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Will This TV ever come to Central Texas?
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Huh?? I don't live in San Antone, but I caught KCWX via E-skip last year, using outdoor antenna, from south Florida. I saw This TV as well. No cable needed.
(I understand that KCWX has signal issues. Maybe you are in a fringe recetion area.)
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(I understand that KCWX has signal issues. Maybe you are in a fringe recetion area.)
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cd637299 said:
The station broadcast at around 23kW on a low-VHF channel from Fredericksburg, meaning that the signal fades once you get past San Antonio and Austin (per maps at FCC's site). And since it broadcasts on channel 5, it's prone to interference.
The station does have an application to increase its wattage to almost 83kw and add fill-ins in Austin and SA.
yragha said:
Ditto. However, it seems their choice of movies has gotten a little better of late. But on the other side, their streaming content looks to be below 480i/p content, so the picture has a lot of checkerboard look to it, especially in fast moving scenes. Me, I rarely watch the channel. May catch The Patty Duke Show early in the morn' on occasion.
KCWX is missing an opportunity to position itself as the Hill Country's Classic TV Superstation by dropping My Network in favor of Retro TV. They can still run ball games and informercials, but a lot of eyeballs would watch Retro & This and they could cross-promote the two services.
I guess they could still run the My schedule. They can have Ed Sullivan kick off the block with, "And now... Here's something the kids will reeeally enjoy..."
I guess they could still run the My schedule. They can have Ed Sullivan kick off the block with, "And now... Here's something the kids will reeeally enjoy..."
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fredcantu said:KCWX is missing an opportunity to position itself as the Hill Country's Classic TV Superstation by dropping My Network in favor of Retro TV. They can still run ball games and informercials, but a lot of eyeballs would watch Retro & This and they could cross-promote the two services.
I guess they could still run the My schedule. They can have Ed Sullivan kick off the block with, "And now... Here's something the kids will reeeally enjoy..."
They're not CW anymore??? Or is the CW on another sub now? What use are the K"CW"X calls otherwise?
A 24 hour Ed Sullivan channel wouldn't be a bad idea.....
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Zootopia3000 said:
Interestingly, "This" developed the same problem in DFW, but only after they moved from WFAA/8.3 to KDAF/33.3. I had assumed the drop in PQ had to do with the bandwidth KDAF allocated to the channel, which appears to be less than WFAA did (judging from RabbitEars.info). But KCWX only has one SD subchannel and it appears to have plenty of bandwidth (4 Mbps according to RabbitEars.info), which makes me wonder if the problem is with the feed that both KDAF and KCWX are using ???
JHBrandt said:I just had this vision of someone watching KCWX on a 7-inch screen held in one hand while holding a 7-foot antenna in the other
That comment reminded me of one of the most ridiculous sights I have ever seen: In the mid 80's Houston had a low power music video station on Channel 5, K05HU. The station had a van that was driven around to various publicity events. On top of the van was an absolutely gigantic low-band VHF yagi antenna. I think the antenna was actually several feet longer than the van. Needless to say, K05HU was a flop.
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captex said:
I'm not a techie, but I am sure it had to do with the fact that the ch 2 allocation was shoehorned in. There are/were 2's in Denton, Houston, Amarillo, Midland, and also Nuevo Laredo & Matamoros. Likely the transmitter site they had was all that the FCC could allow.
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Mediafrog+ said:
I remember that station. Before I moved to Houston in 1989, I lived in Los Angeles An L.A. station there picked up that Houston based music video channel feed for late night programming. The station was still alive when I got to Houston in 1989. I thinks it finally went defunct by the end of that year, or most definitely in 1990. I actually liked having a music channel to watch over the air, being I didn't have cable at that time(and now don't again).
Channel 5 -- KO5HU eventually became "Hit Video USA" and was picked up by a lot of stations overnight and in some far flung cable systems. But they couldn't fight MTV which signed exclusive contracts to be the only music video channel carried on most cable systems. I remember watching Channel 5 before it had any programming -- they were drawing the Channel 5 logo using what looked like a Commodore 64 based on the graphics -- broadcasting the computer program as they were drawing the logo. I watched Channel 5 all day during the summer of 1985.
Actually the Houston Channel 5 issue with MTV was that MTV had exclusive contracts with the record labels to be the only channel to show certain videos for 180 days.
that was what the lawsuit was about.
that was what the lawsuit was about.
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