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yes, that would be interesting. Homeless pushing their shopping cart full of belongings past the studio window, a thief snatching purses or hot-wiring cars parked at the parking meter outside the studio window, or for the 10pm news, early plastered college-aged gals or guys staggering past the studio window to wherever for the rest of the night.

I think in the "reality" show Making News Texas Style, the station had their studios - or at least a satellite studio - in a shopping mall.


re:blgglare post re:kluz hd on DISH - if CW had the world cup (or actually anything in HD other than network programming - hint, hint, ACME) then CW would probably be in HD on DISH Network, too. DISH added a boatload of Univision HD locals just prior to the world cup, presumably so people could watch the univision world cup action in HD. It should be interesting to see if the move continues to be permanent or if DISH will get around to removing them now that the world cup is over.

yes, that would be interesting. Homeless pushing their shopping cart full of belongings past the studio window, a thief snatching purses or hot-wiring cars parked at the parking meter outside the studio window, or for the 10pm news, early plastered college-aged gals or guys staggering past the studio window to wherever for the rest of the night.

I think that's a great idea and a guaranteed ratings booster !
JR

Some of the locals in San Diego had their news rooms streetside like that. I thought it was neat that you could watch from the sidewalk.

Growing up in Wisconsin, each of the locals in Milwaukee would move their newscasts to the Statefair grounds during the fair each year. That was cool seeing the news filmed live outdoors each day.

KOB used to that until the last 5 or 10 years. It was the highlight of my fair visit to go watch the 6pm newscast in person.

KOAT (I think) also used to take the sat truck in a summer sweeps event and go around the state with one anchor delivering some stories out in the field and the other anchor delivering some stories from the main studio.

With the 2-3 cam production quality of a remote sat truck and the internet connectivity by satellite when in rural areas - great for delivering up-to-the-minute newscast scripts, I'm surprised local stations don't do more summer sweep stunts by going around the state to various places.

Thanks for the heads up. The signal is at about 75% here in the Jemez Mtns. Much better than their very snowy analog (about P2) signal on channel 30. Not that I need the new channel, living just 4 miles from the KCHF-DT channel 10 tower. Never watch it anyway.

So I'm watching Nikita over on KWBQ right now. The sound seems a little out of sync. Not sure if it's from watching it on pc while I'm recording it. Anyone else watching?

I haven't been able to get an OTA signal on KRQE for about a week now and I've called and left a message with the station. I've tried on two different tuners. Anyone else having problems with KRQE?

No problems here.

No problemo; check your antenna.
JR

If it was the antenna then you would think I wouldn't get any other station as well. Also, my antenna is omni-directional meaning I could turn it 180 degrees and still get at least some of the stations. In fact, I tried it when I first got it. There has been some change with the tower over the summer I suspect that makes the signal hard to get in Four Hills.

I am in the Four Hills area as well and have no trouble at all. Signal strength in the 90s.

Well then, who knows what it is? Time for a new antenna?

Don't forget to check you cabling from antenna to TV. That's the one thing most people neglect to inspect. Your antenna could be fine, but with some cable damage... And what about the arms on the antenna? Or the connections on the antenna itself?

Pre-amp possibly die?

It's only with KRQE though. I'll check the antenna outside today but wouldn't all the channels be affected?

If one of the arms on the antenna is bent/broken that could affect just 1 channel. Each arm picks up a different wavelength.

There are no arms, it looks like a breifcase or small suitcase. Picture attached.

It may be location, which is harder to pin down. You may have to walk it around while someone watches 13 for you.
JR

Yes, I could do that but it's been on the same location for 5 or 6 years. Nothing has changed on my end and I got 13.1 for all of those years. Now I don't get the station and other people are still getting the station near the same area as me and the station says they haven't changed anything either. Fortunately, I can still get it on Comcast cable channel 212.

KOB has set up a new webcam to allow you to look in on the progress of the new set construction. Apparently it updates about every 10 minutes and the set is scheduled to be unveiled Sept 26th after Sunday Night Football (and we can hope widescreen starts then, also).

http://www.kob.com/article/stories/s1741945.shtml

Poking around the interface, I found an image that seems to explain to me how the green screen is done. It looked like fabric attached to a wood frame, which would explain one way to get the color consistent enough to chromakey to (I thought they would just paint a wall green'ish, but I can see how there may be too many slightly different hues of green over the span of the wall for the chromakey to work well).

I assume the new set will be enabled for HD local news presentation.

not at first, but eventually according to someone who posted here a page or two back.

BTW, I think KOB is getting a new logo based on the on-air promo for the new set.

I'm also now having problems with 7 and 13. Do you think it could be a UHF/VHF issue. Didn't 7 and 13 both change to VHF? This antenna I think might be UHF only. I'm going to see if I can dig up the original antenna documentation to see for sure. If so, anyone have a recommendation for a good antenna? I'm in Four Hills so pretty close to the towers.

I saw that. Looks like a red circle with the 4 inside. And they said Sun would be the start.

Lujan, yes 7 & 13 are both VHF, while everyone else is on UHF.

KNMD 9-1 and KCHF 11-1 are also on VHF.

- Trip

I went to antennaweb.org and typed in my location (my full address) and got the attached results. Anyone in my area (Four Hills) with an antenna that's working and where did you get it?

The chief engineer at KNME, Jim Gale, tests antennas and stays current on the best ones. I'll drop him an email if you like for a recommendation.
JR

Thanks JR!