sklej
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Post by sklej on Feb 17, 2008 14:54:16 GMT -5
Anyone else having issues with WXTX dropping on them? I had this problem over a year ago, but was great until about 2 weeks ago now-Super Bowl was fine. I will have a signal of 95 to 98, then it will just drop to 41. Other channels appear fine. It's especially frustrating on Daytona 500 day! I'm going to have to watch on cable (when Kurt isn't interrupting for useless weather updates).
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Bill
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Post by Bill on Feb 17, 2008 15:00:27 GMT -5
It's not a drop out per say. I called WXTX (WTVM) and they are required to post the severe weather stuff when it's in the viewing area. What I don't understand, when the weather guy came on the air, he said the severe stuff wasn't even in our area and not yet reached Montgomery. I can understand they need to notify people when needed, but the HD signal doesn't even go more than 35-40 miles or so. So the people in the counties that might have bad weather won't be watch this station in HD anyway. So, I say show the Daytona 500 in HD, and besides, most viewers will most likely tune in to the Weather Channel anyway !!  |
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Post by Mike Slade on Feb 17, 2008 19:47:09 GMT -5
Here recently I've had WXTX drop completely out and I've had to switch over to the cable HD to watch. It's only happened twice and once was only for a short period so I don't know what the cause was. The first time it happened it was gone for a couple of hours. Didn't check the signal either time though
About the weather updates, I asked the engineer the other day about the on screen graphics that cause us to lose HD. WXTX/WTVM has just started doing that. He said it was an upper management call. Sounded like he would rather just keep it like it was and only put the weather updates on the analog. He said it would probably be a year or two before they had the capability for HD graphics.
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