Putting HDTV on the map in Oklahoma

While watching my recording of ABC’s This Week…, I noticed that KOCO’s crawl about the DTV transition mentioned parts of several counties that may lose its signal when its analog signal is terminated at 9 a.m. on June 12, 2009: southern Garvin, northern Stephens, southwestern Grady, northeastern Comanche, southwestern Caddo, northeastern Washita and eastern [...]

Read: KOCO’s crawl predicts loss of signal »

ggore writes:
…we received the following notice today from KWTV:
KWTV News 9, Oklahoma City, will have a maintenance outage this Saturday night. Actual date/time of outage will be 12:30 AM
Update: Mr. Gore notes in his comment that this outage, scheduled both for over the air and KWTV’s fiber optic cable feed to Cox, will last until [...]

Read: KWTV-DT outage scheduled for Sunday Morning »

I switched all my recording of KOCO-DT from the Mac over to my Dish 211K receiver and it failed to record “This Week…” this morning so both of my receivers are getting a very poor signal. I guess there won’t be any NBA Finals for me this year…
On the EyeTV tuner for the Mac, I [...]

Read: KOCO-DT Update »

The last three times I’ve tried recording something off of KOCO-DT with my EyeTV and my Mac it’s failed. So, now I’ve missed the last two episodes of Lost and my whole season of recordings is messed up. Is anyone else having more problems with KOCO than usual?

Read: Problems with KOCO-DT »

How well are you receiving the VHF channels in Oklahoma City after the DTV transition?

Read: Post-transition Experiences with KWTV-DT and KETA-DT in OKC »

Cox OKC has added KAUT-DT on channel 714.

Read: Cox Adds KAUT-DT »

OKC Cox cable added KSBI HD to their lineup on channel 715 yesterday.

Read: Cox OKC Adds KSBI HD »

Now that KSWO has vacated channel 7 at midnight last night, has anyone noticed any change in the KOCO-DT reception? Has it got better, worse, or the same? Take a look at your DTV signal strength meter if you have one on your equipment.

Read: KOCO-DT KSWO Channel 7 Post DTV Transition »

The time has finally come for the 1st part of the DTV transition to now become reality. If you have a digital tv or a converter you will need to do a rescan for digital tv channels today.
In the Oklahoma City area KWTV-DT is moving its DTV channel from 39 to 9 at 1:00 PM. [...]

Read: Feb 17th DTV Transion is Here »

This is a reminder for anyone out there to see if the “Great Stat or What” segment on KFOR-DT at 6:40 will be in HD or not tonight. We had a report last week on the form that someone saw this segment in HD last week. I have my Media Center and DirecTV HD box [...]

Read: Great State or What HD Segment on KFOR-DT »

According to the official Excel file released today from the FCC, the following stations will continue to run analog transmitters after next Tuesday…
Oklahoma City

KFOR-TV
KOCO-TV
KOPX-TV
KSBI-TV
KTBO-TV
KTUZ-TV

Tulsa

KTPX-TV
KJRH-TV
KOKI-TV
KTUL-TV

Sherman, TX-Ada, OK

KTEN-TV

The other stations that cover Oklahoma, 16 of 28 stations, notified the FCC by last Friday that they would cut off their analog signals on the original cutoff date of [...]

Read: FCC Releases Official List of Stations Terminating Analog Broadcasts »

KWTV has started a crawl at the bottom of their picture stating that they will cease analog broadcasting at 1:00 PM February 17, 2009.

Read: KWTV Starts DTV Crawl »

The Oklahoman is reporting that OKC stations KFOR, KWTV, KOCO, KOKH and OETA will shutdown their analog transmitter on February 17th as planned. KWSO in Lawton will also will shutdown their analog transmitter.
NOTE: KOCB will shutdown their analog transmitter as well.
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In another article things are less clear in Tulsa. KOTV is the only [...]

Read: DTV Switch Articles on Newsok.com »

Confusion reigns following house vote to delay DTV transition until June 12th.

Read: House DTV vote introduces uncertainty »

Congress passed today a bill that would change the DTV transition date from February 17th to June 12th. President Obama said he plans to sign the bill. I believe most stations in Oklahoma will still cut off their analog transmitter on February 17th anyways.

Read: Congress Passes DTV Delay Bill »