Director's Cut Blog with Frank Macek

CLEVELAND -- WKYC has experienced reception issues with our digital channel. If you are having reception problems with digital you can continue to use the analog signal until the cut-off date. Our digital channel is transmitted on VHF channel 2 just below our analog. Our main problems are with rabbit ears and interference generated from power lines and electrical noise. Because of their small size, the rabbit ears do not work very well on channel 2 and do not always provide enough signal to the set. The electrical noise interference is a problem inherent to the low VHF channels and can be seen as white dots or lines in the analog picture. While you can watch a picture with snow, lines, or ghosts in analog, the digital sets cannot deal with these issues very well and have problems decoding a picture. We are working to complete the installation of equipment so that in February we can move to a UHF channel and overcome the issues we are currently experiencing. While the winter weather mak...

On Tuesday, April 29th, DTV specialist Jon Gensel stopped by the WKYC Digital Broadcast Center to discuss a little about television's transition to all digital broadcasting by February 17, 2009, on Good Company Today , our weekday morning show at 10 a.m. If you are still a little uncertain about what to expect, please take a moment and watch the interview to learn more. We also have a complete section here on the blog about DTV: CLICK HERE VIDEO FEATURE: *To watch Jon discuss DTV: CLICK HERE

With the transition of television from analog to digital only a year away, many of you have questions about how all this will work. We're here to take you through it step by step. The Director's Cut Blog , WKYC.COM and Gannett Broadasting have put together a useful guide that will help you better understand what the transition means for you and how it will work. It's an excellent resource you will want to check out and let others know about. ---->>CLICK HERE FOR ACCESS