Putting HDTV on the map in Oklahoma

Bobarino writes:

The People’s Art
“A tour of the art featured in the Oklahoma Capitol with Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Robert Henry, a Shawnee native who’s been integral in the beautification effort at the capitol building.”
I just watched this HD show on OETA.
It was excellent, first rate production.
It was about the sculpture and art of [...]

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Yancy writes:
Just received an e-mail response from Mark Norman, Deputy Director for OETA. I had written info@oeta.tv to ask about some bit error-induced artifacts that I was experiencing, and the fact that I could not find the OETA-HD channel despite its being listed on their digital television schedule page (after visiting [...]

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On Monday, PBS’ hour long newscast, The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, became the second major network newscast to go HD after NBC, beating out ABC and CBS for the honor.
They have a transcript of of a story they did on the transition on their site:
The NewsHour Switches to High-Definition Broadcasting Format
I haven’t had a chance [...]

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OETA has had a problem for the past several weeks where the audio on their HD broadcasts is messed up for the first part of any show. Tonight that’s happening with the Ken Burns documentary The War. Hopefully, it’s a local issue and not national…
7:30 p.m. update: The sound finally kicked in…
9:30 p.m. update: The [...]

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For all the couch potatoes, there will be 2 Fourth of July Specials with HD fireworks Wednesday night. Macy’s 4th Of July Fireworks Spectacular 2007 from New York City is on NBC and PBS to broadcasting from Washington D.C. a July 4th fireworks special in high-def, A Capitol Fourth.

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I found this pretty interesting…
Cable or Satellite? That Depends - New York Times
About 97 million of the 111 million homes in the United States can buy cable service with high-definition channels, according to the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, an industry group. That includes the top 100 markets and 203 of the total 210 markets.
Perhaps [...]

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Beginning November 1st (mid-day) Cox and OETA will be launching PBS HD on Cox channel 713 in Oklahoma City. 
Additionally, 4 new standard definition digital channels will be launching on channels 111, 112, 113 and 114.  Channel 111 will be a digital version of the OETA main feed re-broadcast in 100% digital.  Channel 112 will [...]

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OETA has begun sending out canned responses to people who have contacted them about their new lack of HD programming. I just want to address a couple of points contained in the canned message…
True, this plan means we will be broadcasting fewer HD pictures, but there will be far more programming. We will be serving [...]

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I have a bad feeling about this…
As DoubleJ reported in Tulsa, OETA has switched to multicasting four channels again, but this time it looks like it might be for good. I was going to record and watch the American Masters special on Gore Vidal on KETA-DT in Oklahoma City, but instead they are showing the [...]

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I was programming my EyeTV 500 today to record stuff for the next week when I noticed that TitanTV.com now has correct listings for OETA, which broadcasts the PBS HD channel on all of its digital stations around the state.
Even better, the PBS programming schedule for OETA now correctly shows a channel called OETA-HD with [...]

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OETA is carrying two great shows tonight…

Woody Guthrie: Ain’t Got No Home airs tonight at 8 p.m. on OETA. “The music is at the core of what it means to be an American,” says Bruce Springsteen of the work of folk-music icon Woody Guthrie (1912-67), who is recalled via archival footage, photos and recordings.

Following that, [...]

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I noticed last night that OETA now has a page that discusses their HD programming. The page even discusses Cox cable. Does this mean that OETA HD via Cox is imminent?

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This is a copy of the letter I sent to KETA this morning about their digital broadcasting…

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It’s been years now that we’ve been hearing stories about OETA’s Master Control project. What is the status of this? I had read stories here and on other websites last summer that said it was to be completed in the Fall and have heard nothing since then.

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What in the world is going on at PBS’s KETA????? There has been nothing but multiplex SD most, if not all, this week. Sometime ago they did do several nights straight in HD, but I had no complaint about that!

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