Little Rock, AR - HDTV - Page 409

I saw the crawler across the top of KTHV last night. They and/or Gannett are having yet ANOTHER pissing match with a satellite provider. This time DirecTV. No doubt demanding more money for their content. I wish those jackholes would quit with the money grubbing and quit fighting with satellite carriers. Either that or EVERY carrier of every kind should refuse to carry them until they grow up and stop crying over the amount of money they are getting. See how long they can go with greatly reduced income.

That is what we should be telling all of these greedy aholes, comcrap, dtv, dish.
after a few months we would be paying $20 a month for everything.

Same thing going on in my market with another Gannett channel, really pathetic! especially since even us OTA people have to watch the crawls suggesting people call their satellite provider(DirecTV this time, Dish a few months ago) and tell them to pony up more money

We need to call Gannett corporate offices and tell them we are establishing a market wide boycott of their TV, radio, and print products until they can quit being so damned greedy all of the time. We need to let them know we are fed up with their bickering and quarreling all the time with every television provider. They are almost as bad as Samsung, HTC, and Apple and all the others who sue each other constantly over "patent violations".

Yea, they need more money to pay Joey the Garden Cat's salary

isn't it 50 cents for each sub.
Are they wanting more and the sat people said no?
Why don't they say that to all the other big greedy bs companies like viacom.

They do say that with the big companies like Viacom. That's why we lost the Viacom channels for a while.
I dont know how much they get per sub for the locals, but the locals wanted more. I have no problem paying more, if they dont have a problem getting rid of the commercials.

Is it possible KTHV will actually show the Victorias Secret Fashion Show tomorrow night? My guide says they are. Will be a surprise if they do.

I'm pretty sure they aired it last year.

Hello all,
New member to the forum here and I have some questions about receiving local over-the-air HDTV. Currently, I have AT&T Uverse for TV service, but I'm tired of the picture pixelating on me. I live just north of the Arkansas river and in clear LOS of the broadcast antennas. I know I need HD "rabbit ears" and wanted to get some product recommendations from people who are receiving over-the-air HDTV. Any advise is appreciated.

Thanks,
Sean

Sean, if you have time, you might consider searching through the posts made to this thread. I know that I have mentioned a couple of different antennas, DaveNLR has mentioned a few, and a couple of other people have as well. In all the posts concerning antennas we have made, you might be able to find something you like and can use. I know there are a LOT of posts on here, LOL, but we have discussed this several times in the past. Might take a few tries, but I think you might find it worthwhile.

Welcome to the group!!

Hey, Sean, as luck would have it, might have found you one. On the right side near the top of this page, there is a link to a 2-bay antenna on Amazon that is like $22 and is eligible for Amazon Prime if you have it. (I have it and it is wonderful.) That one is similar to ones that Dave and the other guys talk about on here and it seems to have a lot of good reviews on it. Might give it a look.


http://www.amazon.com/Eagle-Aspen-Dtv2Buhf-Directv-Antenna/dp/B000GIT002%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJ7VMODKUTIUWFY2Q%26tag%3Davsforum00-pro-rc-li-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB000GIT002

For those who care, or not I guess, it looks like Dish has FINALLY gotten KETS in HD. KARZ and KASN are both listed as HD too. I haven't looked on KASN much to see if they are actually broadcasting any HD, but the weather on KARZ is in HD.

Wow, that took a long time.

Does Dish have the 3 KETS sub-channels?

dmatch

Dish doesn't carry any of the local station sub-channels.

Welcome to the group Sean. Lots of good antennas available, just depends how much multipath you have at your location as to which one you need.
If you can be a little more specific as to your location, that would help.

Since we all made it past the End of the World Mayan calendar, may I wish you all a
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all and may your reception and DX be super.

Hope everyone had as good a Christmas as possible.

I would appreciate some signal quality checks from you guys.

I've been all over my system since the Christmas night ice/snow storm, to no avail, trying to find what might be causing abnormally low signal quality on 7 (RF 22), 49 (RF 20), 42 (RF 44) and 16 (RF 30). The others I generally receive, 4 (RF 32), 2 (RF 7), 11 (RF 12) are as high as ever (80+ quality) while 7, 49, 42, and 16 are down 20-40 quality points.

Could all these channels possibly be at lower power since the storm?

I know most of you are much nearer to the transmitters and the signal quality might not change as much for you but I would appreciate any comments as to what you guys are seeing (relatively) on those channels. I still get them but barely get 49 now and it is breaking up.

Happy New Year,

dmatch

I haven't noticed any big differences over the past week, but here's what I'm showing on my Tivo in Benton at the moment (about 10:20 New Year's Eve-hard partier here )
KETS 2 (7)--91%
KARK 4 (32)--97%
KATV 7 (22)--100%
KTHV 11 (12)--90%
KLRT 16 (30)--97%
KASN 38 (39)--88%
KARZ 42 (44)--84%

Just heard that the parent company of KARK 4, is purchasing Fox 16 and CW 38 (KLRT/KASN) and are going to move the studios from the Clear Channel building to the downtown KARK location.
All I see this means is next time carriage is negotiated with cable/sat companies, we are gonna be stuck with a hell of a price hike, or the loss of 4 channels simultaneously.

This was all a part of that Newport Television sale which happened back in July. A good 20 stations went with new owners back on December 3. The majority of stations went to Nexstar (KARK 4's parent company). Others went to Sinclair & Cox. FCC approved a big chunk of stations in late October, while it didn't approve the sale of KLRT/KASN (which the licenses will be assigned to Nexstar's silent partner Mission Broadcasting) until December 10. All they'll waiting on is the consummation note. This will be the first time I've seen four full power TV stations in one roof. Talk about a consolidated quadopoly.
Edited by csworldwide1 - 1/3/13 at 8:41am

And the sale of 16 & 38 is now closed.

And the monopoly of local media is closer to being complete. Soon we will have no choices. At least it isn't Clear Channel anymore. I guess that is a plus. This just doesn't have a good feel to it.

Thanks for the numbers RockyF.

Due to your high readings I assumed that there was still something wrong with my setup due to the Christmas snow storm and not stations at low power. I finally got around to changing virtually every connection including the 75 Ohm balun at the antenna. Still same results. So I dropped my large combo antenna down it's mast from 15' to about 4' off the ground to investigate it closer (got tired of flailing around on a ladder). Low and behold, my readings on the problem channels went back up to near/where they were before. All is good now.

I get only 2 edge reception here (2 hills between me and the transmitters) and have many trees around so I do not get a direct signal. Apparently, the storm so completely re-arranged the RF environment (trees down/bent ) that RF diffraction/reflection from them no longer fed the hot spot that my antenna was in. Now I seem to be gathering signal from the bushes in front of my antenna. It is pointed right into a thicket. If I tilt the antenna up to the horizon (hilltop) my signals drop drastically. If I raise the antenna 2 feet they also drop considerably. This stuff can be so bizarre.

At least I can monkey with the antenna easier now but It sure looks strange, a big long antenna so close to the ground. I guess I'll see how long the good signals last.

Thanks again for the numbers.

dmatch

I built an htpc and wmc scans for channels but it can not find 49.
It finds a 20-2 but there is nothing there.
anyone know where this channel is or how to get it?
I tried manually adding 49-1 but there is nothing there.

Wow, how crappy is 16??? Can't even run weather graphics without taking the main feed down to 4x3 SD quality. What a bunch of amateurs.

Yea, that is why I am watching the game on KRBK

The actual physical channel is 20-2. It is supposed to remap to 49-1. Since they never can get their psip info complete, you may not be able to scan it in. I have never been able to on my TIVO.

Thanks dave.
Its pretty poor when these channels don't do a damn thing.
like I said I see a 20-2 but there is no listing and when I click view I get a nice black screen.
When I first started it up 16-1 and 25-1 showed a channel name but no guide listings.
took a day but 16-1 shows a guide listing now.

I have 2 49-1 channels on my tv just getting ota.
the first 49-1 has no guide listing and a poor pic and sound like a poor SD channel but a signal str of 98, the second 49-1 had a good pic and sound and a guide listing.
what is up with that.
Dave do you see a picture on 20-2 on your tivo?

overall they just do what they want, better than nothing I guess.

Anyone know why Fox 16 is televising syndicated shows on their HD channel in SD? At least that's what they're doing with The Big Bang Theory.