Jackson / Meridian, MS - HDTV - Page 6

You're closer to the broadcast towers than me, so you should have no problems. I live a few miles further out, across the causeway in BayPoint. I'm getting good enough signal strength on all available channels. I'll bet you can pick up most of the channels with an indoor, but I had better luck with installing a directional antenna in my attic. Very easy to install.

email response from dan@wlbt.net on 8/15/05

"The microwave has been delayed. We are ready when it gets here. It should be in the next two to three weeks."

Dan Modisett
Vice President and General Manager
WLBT-TV
715 South Jefferson St.
Jackson, MS 39201
601-948-3333

an email response from phil@wlbt.net on 8/15/2005

"Between 8/20 & 9/1 Hopefully"
Phil

email response from wfux fox station manager mikedunlop@jxntv.com about when going true HD

"We are hopeing to be up by November of this year." Mike

ok guys let's stop hopeing and git r done............ i need more hdtv content to watch and record.

my directv hd tivo receiver only shows REGULAR SCHEDULE in the guide data for WUFX-DT 35-1. zap2it does the guide info for directv. if you are having the same problem you can contact them through this email and maybe they will get it corrected soon for us.

feedback@zap2it.com

As of yesterday, they have no idea when they will add NBC, CBS, ESPN2 or others to their HD lineup. Come on TWC. Hop on into the 21st century.

Spoke to the LBT yesterday & they said something about their transmitter not being long enough?? Whatever. Anyway, they said they hope they would have it fixed within the next 2 weeks....then they told me they should have it up by Mid Sept. (which is 3 weeks). We will see....

you probably can pick up every channel with just some rabbit ears. When I lived in Jackson, I had a pair of $25 rabbit ears from Wal-Mart that I used to get every channel. I would try that first. Good Luck.

ABC is upgrading it's new york hi def equipment this week so no hi def until sunday night, I think. WAPT just finished installing all new satellite receiving equipment for ABC regular network and HD signals. The signal is delivered digital for both where as the regular ABC network was old analog receiving equipment that dated back to 1989 and was very noisy. You should notice a slightly improved main network signal now. The HD probably will be about the same but with all new equipment to receive it. I say this in case there are come problems Sunday night since it will be the first time we will actually air the new HD received equipment. Testing went well so it should be OK.
WLBT is no surprise and "their transmitter is not long enough" makes no sense. They just got sold and the new owners, from what I hear, will not be any better if not worse than liberty, the present owners when it comes to keeping up with new technologies. maybe they will prove me wrong and that will be OK.
Tom

TOM>........ No LLWS in HD?? man i was looking forward to watching the US kids kick some butt in HD.
i'm with sf thanks for the info and updates from a good solid source.

nbc has a few like nascar, Las Vegas, W&G, Leno would be nice to see finally in HD.
Letterman finally in HD next week on cbs.

just got electricity back early thursday morning, brandon area, tiniest inconvenience compared to all else going on. i know lots out there are having tremendous difficulties from katrina. God Bless everyone.

I see TWC added Universal HD (1780), but who gives a damn? When are we getting the "standard" HD/Digital channels? Thumbs up their asses, thumbs up their asses (my Office Space quote of the day).

yes, I specifically asked that we not run the crawl on HD monday night so we could have HD for the game. guess my ops werre alittle slow flipping the switch. it has been a little hectic around there. I try to look after our HD viewers when I can. I must say, even though I am not a Letterman fan, his show looks damn good in HD, that coming form the ABC afil. too!

The HD should be on Thursday night for the real MNF opening game. Enjoy.

hey tom,
is wapt dt back to full HD power after the storm?

I have a 70 on my ota signal now compared to a solid 90 before katrina came through.

i understand it probably is on my reception end but just trying to eliminate all possibilities. i've tried to tune in the ota outdoor antennea but can't get any where near back to the 90 signal i had before the storm came through.

Someone asked a couple weeks ago, but again does anyone know a good tv install guy that can reposition/put up an ota antennea on a chimney and redo some cabling.

the fsu-miami game was great in hd. and looking forward to the thursday night nfl mnf kickoff and other hd on wapt dt. espn2hd starts on directv sept 9th too.

Spoke to engineering at WLBT & here is what I found out:

- They say they are very close to start the test patterns we would see coming through our sets

- They are lining up the dish as we speak & the are beginning to test the links from the studio & the transmitter

- They say they will try to start doing some testing this weekend & on into next week...would not bet on it


Interesting Notes:
- They will have a dedicated weather channel (like the viper/WJTV & stormshield/WAPT channels you see with the other locals)

- On their High Def subchannel, all content will be upconverted to 1080i (i.e. the local news & other non HD programming will not have the black bars on either side)...it will be upconverted to widescreen (probably similar to what our local WB & Fox do).

They said it would probably be October until they are fully up & running...we will see about that

Anyone know what channel has been assigned to WLBT. I can't find it listed anywhere?

Also, anyone else get sound dropouts on WJTV?

Thanks,
Robert

Last time I spoke to WJTV they are still not at full power yet. That may be the reason for the dropouts.

Hopefully they will be at full power soon.

Fla-Tenn game saturday night on wjtv ota hd through a hr10-250 and getting annoying persistant audio dropouts. argh....
doing it through a mits 62 wd62725 tuner as well. if you taped it it sounds like verne lundquist has 2+ hourts of hiccups. others are reporting problems with various cbs stations across country, not all cbs but enought to show there are problems.

got these same type dropouts back in august with the PGA championship ota broadcast............. hmmm maybe it is verne???????? i would laugh but it suxxxxxs, irratating annoying for a national hd broadcast to be this way.

called into wlbt today 9/20. got the standard answer on when they will have hdtv up and broadcasting, duh, about another month ........

Let's all make our local press aware of the situation with Channel 3 ! This thread might be pointed to as a prime example of HOW NOT TO EFFECTIVELY HANDLE your public relations.

WLBT is a joke. What a bunch of idiots.

Enjoy.

I agree, I think it would be more productive if anyone out there knows who to contact maybe even going over LBT's head to a national level. I have been watching this thread for months and all LBT does is delay with one excuse after the other. Maybe start posting names and numbers and start calling them till they give the real reason why they don't want to do this.

we could get wlbt 3 on your side to look into it. LOL

next years nfl is a long long way away but we are missing out on the new fall hd from nbc and nascar hd too right now.

- FYI, WJTV is now at full power (as of this past Tuesday, the 20th). My signal strength was in the high 60's (low 70's) & now is in the 90's.
Also, spoke to them & they are aware of the whole audio dropout thing & are trying to fix their encoding...which is what is causing the dropouts.

- Emailed WLBT & here is the email & response I got from the General Manager (maybe we need to all bug the crap out of them)...blah...blah....

We were set to go on in August and were delayed by a microwave shipment. Then Katrina stopped some work and made us do some adjustment. We are testing now and should be on at any time.

Dan Modisett
Vice President and General Manager

----- Original Message -----
To: sally@wlbt.net ; dan@wlbt.net
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 8:51 AM
Subject: WLBT


Hey guys,
I am hoping you can shed some light on a subject many Jackson people feel we have been given the run around on.
For the past year we have been waiting in the Jackson area for WLBT to go digital/high definition.

Myself along with many other people anxiously waiting WLBT to begin broadcasting High Definition have called & have been told that it is very soon. This has been going on for quite some time. We realize there was a channel problem (going from 53 to channel 3...& not I believe it will be channel 9) in the beginning with the FEC (??).

Some of us have been told by WLBT was suppose to be up & running in August. Obviously, we realize the recent storm slowed things down. However, as recent as a few weeks ago, we were told that testing has begun.

With a good many of the new NBC fall shows being broadcast in HD along with Notre Dame football, Nascar & the Jay Leno Show, we feel we are missing out on this.

I guess I am trying to get a straight answer on when this will be up & running. We feel we have been given the run around & would like to know when exactly is the target date.

Can you guys let us know what exactly is going on?

We realize it is a very expensive investment & there is not much return, however all other local stations have been digital for quite some time.

Frustrated Jackson resident

Time warner Cable seems to be on everyones list too. Prime example being if you go to the Jackson Time Warner website and look at the "About Us/In the News" the last article was 07/08/2004. Dedicated to Innovation? - I Think NOT.