Cleveland TV station switching to a DTV subchannel
I just read today that one of Cleveland's UHF television stations, the city's first commercial UHF station (went on the air in 1968), will be changing to a DTV subchannel in the near future, according to an article at Cleveland.com. The article said the station is not leaving the air, despite rumors that it would in fact sign off permanently as a result of the FCC's spectrum auction. The auction will end on March 30, again according to the Cleveland.com article. This article also stated that TV viewers may need to rescan their TVs once the station's OTA transmitter is sold. If this happens (as I am sure it will), how do I go about rescanning my own television? My TV's remote has so many buttons on it it confuses me (I cannot read very well due to vision problems, so half the time I don't know which buttons do what anymore, and in fact some buttons don't do anything; I get confused when I try to use the buttons on the side of my TV as well).
I wish I could go back to the old style of television that has two knobs on the front for channel tuning; at least with these sets (I've owned several), there is no rescanning or other nonsense required if and when TV stations change channels. I don't care for DTV either (I cannot tell the difference in picture quality between standard definition and HD television anyway on my 19-inch flat screen) and could live without it. I still have two 19-inch CRT TVs and am ready at any time to use one of them to replace my flat screen, as DTV is much too complicated for me; as I said, I cannot tell the difference between standard definition and HD pictures, so high-definition picture quality is lost to me. |
Scanning for channels varies from model to model...You need to RTFM!
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Since he appears to be not using an OTA antenna, just Roku and perhaps some cable connection for viewing, I should think that no scanning of his tv would be necessary.
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My TV is important to me because I cannot read well (my eyeglasses, as strong as they are, do not work well for me anymore). How will I get the new DTV channel for Cleveland's channel 43 without going to a lot of trouble? I am not even sure my Roku will get the new station once it is moved to the new digital channel. I have had it with DTV. I wish, oh how I wish I could go back to the old type of TV with a nice big knob on the front that changes channels, as was almost universal in the '50s until the DTV era started, instead of this DTV stuff that needs to be rescanned every time something changes with the television stations. Is there any place in the United States that still has the old analog channels that can be tuned in simply by turning a knob that clicks? That system served this country well for over five decades, until this DTV garbage arrived and ruined everything. For jr_tech: Yes, I still have my Roku and a cable connection (no standard television antenna), so I should not have to rescan my TV even if the channels change. However, there is still the question of if or when the new channel will be added to the channel guide on the Roku. On second thought, why should I worry about it? I almost never watch channel 43 anyway, since the station carries most Cleveland sports and I do not care for sports--never have in all my 60 years and never will. |
RTFM is a ubiquitous phrase among engineers....I lost count of times in college times in college that students asked dumb/lazy questions and professors flatly told them to RTFM.
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BTW and for what it is worth, in reference to my being unable to read the labels on the buttons on my TV remote (or on my television itself), it is because I was in an accident about 15 years ago in which I hit my head very hard on the ground; I had to go to the ER in a distant town to have 11 stitches in my head (I still have a scar above one eye from that). I probably sustained a concussion or worse as a result of the accident, and I feel very fortunate to be alive to tell about it today. The accident messed up not only my memory but, I am afraid, my eyesight as well. I wear very strong eyeglasses that do not work well for me anymore; the channel guide on my Roku streaming player, for example, uses such a small font that I have quite a bit of difficulty reading it. Reading is very difficult for me at this time (for the same reasons) as well. Too darn bad, as I used to enjoy reading. Life is so darned unfair. I am 60 years old and far too young, IMO, to give up reading just yet. |
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If you can read this forum then you can read the manual...In 5 minutes you can Google your sets make model + manual, find a PDF file of it that you can download, and zoom in on till the letters are as big as your thumb if that is what you need to do to read it... |
Jeffhs, your first post has you all worried about needing to rescan your TV to change the OTA channel and asking us how to do it...without even telling us the brand and model of your TV.
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Unlike 50 years ago, almost anything you need to know is a few mouse-clicks away. Not big enough to read? Just enlarge it so that each word fills the screen. Still too small? Have your computer read it to you. Can't hear it very well? Pair your computer to your bluetooth-enabled hearing aids and beam it in that way. Bigger hearing problem? Cochlear implant. So in general, accommodations have gotten much better over the last half-century.
To your specific issue, most TVs allow you to directly enter the channel number, including sub-channel. 10.2, or 10 (dash) 2, etc. depending on model. Don't have a Roku, but if it acts like a tuner, it'll probably do it. If it comes in over cable, then call your cable company and ask. You won't be the first or the last. If you don't watch it anyway, don't bother! Turn the TV off and go outside -- it's gonna be 60 degrees out there today! Use the extra time to check in with your doctor, to see if similar advancements have been made pertaining to your condition. Nerve, vision, and other issues are seeing constant breakthroughs, and Cleveland area has some pretty big players in the medical field. Plus, 60 is pretty young these days. Good luck! Chip |
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I am not kidding or making any of this up, and I am very well not trying to be difficult. There is one man who lives just a couple blocks from me, an amateur radio operator, no less, who will have nothing whatsoever to do with me; I found this out several years ago when I asked him for help on a problem I was having with something I was working on at the time. I left him my name and phone number during an amateur radio roundtable, but he never responded. Believe me, again, I am not trying to cause trouble or to be difficult. I have tried to explain my situation here the best I can. It may seem unbelievable or even incredible, but that is, unfortunately, the situation I have had to live with for years, and probably will live with the rest of my life; in fact, as far as my relatives are concerned, it will only get worse, since they are all getting up in years, live too far away from me and refuse to drive this far, or both. For the person who asked about my Roku streaming video player: No, the Roku is not a television tuner. It does not have a thing to do with RF signals or cable, just video streams, and it works only with stations it finds automatically over the Internet (there is no way to manually input individual television channels, as its remote does not have a keypad; a universal remote will not allow input of individual stations either). My cable service is such that I only get seven local TV stations, one of which is channel 43; this station will eventually move to a DTV subchannel of the CBS television affiliate because the former's RF spectrum was recently sold in an FCC spectrum auction. |
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I think the salient points are A) you're getting 43 by cable, so this switch will not be an issue for you and B) you don't care whether you get it or don't, so this switch will not be an issue for you.
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The owner of two television stations in Cleveland made what I consider a questionable move for money. They sold the powerful UHF license and kept the weaker VHF one, and will be moving the 43 (WUAB) programs to the weaker RF channel 10.transmitter sharing it with CBS (WOIO). I'm sure some subchannels will get cut to make room on the single transmitter's data stream.
Viewers who reliably receive CBS over the air with an antenna will probably never see a difference. PSIP not only allows multiple virtual channels like 19.1, 19.2, 19..., it makes possible the arrangement of 19.1, 19.2 and 43.1, 43... on the same channel 10 transmitter, so someone who has been watching 19 will be equally able to.watch channel 43. Problem is, a lot of people in the Cleveland area have trouble getting reliable service from CBS 19 and those viewers will be losing 43 as well. If they had sold out the channel 10 spectrum, they would have received less auction proceeds, but they could have moved the 19.1 CBS service to the UHF transmitter (along with 43) and have solved their coverage problems. It is interesting to note that Univision did not sell their spectrum in Cleveland, an auction result I would have expected (counting Spanish-speaking markets, Cleveland is one market rank above Lexington, Nebraska). I could easily see CBS getting frustrated with its poor OTA coverage of the Cleveland market, and looking for a new affiliate or O&O, perhaps considering swapping a handful of stations in smaller markets that are bilingual for a great signal (and content control) in big Anglophone Cleveland. |
I thinks as of now there is no stations here in CT will get a reprieve getting piggybacked with another channel.All of our main stations will stay on the air as they are now.We will lose a few low budget stations,A PBS afil ,and a couple Spanish language stations which all will go off the air for good and take the loot..
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WWSI is Telemundo for South Jersey. One day after never being able to pull it in, it locked in on the Samsung SIRT-451, not an e-skip fluke either.
After scanning in on another DT, I found it was coming from one of the Philly transmitters as a subchannel, though it's virtual was still 62.1 It would be nice if WHYY would abandon VHF 12, they broadcast much less power than is needed to cover their area, and go as a sub on one of the flamethrower transmitters like WPHL-17. |
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Tropospheric refraction affects VHF and UHF. Trop (also called tropo) is more common than E-skip, but usually involves shorter distances than Es. Most trop openings affect all TV channels and the FM broadcast band, but the low VHF channels and the FM band are sometimes excluded. |
What Jeff is experiencing in the Cleveland coverage area is also true in most of this area. If you want all the channels and are outside of the near-suburbs, its not always possible unless you have an outdoor VHF antenna, and if it is not a large one with a least 8 elements, usually a mast-mounted pre-amp is needed for stable VHF.
I have found rabbit ears useless for all but one local channel WGAL-8, which is high band V. It makes customer's antenna installations difficult because the other local is WHTM-10 the ABC, but to pull just that ONE channel, a 10-element HB yagi or VHF broadband must be added to a modest UHF antenna, which easily pulls in the 5 UHF locals. This makes an easy installation much more complex, large and for some, unsightly. The stations who decided to remain on VHF as DT have become the "difficult" channels where for UHF, the opposite is true. Most of those UHF fringe channels now on DT can be received with a classic corner reflector or 4-bay bowtie! Prior to DTV, WJZ-13, WBAL-11, WPVI-6 and WHYY-12 could be received with a small VHF antenna up to 60 miles away, as we are. After DTV, a much larger VHF is needed, with an amp |
Sorry to tune off topic alittlebet. .Pun intended. What is surprising to me is whats happening in TV's number one market with WNBC TV 4.
http://www.radiodiscussions.com/show...or-214-million http://www.broadcastingcable.com/new...ns-wwsi/164893 |
WCAU has a way better signal on DT-34, WWSI is way better off there, allows them to compete directly with WUVP. This eliminates the coverage area advantage WUVP enjoyed. KYW and WPHL are also good candidates to add sub-channels and charge "rent", as these are the most stable even at the fringe.
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