TV skips, is still going strong high as channel 5!!

Look out for any analog or digtial signal and please do post it here!!:)

9-14-09

The E-skips is still going strong, and I manage to get Televisia network's icon on channel 4 somewhere in Mexico, and a new unknown station called TVT broadcasting in Spanish showing live ESPN NFL football on channel 2!!:D:cool:

9-14-09

The TV E-skips has faded out, just before 9:30 PM and so far I DXed XEWO-TV "TVT" out of southern part of Mexico.

Man, let's just hope it's flare up again tomorrow late afternoon!:)

9-14-09

Stupid KASA. I'm watching the Giants-Redskins game and they break HD in order to run a crawl of their translators (as if anybody really cares). (...) When are our local stations going to join the 21st century? :mad:

KOAT apparently has. When the Lobos started getting blown out, I tuned in NASCAR on KOAT and their weather alerts didn't cause the HD video to break. The race stayed in HD during their alerts to tell the hummers that there was a possibility of flooding in their area.

I need to pay attention to KOB when they have HD going and there is a need for a weather alert to see if they are still breaking HD or keeping HD. If they can do election tickers over HD video, they should be able to do weather alerts over HD video, IMHO.

lobosrul - FOX isn't sending out SD signals to their affiliates anymore as every path is HD now. Their new sat distribution system uses a receiver that outputs signals in HD and SD so if a station needs a SD stream, one has been reworked out of the HD channel the receiver is tuned to.

I just spoke with Stan Gill over at the CW and my50 tv. He says making the HD shows 5.1 DD is a top priority and he and the cheif engineer are working on it. He asked to wait until the end of October and then call him back if it wasn't done.

I just spoke with Stan Gill over at the CW and my50 tv. He says making the HD shows 5.1 DD is a top priority and he and the cheif engineer are working on it. He asked to wait until the end of October and then call him back if it wasn't done.

Then, they need to get the equipment in place so they can broadcast time-delayed (syndicated) material in HD.

John

I just spoke with Stan Gill over at the CW and my50 tv. He says making the HD shows 5.1 DD is a top priority and he and the cheif engineer are working on it. He asked to wait until the end of October and then call him back if it wasn't done.

They've been working on that for ages. I don't beleive it. Im tempted to just get the itunes season pass for Smallville and give KWBQ the big Frak You. Any bets on the amount of screw ups this season for CW?

I just spoke with Stan Gill over at the CW and my50 tv. He says making the HD shows 5.1 DD is a top priority and he and the cheif engineer are working on it. He asked to wait until the end of October and then call him back if it wasn't done.

or we can take up a collection, buy the stations, and do things right! ;) I find myself daydreaming that I was rich enough to own those two stations and run HD on the station whenever there is HD available (network, syndication, etc). you'd have preseason football in HD, network programming in HD, and whatever syndications they currently run would have the HD version aired if an HD version is fed from the syndicator.
I would even produce and air Lobo sports in HD when either of two stations gets the rights to a non-MTN./VS/CBS CSN broadcasted event.

I just spoke with Stan Gill over at the CW and my50 tv. He says making the HD shows 5.1 DD is a top priority and he and the cheif engineer are working on it. He asked to wait until the end of October and then call him back if it wasn't done.

I caught "90210" and "Melrose Place" last night and they were both 5.1 DD. Maybe they've finally done it. I am anxiously awaiting Friday of next week to see if "Smallville" is DD 5.1.

Minor update, about KFAC-LD on channel 39.1 "remapped to KTEL-DT 47.1" has changed the call letter to KRTN-LD on their EPG.

This tell me, that Retro TV network is going to be on the air soon....:)

That's the news!!:D

9-19-09

I found out that we will be getting a 2 new digital low power stations if they are approved by the FCC for you folks living in Chamita and Santa Fe areas!!

This new LD station, will be on channel 6 at 300 watts ERP.....

https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101334396&formid=346&fac_num=183409

This new LD station, will be on channel 32 at 15 KW, which that mean some of us have 50/50 of getting this new LD station here in Albuquerque metro areas!:D

https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101329649&formid=346&fac_num=182099

Anyway, still waiting for Retro TV Network to show up on KRTN-LD's channel 39.1 "Remapped to 47.1 KTEL-DT" I will try to find out what's holding it up for so long?

9-28-09

Sp I'm flipping around last night, late last night, and what do I see but that ABC overnight news is HD. How long has this been goin' on?

And what's up with KOB not airing Insider in HD? I mean the show's too tabloid, but still HD would be nice.

More news about Hearst owned stations, that's also own KOAT-DT here our Albuquerque TV's market.

They are trying to upgrade to local HD tv news, but the economics hard times got them in the hard way and now in 2009, they are refocusing getting back on local HD tv newscast!:)

Here's the link......:)

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/355442-Hearst_Rethinks_Production.php

10-1-09

I found out that we will be getting a 2 new digital low power stations if they are approved by the FCC for you folks living in Chamita and Santa Fe areas!!


what is the FCC procedure on these with regard to coverage maps. Does the FCC not post coverage maps until the application is accepted and an entry is set up in the TV Query area or is there a way now to see the coverage maps of these 2 stations right now while the app is pending?

Generation of the maps is actually a part of the TV Query part of the site as far as I know, so until it shows up there, it will not have a map.

- Trip

It's crude FCC's maps graphics, compared to TV fool's maps which is much better.....

Anyway here's the link!!:D

Ch. 6, covereges map

http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/FMTV-service-area?x=LD1334396.html

Ch. 32, covereges map

http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/FMTV-service-area?x=LD1329649.html

Hopes that's helps!!:)

10-3-09

This new LD station, will be on channel 32 at 15 KW, which that mean some of us have 50/50 of getting this new LD station here in Albuquerque metro areas!:D

https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101329649&formid=346&fac_num=182099


how do you arrive at that? Based on the links to two maps you posted, both stations would be lucky to be receivable in the majority of Santa Fe proper.

I can't see where there is anywhere near enough coverage to reach Albuquerque unless you get weird skip or something.

If only we had decent stations in town that would cover the Balloon Fiesta in HD.

sthscan,

The proposed channel 32 LD station signal paths, may depend on the signal bouncing off the mountains or a knife edges pattern and not only that 15 KW ERP will get out farther as well too.:)

I can't not believe it that I made my 1,000 posts on my thread!!!:D

WOW unreal!!!

Party on dude!!!:D

10-6-09

If only we had decent stations in town that would cover the Balloon Fiesta in HD.

I'd rather have them spend that several grand for a HD production truck rental to go to getting their studios ready to go HD for the local news.

Maybe what AIBF needs is to bring in VERSUS or ESPN or Travel Channel and let them cover a single mass ascension and bring in the HD guns to do it. KOB/KOAT can cover the other 3 mass ascensions in SD.

Minor news update, on K38IM-LP "3ABN, REL" has filed to the FCC again for displacement instead of digital flash cut on channel 38, now they want to move to channel 14.

Here's the link to the FCC's database website.....:)

https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101338044&formid=346&fac_num=40743

Man, can't believe this thread is so slow these day......

Where is everyone out here?:eek:

10-16-09

Has anyone else been having issues with VS HD on Comcast (channel 259)? For me, the 16X9 picture is compressed to 4X3 all the time and sometimes the picture will just freeze for a couple hours (but the audio comes through just fine).

Yep, VS is always messed up like that. I don't think I've ever seen the aspect correct. I suspect it's VS and not Comcast...as hard as that may be to believe. :)

Yep, VS is always messed up like that. I don't think I've ever seen the aspect correct. I suspect it's VS and not Comcast...as hard as that may be to believe. :)

Their AR is fine on Dish Network, which makes me suspect its Comcast. Now the quality of their broadcast on the other hand...

Their AR is fine on Dish Network, which makes me suspect its Comcast.

Which is odd since Comcast owns Versus.

Which is odd since Comcast owns Versus.

Heh, forgot about that. However that doesn't mean the local system isn't screwing it up.

Heh, forgot about that. However that doesn't mean the local system isn't screwing it up.

I think it's highly likely that it's being caused at the local level.

Man, can't believe this thread is so slow these day......

Where is everyone out here?:eek:

10-16-09

just saw Albuquerque is last yet again - this time in the Sprint Nextel Broadcast Auxiliary Service relocation project. Seems KNME and the Portales and Las Cruces public tv stations are the responsible ones. The article said Polly Anderson (KNME GM) was in charge of the filings for KNME and those stations and I wonder why Jim Gale is not the responsible contact since he probably knows much better than Polly what is going on and can interface with the lawyers or whatever to get the filings done right and on time instead of being behind in filings/planning.

the report:

http://www.2ghzrelocation.com/plugin/template/broadcast/12/1859


I was hoping the project would get done in our market because it might lead to HD local news quicker since the local stations can probably transmit HD field live shots over the new spectrum.

Very foolish, to be lazy in this Albuquerque's TV market IMHO!!!:(

We are not a small TV market, we are in top 44 in the country and not like El Paso which is in top 98 DMA thanks to KVIA-DT for starting their own first local HD news!!:mad:

10-20-09

Actually KTSM was first to have the local news in HD. Within a few days KVIA started to stretch to 16:9 with many negative reactions. It was about two months until KVIA had real local HD news.
If you think your thread is slow check out ours. I follow the Albuquerque thread as I used to live in Alamogordo and could get translators from both cities.

As soon as one of our stations goes HD for local news, the others will not have a choice but to follow. I wonder if they have an under the table agreement with each other?
JR

I don't think the pressure from HD local news is at all as strong as we here think it is.

What percentage of households have HDTV's, maybe 25%, and how many of those care about HD local news, maybe 25%, so maybe 8% of viewers care (WAG)?

There is a really big chunk of America out there that is not pre-occupied nor gives a flip about HDTV.

I don't think the pressure from HD local news is at all as strong as we here think it is.

What percentage of households have HDTV's, maybe 25%, and how many of those care about HD local news, maybe 25%, so maybe 8% of viewers care (WAG)?

There is a really big chunk of America out there that is not pre-occupied nor gives a flip about HDTV.

Yes, but they're probably not the ones that access this forum.

Did anyone else have problems watching "Smallville" tonight? It was so bad, I had to delete the recording because the video and audio was indistinguishable. I tried to call the station and no one answered the phone.

Other wanna want new to be LD new TV station, is coming to Santa Fe.......

https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101338230&formid=346&fac_num=183550

http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?state=NM&call=&arn=&city=Santa+Fe&chan=&cha2=69&serv=&type=0&facid=&list=0&dist=&dlat2=&mlat2=&slat2=&dlon2=&mlon2=&slon2=&size=9

He also filed too many channels, which mean channels hogging or not.:p

Other than that not much else going on here.......

10-23-09

U.S. numbers for sets capable of HDTV passed 50% almost 2 years ago. Just about the time manufacturers stopped producing CRT sets.

Did anyone else have problems watching "Smallville" tonight? It was so bad, I had to delete the recording because the video and audio was indistinguishable. I tried to call the station and no one answered the phone.

No problem on the Tivo for that one, but the week before...ugh.
JR

Did anyone else have problems watching "Smallville" tonight? It was so bad, I had to delete the recording because the video and audio was indistinguishable. I tried to call the station and no one answered the phone.

After reading your message I checked my DVR copy. After one minute, I determined it was garbage and deleted it.

I rescanned the RTV satellite distribution signal today and found that a new service "KRTN" was added and RTV programming was active on it. The top of the hour ID slate said KRTN-LD Albuquerque and also mentioned one other station but I was paying more attention to the Albuquerque text than I was the other station listed.

edit:

I caught the ID again today - the other station is "KRTN-TV, Durango, TX" but I think it really means Durango, CO and RTV needs to fix that.

After reading your message I checked my DVR copy. After one minute, I determined it was garbage and deleted it.

We must have a similar receiver. I have the Dish 722 but the people with cable seem to have been fine.

We must have a similar receiver. I have the Dish 722 but the people with cable seem to have been fine.

I have a Dish VIP722 also.

I have a Dish VIP722 also.

Maybe we should contact Dish and TheCW to let them know about this problem if it continues?

Maybe we should contact Dish and TheCW to let them know about this problem if it continues?

My past experience with the local CW station leads me to do nothing. Smallville is the only thing I record from them anymore--past incompetence means all the new shows on their network don't even get a chance with me. And current episodes of Smallville will be available on HDNET or BluRay sometime in the future.

My Tivo3 only watches ota, and it was good for the last Smallville. Can you put an ant. on your rx?
JR

My Tivo3 only watches ota, and it was good for the last Smallville. Can you put an ant. on your rx?
JR

Yes, an antenna is attached to my Dish 722 and that's the only way I view the HD programming. The shows on the satellite are not in HD.

The NBC Universal Sports Network used to be on Dish, but it looks as though they dropped it. It's not available OTA either as far as I can see. It has gobs of great Winter Olympics programming and I want to get it back. Any suggestions?

Friday's Smallville was screwed up for me also. I have Dish 622, I have it set to record extra on both sides, couldnt even get through the 5 minutes of two and a half men before smallville. kept looping various 5 second bits. I deleted it after watching it perfectly thanks to my wonderful Windows7 Media center. Release client even, I need to go upgrade to the retail version. Maybe pick up an Xbox to do media Center Extender routine now.

The NBC Universal Sports Network used to be on Dish, but it looks as though they dropped it. It's not available OTA either as far as I can see. It has gobs of great Winter Olympics programming and I want to get it back. Any suggestions?

A Ku-band dish that can be fixed (at least 3 feet, 3.5-4 foot better) and a receiver or PCI card capable of tuning DVB-S2.

BTW, I think it was DIRECTV, not DISH, that carried it temporarily.

Friday's Smallville was screwed up for me also. I have Dish 622, I have it set to record extra on both sides, couldnt even get through the 5 minutes of two and a half men before smallville. kept looping various 5 second bits. I deleted it after watching it perfectly thanks to my wonderful Windows7 Media center. Release client even, I need to go upgrade to the retail version. Maybe pick up an Xbox to do media Center Extender routine now.

So it seems to be Dish customers having trouble or at least the people that view it OTA. I also set it to record on Friday from Media Center. Anyone here know how I can get a DVR for cable that doesn't have a monthly service fee? It seems previous Sony's and Phillips model DVR's with hard drives are no longer being sold.

The only cable dvr I know of is Comcast's Scientific Atlanta. I believe it rents for about $10/month? Not outrageous.
JR

I went to watch fridays episode of Smallville tonight. Again it was choppy and only played the first 10 seconds or so of the recording. I checked out my recordings of Vampire Diaries and it to was choppy and only a few seconds played. I have a solid 100 signal strength.

I guess its time to call Dish and bitch some more. Sears at Coronado has the DTVPAL DVR. I might get that and say goodbye to dish totally at this rate.

I've had correspondence with TheCW and they say they're working with Dish to get these problems solved. But, we have experience in the past where TheCW can take a very long time to fix them.

They always seem to address things in the same timely manner. Soon. That iTunes subscription seems more tempting everyweek I have to sit at my desk to watch smallville on a 24inch screen versus a 65inch one and a lazyboy.

KOB has colorful wings! Starting with today's newscasts, they have added blue wings to compliment their blue visual tones. The weather graphics were even updated, leading me to wonder if this is another good step towards them having a HD newscast.

What's wrong with KASY-DT, not carrying the Lobos's men's basketbal game coverege?:(

I think, this station is totaly lost on everything.......

Had to settle for AM radio band freqs, as least we got a good 50 KW station here in this market.:)

11-3-09

What's wrong with KASY-DT, not carrying the Lobos's men's basketbal game coverege?:(



everything revolves around the Mtn., CBS CSN and VS. I bet either UNM wasn't able to get permission to produce/air the game locally or it just isn't worth plunking down thousands of dollars in production expenses for a game noone would watch because of the $%^& state-legislature mandated yearly blowout game.

Lobos almost put a hundy on the scoreboard and won by 30. Go get your cheap tacos.

p.s. listen to the Lobos on the internet. I do that instead of listening to AM radio because I listen to the game when it's not televised from a room that has a lot of rf so the
AM radio audio buzz/noise bothers me. Internet is clean and seems to have more fidelity, too.

Let's all email KOB's "Got Questions, Get Answers" and ask about HD newscasts. I bet if enough of us ask, they may actually answer the question on-air.

If there is a response, I"ll post it here so you don't have to watch KOB if that isn't your normal news station.

email them through the kob.com website.

sthscan,

Sounds like a great plans for sending informations, about KOB-DT's plans to add 1080i camera's studio and ENG news feeds!!:)

11-4-09

KKOB is the only channel for news I watch (except for Judge Judy time ;))

Oooooh... Judge Judy in HD! Four times the wrinkles!

Minor news update,

KAZQ-DT has added a new sub channel, and it's mostly church TV programing 32.3 or the real channel number 17.3.

The picture's quality is very poor to say at least.:p

BTW,

I got a E-mail from KRTN-LD, saying they are having some problems with their STL link for plans to add Retro TV Network but they hope get this problems fixed by next week or sooner the better.:)

That's the news!!

11-5-09

Minor news update,

KAZQ-DT has added a new sub channel, and it's mostly church TV programing 32.3 or the real channel number 17.3.

The picture's quality is very poor to say at least.:p

If the picture on SiliconDust is anything to go by, it looks like it's being fed off a computer in really poor quality. Good grief.

- Trip

KAZQ-DT has added a new sub channel, and it's mostly church TV programing 32.3 or the real channel number 17.3.

The picture's quality is very poor to say at least.:p

Probably the double whammy of being sourced by Glorystar and then bandwidth starved on terrestrial tv.

I'm amazed the religious and ethnic folks who want their free channels by satellite bad enough that they put up with blurry and poor video. Content over quality, I guess, but you can't argue with free once you buy the hardware.

KRTN - I can't wait for the rest of you to start enjoying it.

I went to watch fridays episode of Smallville tonight. Again it was choppy and only played the first 10 seconds or so of the recording. I checked out my recordings of Vampire Diaries and it to was choppy and only a few seconds played. I have a solid 100 signal strength.

I guess its time to call Dish and bitch some more. Sears at Coronado has the DTVPAL DVR. I might get that and say goodbye to dish totally at this rate.

My wife watched Vampire Diaries last night via OTA (HD Tivo), and there were several instances of severe pixilation, and at one point the screen went blue with some sort of error message.

I will have to see if it is still on the Tivo.

Brian

Yeah my wifes recording of Top Model, and Vampire diaries for this week is screwed up again. Neither my Dish 622 or 211 will even lock onto KWBQ. I called Dish this afternoon and their agent "Michelle" is investigating some stuff currently and she said she would call back in 15 minutes. Shes 15 minutes late. I will call them back soon. My tv's and PC tuners have no problems with 19 at all. Even the dish boxes show 100 signal strength before it says its lost.

Been having severe audio dropout issues with Kasa2 Fox via Dish 722--all through the world series, and some last night, I think, though I wasn't really paying attention.

Anyone else having issues with Fox/Dish?

I can't get a picture on our local CW 19.1 station on my Dish 722 either. This is the 3rd week in a row, so I deleted the recording for Smallville and remove the channel from my favorites list. I'm not putting up with their incompetence anymore.

Anyone else having issues with Fox/Dish?

i've had problems (well, maybe it's a good thing in retrospect) for WS Game 6. Top of the 9th inning and the few moments of postgame celebration were marked by frequent video glitches/audio dropouts and I was watching off KASA off-air (not from DISH). I haven't been able to get anyone to answer me if it was regional/national thing (i.e. FOX glitchy everywhere) or if it might have been just on KASA's end that night and got worse as the game ended.

i've had problems (well, maybe it's a good thing in retrospect) for WS Game 6. Top of the 9th inning and the few moments of postgame celebration were marked by frequent video glitches/audio dropouts and I was watching off KASA off-air (not from DISH). I haven't been able to get anyone to answer me if it was regional/national thing (i.e. FOX glitchy everywhere) or if it might have been just on KASA's end that night and got worse as the game ended.

My brother had some issues OTA in South Carolina, and my GF had a little trouble with Comcast in Albuquerque, so I think it was a Fox thing.

I can't get a picture on our local CW 19.1 station on my Dish 722 either. This is the 3rd week in a row, so I deleted the recording for Smallville and remove the channel from my favorites list. I'm not putting up with their incompetence anymore.

I'm still in contact with them as well about these problems but don't have much hope for a quick solution.:mad:

I spoke with Dish techsupport yesterday over the issue. They, Dish, are aware of problems with their equipment and CW. I was playing around on my end. I can watch CW live, but if I pause or try to play a recording it just stutters. Recordings are out of the question.

It seems this is a dish problem not so much a kwbq one. I will continue to record CW via Win7 Media Center. Perhaps pick up a used 360 at gamestop for 129 to use as an Extender.

Oh on CW's facebook page they talked about some issues they had this week, and suggested people rescan. That solved some of the reception problems with my Non-DVR VIP211 but not entirely. If you cant hold a signal for 19.1 try that too.

We can only hope..........


KOB has colorful wings! Starting with today's newscasts, they have added blue wings to compliment their blue visual tones. The weather graphics were even updated, leading me to wonder if this is another good step towards them having a HD newscast.

Those with Dish, do you get OTA guide info for KOB and KRQE? not getting that here in Carlsbad with KKOB (SD) and KBIM HD...

Those with Dish, do you get OTA guide info for KOB and KRQE? not getting that here in Carlsbad with KKOB (SD) and KBIM HD...

Yes, Albuquerque market.

Thanks... :) have to get with Tech Then...

Anyone else have severe audio problems during Glee on KASA (over the air) last night?

It was unwatchable... or unlistenable I guess.

The Mtn. is starting their HD slate of football games on Nov 14th. BYU/UNM is the first game in the schedule of HD telecasts.

If the Mtn. website continues to be right, Commiecast Albuquerque will not carry the HD version. The game will be in HD on DIRECTV in New Mexico.

The Mtn. is starting their HD slate of football games on Nov 14th. BYU/UNM is the first game in the schedule of HD telecasts.

If the Mtn. website continues to be right, Commiecast Albuquerque will not carry the HD version. The game will be in HD on DIRECTV in New Mexico.

I'd be all excited about that if it were Dish Network and the Lobos actually had a football team...:rolleyes:

Where's Rocky when you need him?

Well the Dish network problems with KWBQ persist. If you haven't already done so, call and get them to credit you your local channels for the month.

Well the Dish network problems with KWBQ persist. If you haven't already done so, call and get them to credit you your local channels for the month.

I don't hold much hope of them fixing it soon because each side blames the other. Then when you call Dish, they say they don't support the local channels OTA. KWBQ tells me that if I can get channel 50.1 then it's not their fault because they run both stations.

hmm. I called them through tech support as a DVR issue. I said I pay for HD locals but the local I watch the most is CW. Since I am paying for local channels and the one I watch I cant watch with their service I asked for a credit. They gave it to me. This does seem like another comcrap issue. I will continue to ask for a credit each month.

Although Im not under any contract with them. I might just turn them off and go buy a Tivo.