This channel WCWF exists!
Does anyone know why in the Burlington Vt DMA, channel 3 WCAX (CBS), channel 33 WETK (pbs) and channel 57 WCFE (PBS) are showing on my 2 HD receivers as HD duplicates but only being broadcast in SD. Is this a glich? There is also a new channel 40 WCWF with to be announced...Directv doesnt know why I am seeing these duplicates as they are not provided in HD as of yet.
I just found out this info about channel 40 wcwf that apparently already exists from Wiki Encyclopedia:
WCWF is the newest
television station in the
Plattsburgh, New York -
Burlington, Vermont market. Licensed to
Saranac Lake, the station broadcasts an analog signal on
UHF channel 40. WCWF's transmitter is located south of the village of Moody at the top of the currently unused Big Tupper Ski Area. Its studio is located at 1958
Route 30 in
Tupper Lake, New York. The station is owned by Channel 61 Associates LLC of
Sarasota, Florida, which is composed of Floyd Cox, Donald J. McHone and SMC Communications, the owners of
WWBI-LP.
The station went on the air on
September 11,
2007, however, the signal doesn't actually reach Plattsburgh or Burlington, nor does it reach
Montreal, where Burlington/Plattsburgh stations get many of their viewers from.
[1] This will be a great disadvantage for WCWF, in which they would need to rely on cable coverage in Burlington and Plattsburgh (a moot point for now, as the station carries the same schedule and ads as WWBI), as well as approval from the
CRTC to be carried on cable systems in Montreal.
WCWF applied for its construction permit on
September 22,
1995. The
FCC approved it on
October 4,
2004.
So by inclusion in the program list, is Direct TV planning on adding it? probably not....
Richard Longwell
