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Coming to Tucson soon:

COZI TV will be on KVOA broadcast channel 4.2 beginning January 1 - not sure if Cox has plans to add the station, and if so, when.

KUDF seems to be preparing to cutover their Azteca America programming to digital on channel 14. Not sure what subchannels the new owners plan to add, if at all, or if Cox plans to carry the local feed.

I asked KVOA abut 4.2 because TitanTV had it in the listing. Here is what they responded:

"4.2 will not be available until sometime during the first quarter of 2013. We have requested that Titan remove the listing until we notify them.



Best Regards,



Dave Kerrigan

Operations Manager"

Fox 11 has been cutting out and in too much today during the race... I checked the strength and it's showing full strength...hmm what's up with that?

What's been going on with KGUN 9? I can somewhat get OTA reception during the middle of the day using a RCA ANT1650R, but once the sun goes down I lose all reception. I'm just south of the base at Wilmot & I-10, so distance and LOS shouldn't be an issue.

The ads I found for the RCA ANT1650R don't say what channels it's intended to receive but it looks like a UHF antenna. Channel 9 is high VHF; the others on Mt. Bigelow are UHF. Obviously you get some reception with it but you could probably do better with rabbit ears.

Have you tried to receive KGUN's repeater on channel 16 from Tumamoc Hill? See if your TV lets you add individual channels manually. If you get it better than the primary you'll want to disable that one (KGUN on 9 from Bigelow) since they'll both claim to be 9.1. Most TVs will let you disable channels.

Since the amplifier is separate you might get better reception by removing it.

Just moved into a new house and I have poor reception inside. Holding the antenna outside I get the five major networks (ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, PBS). I need to have an outside antenna installed. Any suggestions for an installer?

I live in eastern Maricopa County between Mesa and Apache Junction, and have a clear shot at Tucson TV with a ChannelMaster 2018 antenna (high VHF and UHF) above my roof. RF Channel 9 comes in well, both on my Digital Stream converter box and a 22-inch HDTV. From this setup I get some 64 channels when I scan, both from South Mountain off the side and from the Tucson mountains. I get channels from Tucson that I've never seen before half as clearly as I get them on digital TV.

I have a Vizio 22-inch HDTV that sadly has no program guide capabilities, and I have a Digital Stream converter box with some amazing capabilities, plus an outstanding program guide.

I bought the TV and scanned for channels, and I see that KGUN 9 has replaced its Spanish channel called "Mexi" with Antenna TV, called "Classics, on 9.2.

Hey great, I'll fire up the converter box and see what time the Meat Head comes on in All In The Family, and when Captain Binghamton can be seen on McHale's Navy!

Everything was working just fine, except the converter box was listing the channel under its old name, "Mexi." It was listing the programs on 9.2 and 9.3 just fine.

Until I decided to rescan the box and see if I can update the name.

After repeated rescans, rescans with the antenna off and rescan again with it on, every Phoenix and Tucson channel I had any interest in was working just fine, except channel 9.

Reception was good, on 9.1 "ABC", 9.4 " ", and 9.5 " ", with no 9.2 or 9.3. 9.4 and 9.5 are carrying the programming of 9.2 and 9.3, respectively, no title and no guide.

I rescanned the TV, and it carries channel 9.1, 9.2, 9.3 as ABC, Classics and LWN.

Can anyone put a signal tracer on Channel 9's computer streams and tell me what they are doing that has cost me the use of my program guide on 9.4 and 9.5, and there is no 9.2 or 9.3??

Must be something they set when they switched networks on 9.2?

Thanks everyone.

Larry:
RabbitEars.Info has TSReader data for many stations including KGUN. It's from 11/24/2012 so it may be outdated if they made changes recently. Also, it does not include guide info (that would enlarge the data dumps and be outdated by the time the files are posted). However, anyone with a Windows-computer-based ATSC tuner compatible with TSReader (many are) can run the free version, TSReader Lite to get complete station data. Maybe a reader with that hardware who can get KGUN will answer you. I could have done it last month but I won't be there again for a year.

Broadcast (PSIP) guides are usually terrible. Have you tried TitanTV? You can set it up for multiple sources such as broadcast and cable from different cities and probably make a mashup of Phoenix and Tucson stations in one guide. The standard Tucson Broadcast Stations guide lists all 3 KGUN subchannels, ABC, ATV and LiveWell.