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WVII Bangor now running 7.3 and 7.4

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Maine-i-ac

For the past week, WVII has been running their 7.3 and 7.4 channels as well as 7.1 and 7.2. It's duplicate programming on both (ABC on 7.1 and 7.3; FOX on 7.2 and 7.4). My question is why? Is there a technical answer to this?

And while I have the soapbox, NewsCenter Plus on 2.2 has got to be a big waste of programming. The same 10 minutes over and over. By the time 7 p.m. rolls around the 7 a.m. news is quite stale. Sure wish they'd put on RTN or something entertaining.
 
Maine-i-ac said:
For the past week, WVII has been running their 7.3 and 7.4 channels as well as 7.1 and 7.2. It's duplicate programming on both (ABC on 7.1 and 7.3; FOX on 7.2 and 7.4). My question is why? Is there a technical answer to this?
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Testing to see if they can handle another subchannel? Maybe RTV or This TV? Although last I knew, WVII operated both Channel 7 and their Fox station on a shoestring budget, basically operating 2 stations on the budget of one.

They have no morning, midday or weekend news and they tape their late newscasts. But could handle a third subchannel because that channel would need none of that and could be bird fed (As CBS affiliate WABI does, they have the CW affiliate for the market and it's part of the CW Plus)
 
For the past week, WVII has been running their 7.3 and 7.4 channels as well as 7.1 and 7.2. It's duplicate programming on both (ABC on 7.1 and 7.3; FOX on 7.2 and 7.4). My question is why? Is there a technical answer to this?


Testing to see if they can handle another subchannel? Maybe RTV or This TV? Although last I knew, WVII operated both Channel 7 and their Fox station on a shoestring budget, basically operating 2 stations on the budget of one.

Maybe the PSIP got garbled and your receiver has "rememberized" the pids for both logical and virtual streams.
 
DTV-Chief said:
Maybe the PSIP got garbled and your receiver has "rememberized" the pids for both logical and virtual streams.
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Ummm...so are you saying my converter box has done a freak of nature thingamabob? Thank you for the technical answer, but I live in a end user world. :)
 
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