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There's one unknown: What did WHBF demand of mediacom so mediacom could carry WHBF in Iowa City?? I'll bet mediacom is not paying WHBF, but the problem is mediacom HAS to carry WHBF in Iowa City, but for how long? Would love to trade WHBF for TNT-HD

Last night, all of my channels loaded but none of the actual program listings were available, but this is progress of sorts.

Have any of you had a similar experience--channels one night, program listings another?

What do those of you who download TVGOS do about the order of the channels since they are not downloaded in the order that Mediacom has them in?
Nothing?
I think I might do nothing if I can do these two things, using the order that they are downloaded in...
1) If I am on a particular channel, say a movie channel, can I push the INFO button on my remote and get some of the same sort of info that I can get by using the Mediacom box--title of movie, date, starts, length, etc.?
2) If I want to do a basic search, as for example, for a title of a movie or program or of a sport (say, boxing), will I be able to do that?
Or is it necessary to re-arrange the downloaded order so that it matches the order that Mediacom uses?
If it is, is there a simple way to do this--something other than manually treating each channel?

Interesting... Here is what I was told last night:

"The Gemstar supplied TVGuide information is a separate service and Gemstar recently signed a deal with CBS network for delivery. I don't know if this precludes PBS from a similar carriage deal but I haven't heard where they are on this."

Anyone?

Last I checked (although I record and watch OTA):

21.4 KGAN-DT

114.1 KWWL-DT
114.2 NBC Weather Plus
114.3 The Tube Music Network
114.4 KRIN-DT
115.2 KCRG-DT
115.4 KXFA-DT
115.6 KCRG Weather

I see it as 89.4 (fairly sure-Im at work) via mediacom in Iowa City

Is it working now? Do you know if this is using the analog or digital version of TVGOS? I got a report this morning of problems in the Waterloo area with TV Guide on analog, the viewer says Sony confirmed it was a problem with the data coming from PBS in his area (I'm not sure how they determined that).

It's possible that the little box at the transmitter that inserts the TV Guide info into the VBI has given up the ghost, or has corrupted information in it. GemStar is supposed to be checking it out since that is their equipment.

FYI: Mediacom (at least in Iowa City) lost KFXA-FOX on 6/26 both analog & HD. I'm told Mediacom analog is back on, but still working on HD (#828) & qam

At first, it was very static filled. Now, it seems as if there's a tape dragging, I believe they call it wow and flutter. Basically, it makes it unwatchable, happens up to 10 times every song! Has to be at the source, I'd think.

Just curious if anyone else seeing this. Kind of a drag, this has become one of my favorite channels nowadays.

Does anyone have the Mediacom HD DVR with HDMI output and can confirm with me that my box is working as intended. I am coming from Tivo so am finding the box to be very weak. When pausing the video, sometimes it continues for a few seconds, then jumps back. Rewinding and fast forwarding have no compensation for peoples reaction times, so when you hit play, it starts from exactly what you saw while in the FF or Rew mode. Also, my box appears to drop frames from 1080i sources, about one out of every 30 frames gets dropped, its very noticable (causes a jerky motion about every second) and annoying. Also, from time to time the HDMI output quits sending audio out, and also from time to time the Firewire output quits sending anything out to my DVHS VCR. Mediacom had me reset the box and redownload the software to it, but it is acting about the same still...

just 2 and pbs for ImOn qam still. Wish they did 9 and 7 so i dont have to switch back and forth or get a stb since my tv only has one tuner.

Anyone else lost all of their OTA digital stations?

Not very specific in your details, but I am getting all local channels just fine via OTA & Mediacom QAM....

I don't know what has changed from last night to today, but all OTA digital channels are coming in fine now...

KCRG is having their tower painted. This will require some off-air time that will affect all signals from the tower at various times, this would be KCRG and KRIN analog, and KCRG-DT, KGAN-DT, and KRIN-DT.

Most of the service affecting work is being scheduled for overnight hours, but wanted to give a heads up.

Work was to begin at midnight tonight, but it looks like it may be raining in that area so my guess is that they will hold off until tomorrow night.

In Waterloo: I assume weather is responsible, but last night OTA I could only get KFXA in. Oddly, although my KWWL OTA was out, it still came in through QAM on Mediacom, but neither KCRG and KGAN came in either OTA or QAM.

There was a power outage that affected the Walker and Rowley areas. Most of the locals do not have generator backups for the DTV transmitters (yet.)

KWWL likely feeds the Waterloo cable headend via fiber.

What are the Mediacom channels 961 through 980 going to be? They just showed up in line after the hd channels on Mediacom.

Nobody knows. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r187...annels-more-HD

I just lost the OTA ATSC digital broadcasts from KGAN, KWWL, KCRG and PBS this afternoon. I still have KFXA. Of course this happened shortly after I agreed to record something for somebody on the digital stations tonight.

I still get KWWL over QAM cable in addition to KFXA.

Anyone else know what is going on. I'm guessing a power outage.

As of 4:15, I have KCRG and a good signal on KRIN but no picture. KGAN & KWWL are off air, which is strange since they are on different towers so I would not think it would be a power outage.

Obviously something big must have happened.

The good news is, it looks as if KCRG-DT is back up as of just after 4 p.m.

However, KRIN-DT appears to be putting out a signal but that signal has nothing decodable on it, and KGAN-DT and KWWL-DT are still out.

IPTV Digital is still operational on channel 12-1/12-2 out of West Branch (east of Iowa City) if you can get it.

The Eastern Iowa REC had a power failure this afternoon that affected the Walker tower that KGAN, KCRG, and KRIN transmit from, it also affected the Rowley area where KWWL's tower is located.

After power was restored an MPEG router at the KRIN transmitter site decided to come up on the wrong channel, so the transmitter had no data to transmit. A local engineer went out and pressed a button (too bad all fixes aren't that easy!)

You know, I hate painting a room in my house. Despise it, so I hire others to do it.
Do it at 2 AM 600' in the air...no thank you. I'm glad others have the courage to do it!

You have to wonder how good of a job they do painting in the dark. I'll never know, I'm not going up there to check!

Another power failure today during the thunderstorm. Power restored just before 6:00pm.

Was it just me, or was KWWL analog also off?

It's now official.

The FCC released its "final" list of channel designations (in .pdf) which all U.S. digital TV stations will have after 2-17-09.

(I say "final" in quotes because there's still a comment period.)

No real surprises for the Big Four Eastern Iowa cities:

- KGAN will (thankfully!) stay on 51 at 500 kW ERP.
- KWWL will return to channel 7 at 3.2 kW, which I kind of wonder about. (There's a channel 7 in the Hannibal-Quincy area which also plans to go back to 7; wonder if that has anything to do with it.)
- KCRG will return to channel 9 at 19.2 kW.
- KIIN will go back to channel 12 at 17.8 kW.
- KYOU (Fox Ottumwa) will return to channel 15 with 50 kW.
- KWKB will stay on 25 at 1 MW.
- KWWF, the former UPN affiliate in Waterloo, will need to flash cut on channel 22 to an 80.9 kW DT signal.
- KFXA will remain on channel 27 at 1 MW. WKOW in Madison will keep its digital channel 26 and abandon its current analog service on 27.
- KRIN will remain on channel 35 at 250 kW.
- KFXB, now a religious station in Dubuque, will stay on 43 at 800 kW.
- KPXR will stay on 47 and will be allowed 500 kW.