Charleston, WV - HDTV - Page 124

I finally got fed up with the lack of additional HD channels from Suddenlink. I will be ordering DirectTV soon. Can someone provide me with instructions on how to go about getting the best prices from DirectTV?

I have 4 HD TVs and I want 2 of the boxes to be DVRs. Anyone know roughly how much this will cost me a month?

Thanks for any input!!

In mid-February, Suddenlink is planning to add several HD channels to its current HD lineup in your area. The new HD channels should include Discovery HD, Disney HD, TLC HD and FX HD. More are expected later this year and/or next.

Across the company's largest cable systems -- which includes your area -- Suddenlink is deploying technology that will soon give it the capability for approx. 200 HD channels, part of a larger, in-progress investment plan of more than $300M.

And yes, I'm with Suddenlink.

Thanks for the update Pabel. I look forward to getting new HD channels, and really like that the capability for approximately 200 channels is coming.

Great, I hope SyFy is in the list, but the down side, I guess our bill is going up.

My bill went up $4.00 effective this month.

I live in Barboursville and in June, the understand was they were moving their tower so the HD signal would hit the tri-state area. Does anyone know they have move it or if they are going to

Too little too late. I dropped Suddenlink when D* pickup the local HD stations. Don't miss it and never will. Missed the $4.00 price increase too. I travel all over the East coast and Suddenlink must be pooriest excuse for a cable system that I see anywhere.

Today I lost 29.1 thru 29.4 and gained 55.1 thru 55.3. Did ion move and i lost the worship i think. I live in Huntington and get full signal on everything except 25 and 33

Charleston Suddenlink....Superbowl broadcast CBS channel 13 in 2.1 not 5.1 here. Anybody else?

WOWK-CBS does not broadcast in 5.1.

Yeh.. Pretty much sucked... Any idea when the equipment gets upgraded?

The new HD channels are up on Suddenlink. I have wanted Discovery HD for a long time. It's a channel that needs to be HD, thanks Suddenlink!

Is WOWK HD not transmitting Network HD Programs any longer ?
I am not a regular Major Network Programming Viewer, so don't know how long that this may have been occurring, but tonight 2-24-10 the David Letterman and Craig Fergerson Shows are not in Wide Screen, Crystal Clear HD, which I have gotten spoiled watching HD for a few years from several sources. Off-Air and DirecTV are each seeing this same issue exclusive to WOWK, as other Local Stations are still providing the nice HD programming, and WSAZ HD Winter Olympics Looks amazing! So has anybody seen this WOWK issue? Sad enough that WOWK has never, and maybe just will not ever provide 5.1 Audio, but now not even provide Network HD Programming on their Digital Transmission either?

Thanks for any feedback.

I didn't watch late nite shows but CSI NY earlier in the evening was in HD. When WOWK runs their crawler messages they turn-off the HD transmission and sometimes forget to turn it back on after the crawler finishes. I've had to call the station and wake them up to turn HD back on. They are absolutely the worst station for HD in the valley and it is too bad that they have many of the top network shows because they are affiliated with CBS. Bill Galloway is the station engineer if you need a name.

Anyone else having problems (audio, USA particularly) with Suddenlink's HD on Demand?

Since we don't have USA or SyFy in HD I have been watching their original shows on Demand, so far SyFy has no problems, but since the shows added from 2 weeks ago the USA HD on Demand causes my Speakers to pop everytime I start it or when it ends and anytime I pause fast forward or rewind. Its so loud I think it might break the speakers it actually caused my reciever to turn itself off. The popping is very loud at low volumes to. The sound wasn't right either it was much lower than it used to be.

This was a problem (may still be) on the Discovery Channal section on 996 as well but I just Stopped using that, but I only think it did it when using a reciever the TV speakers were fine.

Kudos to WSAZ. I noticed this week that they are showing some of the syndicated shows in HD (Jeopardy for sure and my wife says Oprah as well).

WSAZ also finally got 5.1 working again yesterday after 9 months in stereo. How quickly they go from trailing behind to being the market leader for HD. Now I can go back to just hating on WOWK.

From what I can tell, this is the forum closest to my Greenup County KY area. I just got my first HDTV (late to the party, I know) so 'yay', but it seems to be causing me some problems so 'boo'.
I am 26 miles from WSAZ, 26½ miles from WOWK, and 43 miles from WVAH (no WCHS?).
I am at an elevation of 700 feet.
I have an indoor TERK antennae which only gets me WSAZ and WKAS.
Is there a recommended OTA HD antennae that will do better by me?

I do have DirecTv on my SD sets (which are all Tivo'd), but it's sitting at $150 a month now and I can't bring myself to go any higher. I have considered getting rid of my premium channels to pay for the HD, and doing Amazon on Demand for movies, or calling cable and seeing what they can do for me on a bundle. But Armstrong Cable limits you to three TV's? Yikes.
It's all very confusing, especially since I am trying to cut costs as well as get at least local channel HD.

Just wondering what other folks in this region are doing. I do not really want a large antennae on top of my house, but if it could be on the back (which thankfully faces ESE) I would do it.
Thanks for any thoughts.

First thing is to go to tvfool.com. Use the "start maps" option to eventually drop the receive point marker over your location (you can zoom in and drag the pointer on the map.) Adjust the antenna height to what you think you will use, then click on the "make radar plot" button to get the results. Post the URL it says to use here and we can check out your situation in detail.

I can guarantee that you will need at least an attic installation if not an outdoor antenna.

Did anyone else thing WOWK looked terrible yesterday during the WVU game? Almost like they had compression cranked way up. I have DirecTV.

Thank you so much for the help.
Here is the resulting link.
I would be thrilled to be able to receive the green and yellow stations.


I was afraid of that

Since WOWK is transmitting on ch. 13, you need a high-VHF/UHF antenna. Two models that should work are a Winegard HD7695P or an AntennaCraft HBU-33. Aim it at 91 degrees mounted at least 10 feet above ground (that's what you ran on your report - higher would be better). If you have problems with dropouts, then get a preamp to overcome cable loss. Good luck!

BTW, WCHS transmits from the same location as WVAH.

I have a DB-8 antenna. I lost Channel 3 but still get channel 8 and all the other Huntington stations. I put up another antenna and got channel 3 back. So here's the question, why did I loose 3?

Can anyone receive WQCW-17 (30-1)? Could someone tell me what's on 30-2?

- Trip

30.2 is the same as 30.1 except full screen.

Today, I was scanning a new HD tv and qcw was one of the channels that came up. Here in barboursville, I had great signal. The tower must be on. I got 30-1 and 30-2

Received a flyer from Suddenlink saying they will be adding 26 new HD channels in June. This includes the four they added in february. They also say that to receive channels above 22 customers will need a digital adapter if their sets do not have a QAM tuner. This will free up a lot of bandwidth since 8 SD or 2 HD channels can occupy the same space as 1 analog channel without compression. This seems to be the same approach that Comcast is taking, hopefully the picture quality will not suffer. The newe additions will satisfy a wide audience and include the following:
WQCW HD
Lifetime HD
CNN HD
CNBC HD
MSNBC HD
Fox News Channel HD
Travel Channel HD
USA HD
Cartoon Network HD
Nickelodeon HD
Animal Planet HD
CMT HD
VH1 HD
MTV HD
Spike HD
Syfy HD
Comedy Central HD
ABC Family HD
Bravo HD
AMC HD
Universal HD
MGM HD
I am looking forward to seeing these channels, thank you Suddenlink!

Rumor has it that WQCW may have moved to their new 1000 kW signal near Huntington. Can anyone confirm one way or another? Are people in Charleston getting it now?

- Trip

they have done something. I am now getting a 100% signal from WQCW. previously my best was 40-50%.

I am now also getting WQCW which I couldn't get before last weekend, but a side effect is that I can no longer get a signal lock from WCHS (which was previously 60-70% signal). All my other channels are fine. Is anyone experiencing this?

Thanks,
-Brad