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Fiesta Bowl in 3D

Posted By: Kevin Sherrard on December 29, 2010

This Fiesta Bowl is coming up Jan 1 on ESPN 3D and ESPN HD. The Sooners will be taking on the Huskies, kick off is set at 7:30 PM Central. It is will the first time an Oklahoma college team will be on ESPN 3D. I know DirecTV is carries ESPN 3D but is there any other providers in Oklahoma that carry ESPN 3D?

Categorized as: 3D, Programming | 3 Comments

Housekeeping

Posted By: Dennis Whiteman on December 2, 2010

Someone contacted me the other day asking why registrations were disabled. There was no special reason except that before I disabled registration we had about 20 or so ‘bot spammers registering each day to try to inject stuff into the database. I had intended to turn registrations back on several months ago, but I got busy and forgot.

Registrations are now turned back on and I’ve added a simple method to discourage ‘bots from registering. Now, you’ll have to solve a simple math equation when you register and also confirm your registration via a link. It won’t stop the ‘bots, but I can enable stronger mechanisms if that becomes necessary. Think of it as the beginning of a nuclear war. Read More »

Categorized as: Administration | 2 Comments

Suddenlink Local HD Channels Down?

Posted By: Dennis Whiteman on November 29, 2010

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?

Categorized as: Cable TV, Oklahoma City | 1 Comment

FOX 25 launches Country Music Channel on 25.2

Posted By: fox25eng on November 4, 2010

We’ve just added a County Music channel that will air on 25.2 For now this will be OTA only.

Categorized as: Programming | 4 Comments

KWTV-DT Audio to Go 5.1 Tonight

Posted By: Kevin Sherrard on November 1, 2010

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…

Categorized as: Audio, Oklahoma City, Programming | 6 Comments

KWTV-DT News Goes HD

Posted By: Kevin Sherrard on October 25, 2010

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 corner. Read about it on News9.com…

Update from Dennis: I also received a note via the HDTVOK Twitter account that KOTV channel 6 in Tulsa, another Griffin property, started broadcasting its morning news in HD today.

Here are images from the inaugural broadcast last night. Click on the thumbnails to view full size. What’s particularly cool is that KWTV is the only local station broadcasting local commercials in HD. In addition, KWTV is now broadcasting Seinfeld in HD and probably other syndicated HD programming.

9-intro
9-blitz

9-england
9-mills


The only thing missing from its package is Dolby Digital 5.1 audio, which all the other stations have.

Categorized as: Cable TV, News, Oklahoma City, Sightings, Tulsa | 36 Comments

KWTV-DT 9.3 is Off the Air

Posted By: Dennis Whiteman on October 14, 2010

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 broadcasts.

Apparently, they now think this process is done or perhaps the FCC wants our broadcast spectrum back. Does anyone have more information?

Categorized as: DTV Switchover, Oklahoma City | 2 Comments

How Many Tulsa Stations are Broadcasting News in HD?

Posted By: Dennis Whiteman on October 14, 2010

Yesterday, I noted that KOCO had started broadcasting its news in HD. Other than KJRH Channel 2 and OETA, what Tulsa Stations are broadcasting in HD?

Categorized as: News, Tulsa | 8 Comments

KOCO Channel 5 News Now in Widescreen SD

Posted By: Dennis Whiteman on October 13, 2010

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.

Update: It’s been confirmed that they are broadcasting in widescreen standard definition and not HD. It’s an improvement, but it makes you wonder when all the stations will get on board in high definition. Also, note the cables running outside the 4×3 safe area…

Categorized as: Oklahoma City, Programming | 17 Comments

OKC Thunder Game on ESPN 3D

Posted By: Kevin Sherrard on October 6, 2010

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

Categorized as: 3D, Oklahoma City | 1 Comment

KOCB adds The CoolTV

Posted By: fox25eng on October 4, 2010

We have added a channel to KOCB’s lineup on 34.2 called the CoolTV. For more information see http://www.thecooltv.com/.

Categorized as: Programming | 6 Comments

KFOR overhauling translators

Posted By: ggore on September 15, 2010

KFOR crews are in the process of upgrading all of the translator towers in northwest Oklahoma. First up was the Seiling tower this week, where they removed the old high band and low band VHF antenna arrays and installed new digital transmitters and antennas on the tower. When this week’s redo is complete, the tranlators at Seiling, Mooreland, Gage, and Alva will retransmit digital signals of Oklahoma City TV stations 4, 9, 25, 34, and 43.

Categorized as: Programming | 5 Comments

Cox Adds NFL Red Zone Channel

Posted By: Kevin Sherrard on September 10, 2010

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.

Categorized as: Cable TV, Oklahoma City, Tulsa | 3 Comments

Cox making changes to OnDemand

Posted By: Dennis Whiteman on August 12, 2010

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

KWTV to shut down VHF channel 9 permanently

Posted By: ggore on July 5, 2010

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 9.1 designation till be added to the UHF channel 39 beginning August 16. RF 39 will then be identified as both 9.1 and 9.2 and RF 9 will become 9.3.

Categorized as: Oklahoma City, Programming | 19 Comments

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