Friday, February 01, 2008

From the Mailbag: HDTV Broadcasting

From: Bob in Canton

Q: Just looked at your website and saw that several people complained about not getting good reception on your HD TV broadcast channel. I live in Canton, Ohio and just got a new Panasonic TV a few days ago and was pleasantly surprised to find that not only could I get an excellent TV picture in HD, but also got your other news and weather channel.

As a matter of curiosity, what frequencies are your HDTV stations being broadcasted on? I can't seem to find a good reference to HD frequencies for the Cleveland area. Keep up the good work!

A: Hi Bob.. thanks for your comments. People have complaints mainly because they are receiving our signals via cable and sometimes the quality is being lost in the process. Others have been upset by our digital signal not getting out far enough to be received over the air. That's why we are working on an upgrade to move to digital channel 17 by February 17, 2009. This will greatly increase our coverage area.

As to you 2nd question, we are broadcasting our WKYC HD on digital 3.1 and Weather Plus on digital 3.2

I have a basic guide to Cleveland's local digital channel assignments at the following link: CLICK HERE

You can email your questions to me: fmacek@wkyc.com