Putting HDTV on the map in Oklahoma

I noticed this starting an hour or so ago. There’s a weird ghost image on the digital feed. I don’t see it on any of the other Olympics channels or any other channel for that matter. Look to the right of the NBC Olympics logo. It’s also showing up in the national commercials so I’m [...]

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I noticed during the NBC Nightly News and earlier on some other show that KFOR’s DTV crawl was superimposed over an HD broadcast. Previously, KFOR had to drop out of an HD broadcast to run the FCC-mandated crawl over network programming. Do you think they have new equipment? I guess we’ll know when a thunderstorm [...]

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In the Sunday Oklahoman an article about the Ford Open house Saturday has a quote from Tim Linville saying that they are working lighting and wiring issue due to the demand for HDTV.
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My take on this is that local HDTV NBA Bastketball is coming to the Oklahoma City market. Cox will probably be the main [...]

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I am curious if other cable operators or users are having problems receiving KFOR-DT UHF 27.

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NBC Universal has purchased the Weather Channel for just under $3.5 billion dollars. This could be the end of NBC Weather Plus

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Crown Media Holdings Announces Agreement with Cox Communications for Right to Carry Hallmark Movie Channel in HD
STUDIO CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Crown Media Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRWN), owner and operator of Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel, today announced it has entered into a multi-year agreement with Cox Communications for the right to distribute the High Definition [...]

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I have updated the Cox OKC and Tulsa HD channel list today.

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Someone noted some changes with KFOR-DT last night and speculated that perhaps they were upgrading. Actually, that channel has technical difficulties now and is pretty much non-functional on both my Dish 811 and my EyeTV 500 tuners which probably means some sort of equipment failure. Hopefully, they’ll get it fixed soon…
Dennis

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The FCC Application page has been updated with all filings to the FCC by Oklahoma DTV stations.
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KOCO-DT filed an application this week to operate their DTV channel from maximum directional effective radiated power of 34 kW with an antenna height at 430 meters to a non-directional effective radiated power of 48kW

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David Moran writes:
I live in Norman and am interested in DXing. If I buy a DTV converter box, how likely is it that I would be able to pull in KTEN and/or KXII? Thanks.

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Cox has released new HD channels for Okalahoma City and Tulsa today.

732 USA HD
752 Sci-fi HD
759 Lifetime HD
763 Bravo HD
784 CNBC HD
785 Weather Channel HD

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TVpredictions.com is reporting that Cox Communications has agreed to carry Lifetime Television HD and Lifetime Movie Network HD.  No word yet has to when it is going to be rolled out in Oklahoma. The article hinted that we may see a rollout next month before the  second season of Arm Wives on June 8.

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Bruce writes:
Cox announced today on their web site the upcoming launch of 6 more HD channels effective May 20th. The channels are: USA HD, Lifetime HD, CNBC HD, Bravo HD, Sci-FI HD, and Weather Channel HD.

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I was walking by a TV at work this morning and I noticed that KOCO had a crawl during Ellen that we had 315 days to go until the analog cut off. Anyone else see this?

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