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KTSM's new 6:30 PM show, EP Tonight: To paraphrase one of the segments, DUMBASS show. It looks like it was put together just before showtime.

I can understand Oralia Ortega not wanting to anchor the news with Grandpa Dan, but this made me lose all respect for her.

KTSM, you would have more viewers at 6:30 PM showing the Sham Wow infomercial over this junk.

Does anyone know if Telefutura is now in HD in El Paso? And if it's offered on Time Warner?

I ask because on the TWC site under channel lineup it shows it as being channel 887 but on the guide on my DVR it isn't there. There's a 886 and a 888. I chatted with customer service who had me reboot my DVR but it didn't appear.
Now they're sending a technician to fix the problem.

But I don't even know if there's a problem to fix, I was thinking it was an error and they don't actually have that channel.

Telefutura is certainly in HD over-the-air on channel 51 which re-maps to show as the original channel 65. I don't have cable or satellite.

First, our local discussion has not had a post in so long that an additional step was required just to reactivate it, so someone needs to post something.
This is in regards to analog channel 40 with call sign K40FW. I sometimes watch it with the sound turned down as it seems to be a Spanish all news station. Lately, I have been seeing a notice concerning August 23rd and channel 26. That is about all I can decipher based on my college Spanish from 35 years ago. So, I just checked K40FW on the FCC database and indeed they have a construction permit to move to channel 26 at 150 kW which would be a significant increase from the current 8.75 KW. The FCC does not specify if it is digital or analog but I believe the maximum for analog is 15 kW which would necessitate it being digital.
So, at last something interesting going on in the El Paso area. Check it out next Tuesday and those of you who can read Spanish better than myself might translate the message they are broadcasting between most breaks.

Yep, been a while, I was going to check out the forum this weekend, so you must have been reading my mind.

Have lots of complaints about channel 4 (cbs) lately. Pixilating and going of air. Also channel 7 (abc) with their always LOW signal strength.

CBS' TVGOS was off for awhile but has been back for about a week. Engineer said they got new equipment. Still no TVGOS 8 days for Fox.

Right now KFOX is showing The King of Queens in HD, and yesterday they showed Two and a Half Men in HD.

Today channel 40 did indeed move to 26. They are still analog but a much stronger signal out here in Montana Vista.

I got a reply from Guillermo Franco the General manager of Multimedios TV in Monterrey
saying that Multimedios TV is going to be on HD soon and maybe Milenio wil be a Sub channel
Does anyone know the FCC cut off date for their analog station
thanks


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Tenemos un canal analogico en Juarez, el 40 que pronto digitalizaremos. Ahi tendremos Milenio y Multimedios en HD.

Saludos!!


Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:44:44 +0000
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Multimedios TV in Monterrey? The FCC has nothing to do with them.

Multimediostv owns Stations in the USA FYI

Actually, that's not true; Multimedios owns no television stations in the US, but they do distribute their programming to American stations. K40FW El Paso, now on ch 26 (just filed for their license today), is licensed to BGM License, LLC, a local company owned by the Cabada family. So, Multimedios would only be responsible for Mexican stations, which are not subject to FCC authority.

However, if you're asking the cutoff date for analog LPTV stations in the US that air Multimedios programming, then it depends on whether the station is in-core (ch 2-36; 38-51) or out-of-core (ch 52-69). If the latter, and they haven't already done so, they have until tomorrow to submit a displacement application to move in-core. If they don't, their license will be canceled on 12/31/2011. And now, channel 51 is no longer available for assignment, due to a ruling at the request of the cellular and wireless industry.

All analog LPTV stations above channel 51 must cease broadcasting by 12/31/2011, whether or not a digital replacement is operational. For in-core stations, they have until 9/1/2015 to switch to digital. Your station is in-core, so it falls into the latter category.

Please everyone contact KINT Univision 26 and beg them to give full power to the HD channel there is no reason to repeat the same channels Telefutura in SD and LATV on both HD channel just have them on the Telefutura HD channel
But give Channel 26 Univision the full channel to see it in beautifull HD.

email the gm

Mira Quien Baila has a lot of compression artifacts

dcandelaria@entravision.com

Boy am I glad someone finally mentioned this!! These 2 channels have been at horrible bitrates for months possible more than a year. KINT is at 9.544 Mbps, and KTFN is at 9.133 Mbps. It seems really weird to me that these 2 channels are almost half the size of 1 ATSC channel, like they're trying to tell us something!! I seriously hope that doesn't happen though. Also I don't understand why there's a 65-2, it seems like a total waste of bandwidth to me.

Heres some more data from TSreaderlite:
26-2 video 3.76Mbps Resolution 720x480i
26-3 video 3.61Mbps Resolution 704x480i
nullbits 1.53Mbps
65-2 video 3.76mbps Resolution 720x480i
65-3 video 3.61mbps Resolution 704x480i

They could reduce the resolution of both subchannels, and decrease the bitrate of them somewhat, and give those bits back to the HD Channels.

do you know why do they have Telefutura SD?, they could just get rid of that and just have one LATV channel,

Canal 44 is on the air on HD 45-1 can everyone get it
this looks like it will be the best looking channel out there becasue they dont have anysubcarriers to keep the bit rate low

I just checked, and I can get it on some TVs and on other TVs it seems to pause, but I think that's because of the wind.

I think several of the stations in town have cabling problems that the wind affects. My OTA is in the attic and I still have these, audio and video cut out problems. 4 and 7 are the worst. I don't watch any of the Spanish stations.

Anyone having really bad pixilation problems on KDBC? I have it on OTA and Satellite.

During sporting events when there is a close up of fast action, yes, for a moment the picture blurs into pixilation but all other times the signal has been steady for me here in Montana Vista.

Thanks,

Right, mostly on live sporting events like football and Price is Right is worse now, Always has had a lot of pixilation and extremely loud audio.
Friend said same on TWC, so probably time to email station engineer and mention problem.

Yes, I have both OTA and Dish, it occurs on both. It's been like that for awhile, even on prime time shows. They also seem to miss inserting commercials, in that they frequently have 30 seconds of black screens during the commercial streams.

I e-mailed the KDBC/KTSM engineer yesterday about pixilation problems. Have the other problems you mentioned also. See if they fix it. I usually e-mail him when their TVGOS system goes out. He is not good about responding to my e-mails. See address jmartinez@ktsm.com Maybe if more of us e-mail him he will answer someone or get it fixed quicker. They all should spend more on system maintenance a get rid of all the worthless meteorologists who do nothing but compete with each other and never get the weather right. lol

Yeah, KDBC compression artifacts are becomin unbearable for me.. I tried to watch Sunday's game but there was too much pixelization.. I prefere 100x Azteca 20-1, they are going a good job there, most of the games are in HD, some in SD, the best thing is that they air most of the morning games and you aren't stuck on some blowouts.

Comparing the game last Sunday on Ch. 4 and Ch. 9.

Channel 9 comes on top by a long shot..

IDK what you talking about 45-1, it looks horrible, it's forced letterbox to 4:3 you can't expand it (I tried), I haven't seen anything on full screen yet...

Still appears nothing fixed at KDBC. No response from mr Martinez to the e-mail I sent. Maybe some one else can e-mail him and complain.

I just sent this e-mail to jmartinez@ktsm.com It is a shame that here in El Paso we had to watch the game with such poor picture quality. I guess we should have gone in person.

Hello:
For some time the members of Audio Video Science Forum have been discussing the poor picture quality on KDBC. It seems the worst during CBS shows as opposed to local content. I thought it had gotten a little bit better, but yesterday the picture quality during the Sunbowl was horrible. I get a very strong signal with my 4 bay outdoor UHF antenna and seldom see any variation on the signal quality, so the problem must be on your end.
When the local news on KTSM (which I use the channel 16 signal) showed highlights of the game it looked much better. I really hope there is a way to improve the picture quality on KDBC, especially during CBS shows.

Mr. B as you can see from my above posts I have also e-mailed engineer and station manager but have never received a reply and obviously they have not fixed the problem. I suppose they don't watch their own programing either. This is a problem on satellite and TWC and OTA. I did not watch either.

Hard to see who is in charge of KDBC anymore, try writing the station manager of KTSM since they provide "administrative" support for KDBC since the ownership change or ComCorp in Louisiana.

If fixing it requires money, doubt if they will do anything as this ownership group appears to have pretty shallow pockets. The ownership appears to be by Titan Broadcasting, "but operated by ComCorp under a shared service agreement". They outsource alot including most of its newsrooms or eliminating its news departments entirely.
For example, KDBC does the news for the Brownsville NBC affiliate. When i was down there last week, Amber Downing and Mark Mathis (KTSM) were doing the news/weather "in" Brownsville on Christmas Day.

I watched the Sunbowl also.. same old artifacts to death.. IDK, 4.2 looks better, at least it won't make you cry with so much pixels going on in the screen.

Then watched NFL late game KC Vs. Denver, also horrible, morning games I watched on Azteca as always, FOX and NBC games looked way better.

As a pure comparison, watch The Big Bang Theory on 4 then the syndicated on 14, the later looks much better.

It is a real shame too because most of the best prime time shows are on CBS. Maybe KTSM is deliberately messing with KDBC's signal trying to push viewers away from CBS and to KTSM NBC. Mr Marinez is the engineer for both stations. He used to answer e-mails but maybe has been directed not to. Maybe a call to the FCC is in order.