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KOCO Channel 5 News Now in Widescreen SD

As a few people have pointed out, KOCO is now broadcasting its news in HD. I’m not exactly sure when this started, but it’s happened in the last week or so. This means more than half of the major network affiliates now have local news in HD with only KWTV and KOKH trailing the pack. [...]

Categorized as: Oklahoma City, Programming | 17 Comments

Cox making changes to OnDemand

jedicurt writes in the forums: I was watching tv last night and saw a commercial from cox talking about changes that are being made to the OnDemand service and all of this is coming in September… [Details (2.3 MB pdf file)]

Categorized as: Cable TV, Programming | 13 Comments

KOCO-TV Gets New Digital Antenna

Aurora 5000 passed along this link: KOCO-TV Gets New Digital Antenna OKLAHOMA CITY — Eyewitness News 5 has received a new digital antenna to help improve its over-the-air signal. The state-of-the-art antenna stands nearly 1,500 feet high and uses an omni-directional, multi-polar signal that should help viewers tune in KOCO-TV better. Construction crews will take [...]

Categorized as: Oklahoma City, Thunder | 66 Comments

Maintenance and Upgrades

Inactive user accounts will be deleted in the next week or so.

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Clear QAM Channels on Cox

Taddeusz writes: I’m not sure when it happened but KFORDT, KFORDT2, KOCODT, and KOCODT2 are currently available on two separate clear QAM channels in the OKC area, 84 and 116. Previously they were only on channel 84. I wonder if Cox is planning on moving those from 84 to 116 and they are keeping both [...]

Categorized as: Cable TV, Programming | 4 Comments

Is KOCO-DT off the Air?

I saw something about this a day or two ago, but I just noticed I haven’t been able to pick up KOCO-DT all day? Did they get knocked off the air by the snow? Dennis

Categorized as: Oklahoma City | 32 Comments

OETA finishing digital transition starting today

From Twitter: OETA begins the end of our statewide digital transition today – Lawton Viewers: OETA channel 36 switches to digital-only TODAY! You must RESCAN your converter boxes and digital TV sets to continue watching OETA channel 36.1 and our new digital Okla Channel 36.2 … Tomorrow, we travel to Altus and Frederick … watch [...]

Categorized as: OETA, Wichita Falls/Lawton | 9 Comments

Jenks vs. Union Championship Game in HD

According to its Twitter account, Cox Oklahoma will be carrying the Jenks vs. Union football game in HD on Friday at 7:30 p.m. on channel 710. Not sure if this is in both Oklahoma City and Tulsa, but it is a state championship game. To my knowledge, this is the first high school game broadcast [...]

Categorized as: Cable TV, Programming | 2 Comments

Nielsen: Stations Lost 8% In DTV Switch

Neilson reports on its blog that on average stations lost eight percent share following the digital transition due in large part to TVs that weren’t ready. Stations that switched from UHF to VHF lost 13 percent share right after the transition.

Categorized as: DTV Switchover, Oklahoma City, Programming | 2 Comments

Twitter Lists

Suggest HD-related twitter accounts to add to the new lists for @hdtvok.

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KOCO preparing for HD newscasts?

Clark Willis asks: Do the blue bars added to KOCO 5 mean they are working on HD newscast? I noticed the bars over the weekend and wondered the same thing. Does anyone have the inside scoop? Dennis

Categorized as: Oklahoma City, Programming | 9 Comments

New Cox HD Channels

From Cox Oklahoma‘s Twitter feed via Philip Spicer: Cox’s 8 New HD channels: NBA TV HD, NHL Network HD, ESPNU HD, MSNBC HD, WGN HD, CBS College Sports HD, The Movie Channel HD & MoreMax HD.

Categorized as: Cable TV, Oklahoma City, Programming, Tulsa | 7 Comments

HDTVOK on Twitter…

I meant to mention this a few days ago, but I’m occasionally posting updates on twitter and following people of interest for HD insights that I can bring back here. Follow if you must…

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KSBI-TV Expanding HD Offerings

I noticed today that KSBI-TV is carrying the SEC Network game of the week in HD, which likely means as part of their recent move the station has upgraded its equipment. They’ve also put out a press release saying the entire season of Oklahoma City Thunder NBA games will be in HD.

Categorized as: Oklahoma City, Production, Programming, Thunder | 2 Comments

Inside Sooner Football Letterboxed

Does anyone else find it silly that Inside Sooner Football is shown in glorious letterboxed standard definition on KWTV? Clearly, the show is shot using HD cameras for the show, but apparently the producers aren’t intelligent enough to either zoom in on the frame when encoding for broadcast or to actually show it in high [...]

Categorized as: Oklahoma City, Production, Programming | Tagged | 13 Comments
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