KFOR SD has switched from channel 3 to channel 4 on Cox Cable today. If you have any recording scheduled on channel 3 you may have to cancel your recordings and create to new recording for each show on channel 4.
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Network DTV Station NBC 27 KFOR-DT IND 51 KSBI-DT ABC 7 KOCO-DT ION 50 KOPX-DT FOX 24 KOKH-DT WB 33 KOCB-DT TBN 15 KTBO-DT PBS 32 KETA-DT CBS 39 KWTV-DT UPN 40 KAUT-DT Tulsa DTV
Network DTV Station NBC 56 KJRH-DT CBS 55 KOTV-DT ION 28 KTPX-DT FOX 22 KOKI-DT IND 49 KGEB-DT UPN 42 KTFO-DT ABC 10 KTUL-DT IND 48 KWHB-DT PBS 38 KOED-DT WB 55-2 KWBT-DT Ada, OK/Ardmore, OK
Network DTV Station CBS 20 KXII-DT NBC 26 KTEN-DT Bartlesville, OK
Network DTV Station TBN 15 KDOR-DT Cheyenne, OK
Network DTV Station PBS 8 KWET-DT Claremore, OK
Network DTV Station IND 35 KRSC-DT Eufaula, OK
Network DTV Station PBS 31 KOET-DT Shawnee, OK
Network DTV Station IND 29 KQOK-DT Surrounding States
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Network DTV Station ABC 21 KHBS-DT CBS 18 KFSM-DT NBC 27 KPOM-DT PBS 45 KAFT-DT Wichita Falls, TX/Lawton, OK
Network DTV Station ABC 11 KSWO-DT CBS 22 KAUZ-DT Fox 15 KJTL-DT NBC 28 KFDX-DT
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Was it Metromedia who was the cable operator in OKC suburbs before Cox? I vaguely remember ch 4 people being thrilled when Cox took over and shifted WKY-TV 4 (now KFOR) to cable ch 3.
I believe it was Edmond where I saw Metromedia’s WKY littered with co channel interference because WKY OTA 4 was on Metromedia cable ch 4.
Does anyone remember?
I remember when Norman cable carried KTEN Ada and ch 42 (Ind) from Kansas City. The last time I looked, the old Norman cable OTA antennas still sit atop an OU building. The microwave screen for the Kansas City channel is gone.
Your memory is correct about Cox taking over for the company that provided service to the suburbs. All the local stations had to be relocated away from the channel number associated with their OTA signal. Most people got screwed up reception when the cable channel number and the OTA channel number matched.
I live in the part of OKC that started out with cable service from PanOklahoma and sometime before or right after Cox took over their service area there was this big emergency deal where numerous channels had to be relocated in one day because of interference between the cable service and local public emergency services.
I happened to be home that day and it was something to watch as channels went blank and then resurfaced elsewhere on the lineup leaving gaps in the lineup. People would come home from work that day, turn on the cable TV and start yelling at the TV because they couldn’t find their favorite local channels. Their switchboard got some heavy traffic that day.
Now that DTV rules just about every local station in the 2 to 13 range can return to their old channel number if they can get the cable service to go along with the idea. And that brings up the question: after the DTV conversion dust settles, will KFOR (for example) want to continue to be known by their true DTV channel number or stay with “4″ forever?
It was Multimedia, not Metromedia.
Any clues if other channels will do the same? Anybody know what Cox plans on doing with channel 3?
The Cox Channel is moving from channel 7 to channel 3. It is on channel 3 now in Tulsa so it will be channel 3 statewide.
CoxEmp,
Do you recieve every single local broadcast channel through fiberlinks? No antennas?
Any idea what’s going to go on channel 7?
I’d like to see them put all three local channels on their respective channels. I’ve always thought it’d be nice if they put the weather channel on one of the lower channels for easier access.
On a national level cable companies are starting to drop analog altogether. They can get 4 HD channels for the same bandwidth one analog channel uses. Some are keeping the “basic” (up to channel 22 or so) in analog and switching the ‘expanded basic’ to a digital only service. Other cable companies are dropping analog altogether and providing digital boxes.
CoxEmp, do know of any plans for Cox to start dropping analog service in the future?
Jan. 22, Time Warner in Waco, Killeen, Temple, and Austin dumped analog 40, 41, 48, and 75. CMT, Oxygen, ABC Family, and TruTV. To view these channels, one must have a digital STB. They are now digital only on the same channel numbers. Some people were angered.
A year ago, analog 15 and 16 were dumped.
TW has added a bunch of new HD since Jan. 22, including Gospel Music Channel HD. It’s mostly stretch-o-vision. ESPN-U, Fuse, MTV, AMC, TCM, History Int, CBS College Sports, HBO 2, HBO Zone, HBO Family, Encore, Showtime Too, MSNBC, HLN, Spike, FX, MLB 2.
Overbuilder Grande Communications in Waco now has analog channels 2-71. They used to have analog 2-83.
I read that Cablevision in NY and CT plan to dump all analog this year.
Going all-digital is a much more efficient use of spectrum, and it allows the cable system to use a very simple digital-only box for those customers who have digital sets, or old analog sets. A cost of $70 instead of $500 for example.
ggore,
I read about Comcast’s 3 all digital test sites. The plant is all digital with an analog converter at the housebox. For those who need analog, Comcast converts say 2-64 to analog at the housebox.
It makes a 550 mhz system work well.
Time Warner uses digital switching on some not watched very much channels, to help with bandwidth constraints.
The OU-Utah State PPV game a few years ago didn’t work so well. I waited till the last minute to order with no success. TW underestimated the interest in the digital switched PPV game. There was no room for the ones ordering late. TW now does PPV events on a regular “available to all” channel.
Add HD’s Cartoon Net, Disney DX, Speed, WE, Discovery Investigation, Fox Soccer, Planet Green, Nickelodian, BET, Hallmark, NBA, Tennis, Comedy Central, and CMT to Central Texas Time Warner lineups.
ggore, are the simple $70 digital boxes just clear QAM tuners or do they handle encrypted stuff also? If a customer has a TV with a QAM tuner do they need a box?