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Had us over the air, then lost us? There's a reason

By Frank Macek We have gotten many phone calls and emails from those of you who live in our outlying areas of northeast Ohio wondering why you've suddenly lost WKYC using their over the air antenna. This coming after we asked you to rescan your television sets last Friday. WKYC Technical Engineers Randy Betke & Chris Rieithmiller  firing up the new transmitter in Parma on August 2nd, 2019 The good news is this is temporary. On August 2nd, WKYC made the transition to a new digital channel with a brand new transmitter as part of an FCC mandate following a spectrum auction that allowed television stations to give up their channels or move to new ones. As of Friday, the now "virtual" Channel 3 moved from digital channel 17 to digital channel 19 and this is when you would have likely lost us if you use an over the air antenna and live in an outlying area away from Cleveland. During this transition phase, we are using a side mount antenna on the main tower...