LATV, which is supposed to be on WUVN DT-4 has been down for at least a month now, anyone know if it's coming back? I'm not really enjoying a screen with "No signal." when I am in the mood for a music video, it gives me almost the same feeling of being denied as MTV does when I tune past them.
-
Get involved.
We want your input!
Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.
After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.
After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/
Thanks in advance and have fun!
RadioDiscussions Administrators
WUVN DT-4 down for weeks?
- Thread starter DJKraze
- Start date
DJKraze said:
Free TV, you get what you pay for.
Sorry about that, after rereading that, it appears to be more of an insult towards WUVN instead of a viewer comment and it was also meant to be more of a dig at MTV's nearly vacant music video programming philosophy.
I don't mean to get under anyone's skin by making these comments, but I've noticed that making comments here does tend to affect changes when a technical issue occurs. On the other hand if these boards aren't being monitored as closely as they seem to be, then there's a lot of coincidences. I wish I mentioned the problem with LATV sooner, because it seemed to be fixed within a day of mention.
Believe me, I don't mention these things to make life harder for the techs working at each station, I was one once too, and one of the things I appreciated was someone letting me know when something was wrong (as long as there wasn't some negative motive on their part), it was better than not knowing and having things get worse. This was also the same when I did I.T., even more so. I was usually pretty good at catching things before or when they happened, but you can't be on top of everything all the time and I'm sure everyone understands what that's like.
I don't mean to get under anyone's skin by making these comments, but I've noticed that making comments here does tend to affect changes when a technical issue occurs. On the other hand if these boards aren't being monitored as closely as they seem to be, then there's a lot of coincidences. I wish I mentioned the problem with LATV sooner, because it seemed to be fixed within a day of mention.
Believe me, I don't mention these things to make life harder for the techs working at each station, I was one once too, and one of the things I appreciated was someone letting me know when something was wrong (as long as there wasn't some negative motive on their part), it was better than not knowing and having things get worse. This was also the same when I did I.T., even more so. I was usually pretty good at catching things before or when they happened, but you can't be on top of everything all the time and I'm sure everyone understands what that's like.
Hi KDKraze,
You could'a called the station to find out what was going on...
WUVN - DT 1, 2, & 3 are Univision, Univision, and Telefutura signals. They are on many cable companies around the states of CT & MA. As pointed out: LATV is the fourth program stream. WUVN currently has only two dishes to work with that are located on top of 1 Constitution Plaza, a 20 story building.
Univision Networks embarked upon a project to upgrade their signal and processing through the birds. What was thought to take a day or so wound up taking almost 4 weeks. During those weeks of installation, calibrating, and trouble shooting Univision made its signals also available on its back-up (sun-outage) bird. Thus, the to-air signal for the Univision networks was most reliable that way. To get those signals the dish that was looking at LATV had to be temporarily moved while Univision was going through it's new set-up. Because LATV is both relatively new on the WUVN digital signal and LATV doesn't have cable carriage yet the impact was thought to be minimal.
Currently LATV is now on the fourth program stream with no anticipated interuptions in the future.
As far as the "free TV" comment goes: You may want to take a look at what's out there and compare it to a basic cable package. For the one time cost of an antenna (maybe $100), Rotator ($80), and some poles, etc. (maybe another $100), there is a whole world out there. I can get almost two dozen program streams at home. Toss in a couple of low power analog (yup, most are still around) it is an excellent value with excellent reliability.
You could'a called the station to find out what was going on...
WUVN - DT 1, 2, & 3 are Univision, Univision, and Telefutura signals. They are on many cable companies around the states of CT & MA. As pointed out: LATV is the fourth program stream. WUVN currently has only two dishes to work with that are located on top of 1 Constitution Plaza, a 20 story building.
Univision Networks embarked upon a project to upgrade their signal and processing through the birds. What was thought to take a day or so wound up taking almost 4 weeks. During those weeks of installation, calibrating, and trouble shooting Univision made its signals also available on its back-up (sun-outage) bird. Thus, the to-air signal for the Univision networks was most reliable that way. To get those signals the dish that was looking at LATV had to be temporarily moved while Univision was going through it's new set-up. Because LATV is both relatively new on the WUVN digital signal and LATV doesn't have cable carriage yet the impact was thought to be minimal.
Currently LATV is now on the fourth program stream with no anticipated interuptions in the future.
As far as the "free TV" comment goes: You may want to take a look at what's out there and compare it to a basic cable package. For the one time cost of an antenna (maybe $100), Rotator ($80), and some poles, etc. (maybe another $100), there is a whole world out there. I can get almost two dozen program streams at home. Toss in a couple of low power analog (yup, most are still around) it is an excellent value with excellent reliability.
- Status