mdeatherage
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At 9:00 PM tonight, and I think sweeps have started:
* KFOR-DT has dropped a new episode of Law & Order on 4-1 into standard definition to put a weather map in the corner.
* According to weather radar on 5-2, there are no severe storms in the STATE of Oklahoma. One outside of KFOR-DT’s broadcast area moved into Kansas before Law & Order started. Most of Western Oklahoma is in a Tornado Watch, but again, no storms on radar.
* The 24/7 full-time digital weather channel from KFOR, 4-2, is showing reruns of the 5:00 PM weather segment from the KFOR news, with absolutely no severe storms coverage.
So, for the seven hundredth or so time, KFOR is not showing HDTV so it can impose a map of severe storms that don’t exist in the broadcast area, while the ENTIRE CHANNEL that KFOR has devoted to weather has absolutely nothing about the current weather situation at all.
Please use this topic to post your own observations of KFOR-DT being the Least Competent HDTV Station In The World.
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mdeatherage
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…at 9:56 PM, just as Law & Order got to the verdict, KFOR took the map of “no weather in the state” down, but didn’t switch back to HD.
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MWB
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Thursday night: Tiny storms north and east of the metro. “My Name is Earl” begins in HD, but is dropped into SD mid-way into the episode, to put up the weather map. It remains that way the rest of the episode.
“The Office” starts at 7:35 or so, also in SD with the weather map. About ten minutes in, the weather map disappears, but (surprise!) the rest of the episode is left in SD, for no apparent reason. Meanwhile, the other stations are broadcasting their programming in HD, as was intended.
I believe that 4-1 was in SD for the rest of the evening–Leno and Conan included.
Later, I fired off a note to “The Rant” about their dismal treatment of HD programming, not expecting any sort of reply, and that’s exactly what I got: Nothing. Is there a better, more immediate way to contact these idiots?
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timfick
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One thing I don’t understand, and someone please explain it to me if there is a reason why, is why don’t these local stations use their subchannels to send the normal HD content in the event they need to cut into programming to warn us about weather?
In other words, if Mike Morgan has to cut in for 2 hours to tell us about a tornado passing through Guymon, and I live in Oklahoma City so I don’t really care, it would be nice to switch over to channel 4-3 so I could watch my normal program. Is there a reason they can’t do this? Or why can’t they regionalize their programming so that people in OKC don’t get their shows preempted when there’s a tornado in the panhandle?
I really don’t know the answers to these questions and if someone does, please let me know because it is extremely frustrating.
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zenithtv
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Thanks to Kten HD No weather map thurday or friday night full HD!
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zenithtv
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SD Crap on kfor mon night 10 mins after the night show started. Full HD on kten HD.
Get your crap together KFOR.
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MWB
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No HD at all on KFOR last night, thanks to some storms that rolled in (and out) of the metro around the five-o’clock hour. This included an episode of Law and Order at nine, as well as Leno and Conan.
Seriously–will someone please check on the HD monkey at Channel Four?
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zenithtv
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have a antenna kten was in full hd friday
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