I love it how they put WV locals on 61.5 which is smart yet they put other states around WV on 129 which is way lower in elevation and harder to hit... dish is stupid sometimes.
8 New HD Local Markets coming to DISH
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If Dish decides to uplink it in HD, then yes, but for now it's SD only. WHAG has updated their facility and has local programming (i.e., news) in HD.
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The EA had limited spot beam capability for locals until fairly recently. The old sat only covered limited areas since it was a re-purposed satellite. The 129 slot had lots of spot beam capacity that covered lots of markets and that's why most of the HD markets not already on EA were placed on 129. It had little to do with geography at the time.
That has no impact on Dish (or Directv or the local cableco) carrying HD programming from that station. I presume that they've been broadcasting network, primetime programming in HD for years, yes ?
15 or so markets will be moving from east/west arc combos to 100 percent eastern sometime in the first quarter, opening up space on the western arc.
I hope Detroit isn't on that list. I have a good line of sight for WA but I'm iffy on EA. I know Detroit is on both arcs.
We have had our locals (Charleston/Huntington WV) on 105, 129 and now 61.5. 105 was a pain in the butt to tune in and in the end we had some issues with low signal in clear line of site. Then when they put it on 129 it was a God send, in a way. It was way easier than 105 but more people got tree'd out due to low look angles. Now that they have them on 61.5 which was just recently it makes it way easier for line of site although it requires the new MPEG-4 receivers.
Glad to see my neighbors (Parkersburg and Clarksburg) getting their HD locals. I bet Parkersburg will have theirs launch on 61.5 as well. Seems like 61/72 gets most of the channels now with better look angles vs the 110/119/129 which required more satellites to tune in with worse look angles.
Glad to see my neighbors (Parkersburg and Clarksburg) getting their HD locals. I bet Parkersburg will have theirs launch on 61.5 as well. Seems like 61/72 gets most of the channels now with better look angles vs the 110/119/129 which required more satellites to tune in with worse look angles.
I am in the same boat, no los to EA satellites. they seem to be installing EA on new installs so you never know.
would think they would be markets further east than Detroit, one can only hope.
As an Alpena resident, I can tell you that ABC on 3 wasn't there just a month or so ago. In fact, when the conversion took place from SD to Digital, only WBKB-1 (CBS) was local. Fox was added shortly thereafter and now ABC. I have a sneaky hunch that NBC will not be far behind since we now get that from the Saginaw-Flint Michigan area. Personally, I preferred the ABC station that was also in Saginaw/Flint and the Fox that was in Traverse City. However, this is going to be fun to watch because, of the 3 channels that station operates, only 1 (CBS) is HD OTA. The other two are SD channels locally OTA. I suppose there is more of a satellite market here than OTA thus HD uplinks?
Only the local programming sucks. The newscasts are really funny. Rumor is, everyone there gets paid minimum wage, so we cannot expect much. I certainly WOULD NOT ever move to Detroit. Alpena is paradise compared to Detroit. I've never been to TC so I cannot comment on it but it sucks most of the tourism away from the NE Michigan. People miss out on a lot by not coming here.
ummm ABC has been there since January per press releases and reports from folks there. Per wiki (again take with salt)
On January 14, 2013, WBKB added a new third digital subchannel to be the area's ABC affiliate.
press release
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/wb...ent-with-abc-launches-morning-newscast_b76705
When I get home I will see if WHAG in HD was added to the DC market as well or whether we are still seeing it in inglorious SD>
Huh. WHAG transmits on UHF 26, almost the same as our DC WETA (UHF 27).
It's up, according to TheList: http://www.satelliteguys.us/thelist/index.php?search=dnall&sub=true&market=Washington, DC
It's up, according to TheList: http://www.satelliteguys.us/thelist/index.php?search=dnall&sub=true&market=Washington, DC
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