTA in HD and could have bumped their current programming to a SD sub channel if they wanted to keep the old channel alive.
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