DTVuser2009

1inxs

The CW has been coming and going here for the past two (2) days. Another two weeks and I'll be completely and partially happy with the complete almost DTV transition.

DTVuser2009

The issue here is our CW affiliate is in a huge mess. Roberts Broadcasting which owned the office and tower in Evansville, IN sold it to BHG (Sp?) Communications and had a permit to build a tower in Madisonville (where TV Fool shows it) but the tower never quite got approved by that area, and Evansville's got shut down, that meant no more analog CW affiliate since late December, 2008. and no digital one, either. so right now it is completely in the dark while Satellite/Cable has been enjoying it uninterrupted for the entire time. the translators have been there but i never knew they existed. they only exist on 4, 5, and 17. i always tuned to 19. so i never knew. apparently they're still online but it may be a shot in the dark here. can't hurt to try.

I am still holding out a flame of hope that they will get their act together and get digital up and running, i have missed a lot of shows since. reminds me of that Frasier episode where he had one tape missing from his radio show and never got over it. i've had the same issue, i pick up all the other channels but lost one. that is unacceptable.

What i find odd is how TVFool showed it as fringe (blue/pink or otherwise impossible to pick up here in Daviess County, KY) and now it is kinda in the yellow or green in the map plot, but only barely. so either they got some sorty a tower built and it's barely operating or i'm seeing a translator or something.

Wikipedia shows WAZE-TV in Digital RF Channel 20 which maps to 19.1 and shows the data for the Madisonville location but states that it provides a Grade B "Rimshot" signal to only part of the Evansville/Kentucky market so it either exists but is not able to be picked up so far or it's not there at all. i don't know who to believe any longer. According to Wiki, it's been in Madisonville from day 1, but Evansville's is done gone. but according to Jakes DTV Blog, the Madisonville tower doesn't exist yet. who's right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAZE-TV

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Didn't we have great opening themese over here back then?

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Orrymain

Just for kicks, I did analog pass through and took a tour up and down my dial. The two nightlighting channels here came in loud and clear, then there was a channel 101 with cartoons on it, and about 3 other spanish-speaking channels, and, I chuckled at this, Home Shopping Network. Leave it to the shopping network to stay on the air on analog! lol

DTVuser2009

Some analog channels may be bought and operated by independents such as some radio stations do and with canned programming. a college is likely to use one eventually and broadcast local news or other stuff.

They may also be bought by a translator and operated as a repeater. who knows. i only had one nightlighting PSA on channel 44, but aside from KET, NBC, and PBS going fully-digital and no more analog, channel 7 (FOX) and channel 25 (ABC) are still showing regular programming.

As for hoping for a translator for CW (WAZE) nothing. channel 19, nothing. channel 4, nothing. channel 5, maybe its?......nothing. looked like something. channel 17, nothing.