We're still "on hiatus", as it were, but we want to bring out some items we don't want to get moldy.OK, maybe this wasn't as "quick" as we thought...TV CHANGE: Cleveland Classic Media's Tim Lones gives us a heads up on the future of WOAC/67 Canton, the infomercial outlet being sold out of the bankruptcy case of Multicultural Broadcasting's TV division.And there is no future - for either the WOAC call letters, or, apparently, the old channel number 67.Incoming owner Tri-State Christian Television … [Read more...]
ODTV: Sorting Through The WJW Mess
Posted on June 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Yes, we were a bit harsh in yesterday's item, explaining the "lack of power" out of Local TV Fox affiliate WJW/8's new digital transmitter...which was believed to be running at 30 kW, but is actually only putting out 11 kW, based on our research of FCC filings.Read more at our Ohio Digital TV blog... … [Read more...]
ODTV: WJW Power Mystery Solved?
Posted on June 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment
(This is a full reprint of an item posted on our Ohio Digital TV blog.)The biggest post-DTV transition story in Northeast Ohio is the surprisingly anemic performance of WJW/8 "Fox 8"'s new signal on VHF channel 8, its old analog channel.As it turns out, the signal may be less powerful than pretty much everyone thought, including us, and WJW's digital channel 8 appears to be operating not at the approved post-transition power level of 30 kW, but at 11 kW instead.Yes, you read that right.It took … [Read more...]
ODTV: ODTV Followup Monday
Posted on June 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment
We're sorting out what's left after Friday's end of full-power analog TV service, and even correcting ourselves once or twice...Read more at our Ohio Digital TV blog, including VIDEO of a local station's DTV switch... … [Read more...]
Monday’s Very Mixed Bag
Posted on June 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment
We've been hanging onto some items for a while, since we were swept up in the Digital TV Conversion wave starting on Friday. (We do still have some ODTV follow up items, which we'll put on that blog later today.)AN SDV UPDATE: Though nearly all of the Time Warner Cable Northeast Ohio monolith is now "Switched Digital Video" (SDV) capable, there are small pockets that have not yet taken the new technology.OMW hears that will change, soon, with the SDV rollout "scheduled to be completed" by this … [Read more...]
ODTV: Cleveland Digital TV Transition Awards
Posted on June 13, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Welcome, to our first Cleveland Digital TV Transition Awards!Here are our own "winners and losers" from the day analog, full-power TV went away in Ohio's largest TV market, and our primary coverage area:MOST IMPROVED: A tie between two occupants of that new antenna tower on Broadview Road in Parma, WKYC-DT (RF 17) and WVIZ-DT (RF 26).You could make a case for either to be the ultimate winner, but it's basically a tie due to their cooperative work and co-location.With the new facility replacing … [Read more...]
ODTV: Almost Done
Posted on June 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment
At this writing, the end of full-power analog TV in Northeast Ohio is nearly complete.Only the analog signals of WKYC/3 (NBC), WVIZ/25 (PBS), WNEO/49 (PBS) and WQHS/61 (Univision) remain, and the last three will be gone before midnight tonight. WKYC's "nightlight" DTV information loop will continue through June 26th...the station having taken all entertainment and news programming off of analog 3 at 10 AM.Over in the Mahoning Valley, only the analog signal of WFMJ/21 (NBC) is still on the air … [Read more...]
ODTV: Cleveland Switch: First Impression
Posted on June 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The first wave of analog shutoffs in the Cleveland/Akron TV market happened, as planned, at 10 AM this morning.And here at the OMW World Headquarters somewhere in western or northern Summit County, it's mostly good. Mostly.Analog signals for the following stations are no longer broadcasting: WEWS/5 (ABC), WJW/8 (Fox), WOIO/19 (CBS), WVPX/23 (ION), WUAB/43 (MyNetwork TV) and WBNX/55 (CW).WKYC/3 analog (NBC) is airing the expected DTV information-only "nightlight" video loop, with video and text … [Read more...]
No, Dick Goddard Isn’t Retiring
Posted on June 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment
UPDATE 10:52 AM 6/12/09: A Friend of OMW tells us that the Plain Dealer's Julie Washington is "still in the building", just not this week...she's on vacation...--------In a normal OMW news cycle, putting the words "Dick Goddard" and "retirement" in the same sentence would warrant four-star ALL CAPS BREAKING NEWS! BREAKING NEWS! alerts.Even if that retirement isn't happening.But since we have been pre-occupied with the digital television transition the past few days, and since we haven't … [Read more...]
ODTV: Nightlight
Posted on June 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment
We've been saying it for a long time...Gannett NBC affiliate WKYC/3 in Cleveland will keep analog channel 3 going an extra two weeks longer than any local station.Instead of finding WKYC's local news or NBC's entertainment programming there, though, you'll find rather boring programming on the soon-to-be-former home of WKYC itself.Read the details on our Ohio Digital TV blog... … [Read more...]
