The CW in HD?

[kikenovic]

A while ago (a few years maybe) Dish added WPIX and I **Think** at the time was CW San Diego (was 69 now as moved to 6) to markets that didnt have a CW. Even after some markets got their "local" CW Dish has kept it

My market (Duluth, MN) has had WPIX as channel 251 for a few years now. Recently Dish added the local CW (KDLH-DT2) under channel 11 but we still have 251 as WPIX

Thanks Iceberg. That explains it. My current market doesn't have a local CW.

 

[aryan84]

Is there any info on CW Hd for West Palm Beach, FL?

 

[356B]

It's not in San Francisco either......

 

[Peter Parker]

Not sure, I kind of remember this being debated about the time of the digital switchover. The superstations were grandfathered by call sign i.e... KTLA and not KTLA - DT.

The notion that the digital switchover had any effect on the superstations was a mistake and has been discredited. DISH was actually using digital feeds of the supers even begore the switchover.

 

[Peter Parker]

Most likely it has more to do with contracts than bandwidth.

No contracts are required to carry a superstation. Ther is also nothing in the law that prevents HD Carriage. I supect DISH is wconcerned about syndex claims if they did this---particularly in markets where there CW coverage is in SD,

 

[garys]

It may be that Dish does not want to give CW in HD to markets that do not have it in HD as a courtesy to the sd only markets.

 

[dan188]

If i had cable my local cw isnt in hd anywhere. I just glad i can get cw as a superstation on dish. Worth the 2 bucks to me. Would hd be grate?? Yes if it was a perfect world.

 

[gatekeeper]

Any word on CW 21 HD for birmingham Ala ?