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Channels 34′s lame Big 12 Coverage

Earlier this year I noticed KOCB carrying an OU basketball game in HD and I was encouraged that they might have purchased the equipment to carry the Big 12 Network package in HD. Apparently, that is not the case and it’s actually worse than last year when the picture quality of the 4×3 SD images [...]

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Jeopardy in HD on KFOR-DT

Not being much of a Jeopardy fan, I didn’t notice that it is now being broadcast in HD at 3:30 p.m. weekdays on KFOR-DT…

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Moore Warren Theater to get I-MAX 3D

I am a big fan of the Moore Warren Theater. It is the only movie theater I go to anymore. So I was excited to learn that the Moore Warren Theater is going to build 4000 square foot IMAX 3D theater in the north end of the theater. Bill Warren in a news conference today [...]

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KFOR-DT Off Air Tonight for Maintenance

KFOR-DT on Dish, DirecTV and over the air will be off air starting at 10:30 PM tonight for maintenance on their transmitter. They hope to be back up by 5:00 AM tomorrow morning. If you are on Cox or AT&T Uverse you will be still be able to KFOR-DT.

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Blizzard of 2011 – HD Weather Closings

One of the problems with being first to market is that your gear gets old before the stations that waited to buy their equipment. Perhaps it’s just me, but I find KFOR’s weather graphics offensive because they take up half the screen with big ugly blue graphics. I recorded The Cape last night and am [...]

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2011

In September 2011, this site will celebrate its 10th anniversary. Who would have thought that less than 10 years later, Wheel of Fortune would be in HD on KOCO-DT, along with a number of other syndicated shows, including Seinfeld on KWTV-DT.

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Suddenlink Local HD Channels Down?

Redrings writes in the forums: Came back home from Thanksgiving at the parents and found out that my HD local channels from Suddenlink have stopped working. Survivor didn’t record last wednesday night, so I know it’s been down since then – anyone else having trouble? Anyone else having problems with Suddenlink HD channels?

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KWTV-DT Audio to Go 5.1 Tonight

I saw a post on AVSFORUM where KWTV-DT audio will go 5.1 during prime time tonight. Update from Dennis: It seems to be working fine on my end…

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KWTV-DT News Goes HD

I saw on Twitter this morning that KWTV-DT broadcast its first newscast in HD last night. I usually watch the Sports Blitz before going to bed but I missed it. I will check it out when I get home from work today. I wonder if Dolby Digital 5.1 and HD syndicated programming are around the [...]

Also posted in Cable TV, News, Sightings, Tulsa | 36 Comments

KWTV-DT 9.3 is Off the Air

Someone notified me on Twitter today that KWTV-DT 9.3 is off the air. For those of you who don’t know, 9.3 was used by KWTV during its most recent transition back from its VHF channel to its UHF channel to show a message asking viewers to rescan their channels to pick up the new UHF [...]

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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. [...]

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OKC Thunder Game on ESPN 3D

ESPN 3D released its NBA schedule today. The Oklahoma City at Orlando game Fri, Feb 25

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Cox Adds NFL Red Zone Channel

Cox is adding the NFL RedZone channel this Sunday! To tune Cox ch. 268(SD) & 708(HD) in OKC & 268(SD) & 713(HD) in Tulsa.

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KWTV to shut down VHF channel 9 permanently

KWTV has received FCC approval to shut down channel 9 over-the-air transmissions and use UHF channel 39 as their exclusive transmitter. The shutdown will occur Monday, August 30 at 12:30 PM following the noon newscast. Short service interruptions will begin July 29 to induce viewers to re-scan their tuners for the UHF signal. The PSIP [...]

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KOCO-DT Broadcasting From New Antenna

KOCO-DT is broadcasting from their new antenna that is attached at the top of their tower. It looks like there is still some fine still tuning going on so if do have KOCO-DT in your channel guide it would be a good idea to do a rescan.

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