Lexington, KY - HDTV

hmmm...won't need DISH for CBS, then, if their power is enough to where I can get it here in Louisville. I can get WTVQ-DT a fair amount of the time but I think they are still at extremely low power. And they aren't HD (but WHAS-DT is).

And I'd be surprised to see WDKY (FOX) doing anything before year's end. Besides, FOX isn't HD anyway.

Thanks for the heads up!

Well, I have a horizontal stack of Radio Shack UHF-Only and they regularly at least pick up a weak signal from WCPO-9 out of Cincy but I do have a VHF-only in my attic (but it's pointed the wrong way right now) and that should be sufficient until I get it mounted on the roof.

Thanks for the heads-up goldenrod!

I saw the blurb on the WKYT "local edition" at noon on cable yesterday...

Rumor has it that WTVQ-DT-40 should be doing some HD by the end of the summer too...

So we'll have two choices in addition to PBS when they re-surface in September.

I'll let you know when I see anything on WKYT-DT-13.

Just rescanned my channels and noticed WTVQ-DT-40 is doing their newscast as I type in 1280x720p (16:9) format! Awesome! I wonder if standard ABC programming will now be passed through in HD?

It looks like the first opportunity to see will be SAT evening when 007 "Live and Let Die" airs... my fingers are crossed!

What's up with the wacky black sidebars though? Looks like they're trying to minimize the sidebars by cropping some content off the top and bottom. Why not just crop enough to make it true 16:9? Or just leave it 4:3. .... Complaints, complaints

HDC

what type of antenna and setup are you using for DX? I've never been able to get DT-55 out of Louisville yet...

Grrrrrr .... You must have something up your sleeve Or maybe a super directional antenna. For me, WDKY 56 pretty much obliterates any chance of getting 55 - same for all the Cincy stations too. I think they deliberately picked channels so that "out-of-market" digital stations would get obliterated by local analogs. 55 vs 56, 17 vs. 18, 35 vs 36 ....

HDC

http://www.dxfm.com/fmdx_main.htm reported that WKYT-DT was on the air testing briefly WED morning. So far nothing yet today...

Here's a screen capture of the announcement...

Arrrrrrrg ... they're toying with me ... CSI, CSI, CSI !!!!! ... Give me CSI

HDC

I hear ya... nothing but test patterns on and off this afternoon. I was seeing a 1080i signal on WKYT-DT at a 84-85 signal level on my HiPix (that's the highest signal level I've ever seen). WTVQ-DT has a signal level of 80-81 typically. I'm using a Radio Shack UHF-75 antenna at 7 miles away line-of-site to the towers... It was picking up the VHF-13 WKYT-DT flawlessly. I've been waiting since January for this moment... but I fly out-of-town for a week away tomorrow... bummer...

Sweet, finally a little more excitement in Lexington! Glad to see this. I don't have a set or reciever yet, but soon I hope to.

What do you think the chances are that the other stations will be ready as listed on titantv.com?

CBS 59 WKYT-DT Aug 15 2002
FOX 4 WDKY-DT Nov 1 2002
NBC 39 WLEX-DT Nov 1 2002
NBC 47 WAVE-DT Sep 1 2002
PAX 21 WUPX-DT Nov 1 2002
PBS 14 WKSO-DT Under Review
WB 19 WBKI-DT Nov 1 2002

-james

WKSO and WKLE should be up and running with a four channel multicast.

Has anyone seen anything from WKYT-DT lately. They were actually running a "live" feed for a few minutes last week. Nothing but darkness for days now ....

Let's light it up ... CSI, CSI, CSI !!!!!

HDC

titantv is currently showing a go-live date of Aug 15th... although they're still showing the initially assigned channel 59 instead of the re-assigned channel 13.

great to hear this. if all goes well i will be moving to georgetown in the next few months. although i will miss the hd broadcast here in atlanta.

cool! ...caught the end of the soap right before they cut back to non-HD content... this is great!

However, I'm concerned with the WKYT-DT logo being present all the time... maybe that's just in place for testing? If it stays, then burn-in won't take long to occur...

I also noticed that they're putting up gray bars on the left and right for non-HD content... ugly... WTVQ-DT is putting up black... much more pleasing to the eyes...

here's a screen grab from Becker tonight on CBS...

note that they've changed their "logo/bug" to be less obtrusive... but it's always still present... and it's really ugly seeing it on top of the CBS "logo/bug" at the same time...

grrr....I've a lock on WTVQ-DT but not a blip at all on WKYT-DT.

At last - 2 solid hours of actual primetime HD content in Central KY!

BTW, according to e-mail from the folks at WKYT they hope to be up for good now.

HDC

Pulled in WKYT-DT 13(108 Miles, az. 180) here at 7:03am, DTV Log #20. I like the Gray side bars for 4x3 upconverts on the HD subchannel!

I'm Seeing WTVQ-DT 40 a little this morning also, the 2 signals seem to be about equivilent this morning, although conditions aren't that great to S for me now, and I'm only getting up to a 38 Max reading from a F38310's internal receiver(DTC100) from either WTVQ/WKYT-DT. Not quite seeing WKLE-DT this morning however.

Enjoy CBS HD Central KY :-)

Arrrg two steps forward one step back!

Came home 8/13 to find WTVQDT 40-1 with no audio . Anyone else have trouble with 40-1 audio today?

HDC

Update: 9pm and outage continues - all other digital stations seem to be ok. What is weird is that the 5.1 light is lit on TVQ but all other stations show DD 2.0.

I am unable to tune in WKYTDT on my Toshiba set top box. Is WKYTDT on the air tonight? 8/13