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post #1771 of 2099
12/29/10 at 7:16pm
• KFTV (Uni) in DMA 55 (Fresno-Visalia, CA) added to Noticias HD [Alta Definición] en Español.
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post #1772 of 2099
12/29/10 at 8:45pm
Add CIII - Global Toronto to the list - I'm guessing they went HD when CHAN - Global BC did. Also CHAN is in Vancouver, not Montreal...

J
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post #1773 of 2099
12/30/10 at 10:53am
In Canada —
• Added CIII (Global) in Canada's DMA #1 (Toronto, ON)
• Moved CHAN (Global) from Montreal to Vancouver
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post #1774 of 2099
1/5/11 at 6:20am
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WSYR-TV is pleased to announce plans to become the first station in Central New York to deliver local programming in High Definition. This reinforces our commitment to bring viewers the highest quality local news, said NewsChannel 9 Vice President and General Manager, Theresa Underwood.

The transition is scheduled to take place in February. In addition to a new studio and state of the art equipment, NewsChannel 9 will have a fresh, clean look and new logo to maximize the crisp HD technology.

Viewers will be able to enjoy all local newscasts and Bridge Street, in addition to ABC's current HD line-up. The HD signal can be viewed over the air at 9.1, on Time Warner digital cable on 9.1 or 889, and on Verizon FiOS 509.

http://www.tvnewsinsider.com/10643
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post #1775 of 2099
1/6/11 at 9:49pm
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Originally Posted by Marcus Carr View Post

In addition to a new studio and state of the art equipment, NewsChannel 9 will have a fresh, clean look and new logo to maximize the crisp HD technology.

Hmmm... I wonder if ABC is pushing the "Number in a Circle" style for their affiliates... THey've had the Circle 7 for a long time, then the 13s went "circular". WHAM in Rochester has the Circle 13 used by O&Os KTRK and WTVG, then WPVI's 6 in Philly recently went "Circular" - now WSYR's "Circle 9" (granted they're not the first to use this logo). WJRT/12 in Flint (being/been sold) and WTVD/11 in Raleigh are the only 2 ABC O&Os not putting their number inside a circle (yet...). Even KFSN/30 in Fresno has gone circular...

I sense a conspiracy! ;-)

J
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post #1776 of 2099
1/7/11 at 4:51am
You'll know if WNEP changes their graphic to a circle 16 after they go HD later this month.
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post #1777 of 2099
1/9/11 at 8:19pm
Knoxville, Tennessee, finally has a station doing HD news. WVLT just started tonight.
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post #1778 of 2099
1/9/11 at 11:14pm
• WVLT (CBS) in DMA 59 (Knoxville, TN) added to the Local Over-the-air HDTV News Stations table. Wikipedia has the news.
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post #1779 of 2099
1/10/11 at 9:06pm
Add whnt2 (19.2) Huntsville, AL - Antenna TV as a non-HD Widescreen Newscast - 9pm airs in widescreen.

Jim
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post #1780 of 2099
1/10/11 at 9:52pm
• AntennaTV:whnt2 added under "Others" for DMA 79 (Huntsville-Decatur-Florence, AL).
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post #1781 of 2099
1/11/11 at 6:17am
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Originally Posted by LMUBill View Post

Knoxville, Tennessee, finally has a station doing HD news. WVLT just started tonight.

I would have never thought they'd be the first. Looked really good last night.
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post #1782 of 2099
1/13/11 at 2:49pm
Just coming back from Huntsville, I'm amazed at how much better looking WAFF (first in HD) is over WHNT (first in Widescreen) then over WAAY (SD all the way...). I guess I'm spoiled in at home where everything local news is HD...

J
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post #1783 of 2099
1/15/11 at 6:51pm
WPMT starts HD news tonight!
http://www.fox43.com/news/wpmt-hd-la...,1173543.story
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post #1784 of 2099
1/15/11 at 7:34pm
KGET Bakersfield is advertising that their local news will go HD sometime this month. I hope they get syndicated HD capability at the same time.
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post #1785 of 2099
1/15/11 at 9:58pm
• WPMT (Fox) in DMA 39 (Harrisburg-Lancaster-Lebanon-York, PA) added to the Local Over-the-air HDTV News Stations table. Wikipedia has an announcement.
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post #1786 of 2099
1/16/11 at 9:06pm
KBAK is advertising that their news is going high definition soon. I assume this will include sister station KBFX. Hopefully this will include syndicated HD capability also. That will leave KERO as the only station in Bakersfield doing English language SD news. KERO added syndicated Hd capability in fall 2009, but no HD news yet.
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post #1787 of 2099
1/17/11 at 1:14am
Desert Hawk, please let me know, in this thread, when HD news actually starts.
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post #1788 of 2099
1/17/11 at 6:56am
KOKI in Tulsa, OK started doing local HD news last night with their 9 pm newscast.
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post #1789 of 2099
1/17/11 at 9:44am
• KOKI (Fox) in DMA 61 (Tulsa, OK) added to the Local Over-the-air HDTV News Stations table. Wikipedia has the news.
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post #1790 of 2099
1/17/11 at 10:22am
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Originally Posted by Syzygy View Post

WPMT (Fox) in DMA 39 (Harrisburg-Lancaster-Lebanon-York, PA) added to the Local Over-the-air HDTV News Stations table. Wikipedia has an announcement.

That now means that the largest media market without HD local news is Buffalo, NY (though WGRZ and YNN Buffalo are in SD widescreen, with WKBW-TV going SD widescreen soon, according to Wikipedia).
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post #1791 of 2099
1/17/11 at 2:31pm
It seems KBAK went HD as of yesterday.

http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/113852864.html
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post #1792 of 2099
1/17/11 at 3:46pm
• KBAK (CBS) in DMA 125 (Bakersfield, CA) changed to upper case. Wikipedia agrees.

The linked article at bakersfieldnow.com says:
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Television stations KBAK-TV (CBS) and KFBX-CD (Fox) launched local newscasts in true high definition on Sunday, January 16, 2011 at 5:00 p.m.
...but Wikipedia has no info on KFBX except as "a commercial radio station programming talk in Fairbanks, Alaska."

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Never mind...
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KBFX-CA Channel 58 is a Class A low-power television station serving Bakersfield, California. It is a Fox affiliate which used to broadcast on analog channel 58. The analog signal went off the air in August 2010. KBFX currently broadcasts in high definition on RF channel 29 which maps to virtual channel 58-1, and also as a subchannel of KBAK-DT (prime time FOX programs are letterboxed); this digital signal is RF channel 33-2 and virtual mapped channel 58-2. It is also available in high definition on Bright House Networks cable.
• KBFX (Fox) added to the Bakersfield line.
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post #1793 of 2099
1/17/11 at 4:16pm
Seems WJAR doesn't get it's 2011

WJAR said they were going HD at the end of 2010 but failed.

http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/ind...topic=173479.0
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post #1794 of 2099
1/18/11 at 10:54am
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Originally Posted by Gt1racer View Post

Seems WJAR doesn't get it's 2011

WJAR said they were going HD at the end of 2010 but failed.

http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/ind...topic=173479.0

Regrettably, conversion work has been postponed indefinitely, if not cancelled. As a result, all of Rhode Island's TV stations still air their local news shows entirely in 4:3 SD for the foreseeable future.
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post #1795 of 2099
1/18/11 at 4:29pm
KBAK and KBFX both have news in HD now. They do not have syndicated HD or local commercials in HD. Oprah was in SD after the HD news on KBFX last night.
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post #1796 of 2099
1/18/11 at 5:59pm
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Originally Posted by jmoz2989 View Post

WPMT starts HD news tonight!
http://www.fox43.com/news/wpmt-hd-la...,1173543.story

Hard to believe it's taken central pa this long. Hopefully the others will make the move sooner now. I've noticed some audio issues but the video has looked great. Sharp, colorful and minimal set.
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post #1797 of 2099
1/18/11 at 7:21pm
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Originally Posted by Gt1racer View Post

Seems WJAR doesn't get it's 2011

WJAR said they were going HD at the end of 2010 but failed.

http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/ind...topic=173479.0

That leaves us as the largest market with no HD or widescreen...
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post #1798 of 2099
1/18/11 at 8:22pm
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Originally Posted by Desert Hawk View Post

KBAK and KBFX both have news in HD now...

Already handled (if you're not aware). See post #1792, above.
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post #1799 of 2099
1/18/11 at 9:10pm
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Originally Posted by RJL1965 View Post

Regrettably, conversion work has been postponed indefinitely, if not cancelled. As a result, all of Rhode Island's TV stations still air their local news shows entirely in 4:3 SD for the foreseeable future.

WJAR is such a massive joke. EVERYTHING they broadcast (except for network programming), is in SD. Their station ID screen is SD, which causes the programming to obnoxiously break out of HD. Their school closings graphic is in SD, and the graphic itself takes up like 70% of the screen. Just hope you don't catch it during network programming. Even during the midterm elections their local poll results were in SD in national news coverage, so if you wanted to watch NBC for national election results on WJAR, you weren't watching it in HD. I honestly don't know how a TV station can be that technologically inept in 2011. It's not 1991 anymore for crying out loud.

In comparison, WPRI/WNAC air just about everything except their newscast in HD. Station IDs, closing graphics, and other graphics that may need to get thrown onto the screen. Even WLNE, who doesn't have a pot to **** in, somehow has the capability to not break the programming out of HD for their own graphics.

WJAR still is in first place in a majority of the timeslots, which WPRI breathing down their neck. How are they still in first place? Because of their colorful NBC logo attached to their channel number?
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post #1800 of 2099
1/19/11 at 10:20am
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Originally Posted by sonicdoommario View Post

WJAR still is in first place in a majority of the timeslots, which WPRI breathing down their neck. How are they still in first place? Because of their colorful NBC logo attached to their channel number?

Conversely, what good is a station broadcasting everything in HD if that station does not have the proper personalities for its news shows, especially if the most dominant station continues to broadcast everything outside of network programming in 4:3 SD?

The reason for one station's first-place showing has something to do with not only the personalities of that station, but also the relative longetivity of those personalities at that same station. After all, if a market's most technologically advanced station's news department has all "nobodies" (meaning those people who are virtual unknowns or who are very bland in their persentations) - or worse, a bunch of novices that can't even do the news presentations or reports properly - then that station deserves to go nowhere but off the air permanently (since that station would have spent way too much money on technology but virtually nothing whatsoever on personnel, and had likely not have anywhere near sufficient money to pay its employees).
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