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Claude Greiner said:
Yeah. Apparently Mobile Alabama is 3 weeks out on new Comcast installs thanks to death star
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Three letters, S, E, C

Nexstar owns WKRG-CBS in Mobile.

I bet Dish and Charter are busy in the Birmingham market, as WIAT-CBS is blacked out as well.

I’m in the Birmingham market, but could care less, not a football fan, however, I can get WIAT with the AllAccess app.


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texasbrit said:
I have a CM4228 which has pretty good VHF reception.Once you get north of Plano if you are in any sort of dip it gets very iffy. Look at antennaweb ifyou don't believe me.
And many people in this area just buy a UHF antenna and get nothing on VHF.
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I think I see the problem. That is a multi-directional antenna which you should not need in that area. It's going to pickup many reflections of the signal thus causing interference. Unless you live in the middle of the city where the towers are in many different directions hardly anyone should ever need a multi-directional antenna.

Get a directional antenna like HDTV VHF High Band & UHF Digital Outdoor TV Antenna-Channel Master CM2016 (CM2016) or the 60 and I'm sure you'll pick it up. As far as I am aware Multi-Directional are only good for LOS (Line of Sight) signals. You need the directional for 1Edge and 2Edge diffraction signals. Also, use a pre-amp if your coax run is more than 10 feet.

I've gotten 80 channels 100 miles from Dallas with my large directional antenna up a 25 ft pole with a amp.
 
Claude Greiner said:
Yeah. Apparently Mobile Alabama is 3 weeks out on new Comcast installs thanks to death star
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For that DMA I wouldn't place all the blame on the death star the hopper *cough* Dish *cough* is also partly to blame with their Meredith dispute so the local cable provider is really the only one that has all the locals in that area at this point.

I still get a kick out of Meredith's WALA's website promoting DirecTV as a viable alternative to Dish while Nexstar's WKRG is promoting Dish as a viable alternative to DirecTV. If both stations were about really "supporting" local TV then they would not support either satellite company ROFL.
 
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TheTechGuru said:
I think I see the problem. That is a multi-directional antenna which you should not need in that area. It's going to pickup many reflections of the signal thus causing interference. Unless you live in the middle of the city where the towers are in many different directions hardly anyone should ever need a multi-directional antenna.

Get a directional antenna like HDTV VHF High Band & UHF Digital Outdoor TV Antenna-Channel Master CM2016 (CM2016) or the 60 and I'm sure you'll pick it up. As far as I am aware Multi-Directional are only good for LOS (Line of Sight) signals. You need the directional for 1Edge and 2Edge diffraction signals. Also, use a pre-amp if your coax run is more than 10 feet.

I've gotten 80 channels 100 miles from Dallas with my large directional antenna up a 25 ft pole with a amp.
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No, it's not a multidirectional antenna. Testing shows about 15 degrees, regardless of what the ads say.. And I am not getting any interference, there's virtually no multipath here.
Also that's bad advice on the preamp. For 10ft of coax you should not be using a preamp.
People north of me (up to Sherman) reported getting pretty well zero signal on channel 8 even with a really large array, although these reports are a couple of years old and channel 8 might have increased its power since then.
 
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bobvick said:
Three letters, S, E, C

Nexstar owns WKRG-CBS in Mobile.
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CBS did not renew its side contract for games in the first two weeks of the season. The first SEC game of the week is Alabama @ South Carolina on September 14th.

Jimbo said:
Hey guys, whats your opinion ?

IF Nextstar and ATT don't agree to a deal before the NFL starts ...
Does this dispute affect the Sunday Ticket package at all ?

I understand, if your in a dispute area, you still won't see the games that would be on your CBS, thats understandable ...

However, say the Bears for example (I don't know the list of cities involved, but we'll say Chicago is one), game is scheduled for CBS, outside of the Chicago area, it should be on the ST regardless of dispute status. right ?
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Whatever games are on your local CBS or Fox are NOT included on NFLST, period. So, to use your Bears example, in Week 4, the Vikings are at the Bears on CBS. This game is likely to be on 95% of CBS stations, and will NOT be on NFLST in the market of EVERY station carrying that game. You will have to watch it on the local station. The fact that the local station is or is not available due to a retrans dispute is irrelevant.

However, whatever games are on your local stations are streamed on the NFL app. I watched the CBS games during the pre-season on my phone with the NFL app.
 
Was shocked to click over and actually see Wheel of Fortune and not bumper music. They were still out a few hours ago.
 
TheTechGuru said:
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Right on a holiday! How am I supposed to watch the Macy's 4th now? I can't go put a OTA tower up in this short amount of time. How f****** inconsiderate.

I guess I need to "move" back to the San Antonio market. I never lost a major network in 6 years there.
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NBC/MNT have returned!
 
texasbrit said:
No, it's not a multidirectional antenna. Testing shows about 15 degrees, regardless of what the ads say.. And I am not getting any interference, there's virtually no multipath here.
Also that's bad advice on the preamp. For 10ft of coax you should not be using a preamp.
People north of me (up to Sherman) reported getting pretty well zero signal on channel 8 even with a really large array, although these reports are a couple of years old and channel 8 might have increased its power since then.
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I said "over" 10 feet and that is also with the assumption that others are like myself and split the signal to every TV in the house. I run a 25 ft run from the antenna to a +10db amp then to a 4 way splitter at -7db at each tap.

I find it odd that I've been able to pick up WFAA in pinker areas than your purple area, tt has to be the antenna design, those flat panels are not very good for VHF...

I assume you've looked at this map? TV Fool

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SamCdbs said:
Local TV should be free.
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Um...it is...

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People pay for it out of laziness and/or ignorance. There are literally people that think if you get CBS free with some rabbit ears that you are somehow "stealing" it! :confused:

All pay TV providers need to offer a option to opt-out of local channel service.
 
Don in CT said:
Notice the deal happened right before college football this weekend.
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also the deal was reach right as Florida is bracing for Hurricane Dorian this weekend in early next week. Nexstar owns WFLA & WTTA in the Tampa Bay area, WKRG & WFNA in the Pensacola/Mobile, AL area, and WMBB in Panama City area so i figure this hurricane may had played a role in the dispute getting resolved and the channels being restored.
 
Don in CT said:
So what side won, since we will never officially see the details of the deal.
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Both sides likely lost.

AT&T lost thousands of customers, the channels lost their revenue for 3 months.

I can probably say there was an increase, but not very much. When channels go down for months, the content provider likely didn’t gain anything.

Where as if the channel went down for a few days the content provider won.
 

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