Recent content by Joe Moll

Today MT PBS officially switches to S2. There's a news release on MT PBS website explaining the new satellite frequency that they are going to be using. Joe

TV MT switched from KU to Cband. I don't know what satellite it is on at this time.

This is the second time that MAX media is trying to buy these stations. The FCC said no because you can't have two stations in the same market. The CW stations in Montana are secondary digital stations. If the FCC does approve the sale to MAX media, then the FOX stations in Montana...

Stimulus money to be used for PBS The MT legislature decided to use some of the stimulus money MT got to use for funding of MT PBS satellite service. The bill number is HBO 645. Tomorrow, it goes to the lower house for second reading. We will see tomorrow if it manages to...

MT PBS was getting funding from the state of Montana for their satellite uplink service. Due to budget crisis, the state legislature just cut MT PBS funding out of the budget. The state was paying $200,000 a year for the uplink service. On July 1, 2009, MT PBS will have to figure...

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The NBC station is a low power station. It is not a low translator station because it shows local commercials.

The number you are refering to is not an accurate number. In the television market I live in, there are 60 translators that retranslate my local CBS station. The local ABC station has about 60 translators. In Sunday's paper in Great Falls, MT, there was an article about the low...

In Montana, there are over 500 translators. It will take about 3 years for the translators to be converted over to digital in Montana. Also, the feed goes to small cable systems in Montana. The small cable systems are exempt from FCC digital cable regulations.

Mt PBS satellite services is the service is the feed for translators throughout MT. Translators are not going digital in February. They will be analog until at least 2012. Montana PBS has to keep their satellite feed standard definition until 2012. The HD feed will be using a...

I,m picking up the Montana legislature channel right now on AMC 21. It might be on a spot beam to Montana only. If anyone else outside Montana can pick up the signal outside the state of Montana, please let me know.

Montana PBS has a secondary channel that shows the Montana state legislature. It will be on for the next four months, or, till the legislature adjourns. 11958H2532 V33 A38 PCR33 Montana PBS puts this channel up so the people of Montana can see the legislature and...

The FOX stations in Montana are all on sale for $200,000. There is no studio site for them, and they have no digital transmitters.:tux::mad:

The Retro and Fox channels on Galaxy 18 are gone. The signal is not there. Channel 26 here in Great Falls has the words "no signal". Iff anyone knows what happened, I would like to know. Thank you

All the PBS channels on AMC 3 have been mirrored on AMC 21 and they are using the exact same frequencies.