CBS moving to new stations in 6 markets on August 1

[N5XZS]

Not too fast!! QVC still on the air on KOAT-DT and showing up on my old Sony showing home shopping stuffs in same old WS 480i...

Wish they would dump QVC and bring up CBS to 1080i if theres any room left.

CBS now on KOAT-DT but in 720p in order to conserve bandwidth digital bitrates.

As for KRQE-DT independent, 13.2 now in 1080i and FOX moved to 13.1 in 720p in a interesting swap video modes around.

 

[comfortably_numb]

As for KRQE-DT independent, 13.2 now in 1080i and FOX moved to 13.1 in 720p

Fox feeds 720p to its affiliates, so that makes sense.

Not sure why QVC is showing "no data" on my HDHR.

 

[Mr Tony]

North Dakota was interesting
KX (the former CBS) added AntennaTV to the .2 or in one case the .1 in Dickinson (the KX stations are 4 former CBS stations. They put CW on the -1 in Dickinson so it had must carry on satellite)
Now in Dickinson and Williston (the far west part of the market) they no longer have CBS OTA. With CBS moving to Forum's ABC affiliates in Bismarck and Minot the far western part of the market has no ABC (hasn't for a long time) and now CBS.
(most people have cable or satellite so they will still get CBS and ABC)

 

[TRG]

Can you scan just the RF channel to update it and nothing else?

Unfortunately, no. Its all or nothing.

 

[Mr Tony]

cable in Western ND put the new CBS on channel 18 in 3 of the 4 "licensed" towns (Bismarck, Minot, Williston)
Dickinson its on 8

 

[lost_mesa]

In Albuquerque I'm getting:
7.1 KOAT-DT. ABC
7.2 Estrella
7.3 TCN
7.4 KOATCBS
7.5 Story
7.6 QVC

13.1 KRQE FOX
13.2 KRQEXTR (currently the same program as 13.1)
13.3 Bounce

 

[Mr Tony]

Rapid City cable (Midco) has the new CBS (KNBN DT2)on channel 9 (KNBN NBC is on 10)

 

[TRG]

Rabbit Ears has already made updates.

 

[Mr Tony]

Rabbit Ears has already made updates.

Not fully. They still say 'soon' based on what we knew earlier in the week and in some cases with CW moving to .1 we didn't know what was replacing it on .2

 

[TRG]

Not fully. They still say 'soon' based on what we knew earlier in the week and in some cases with CW moving to .1 we didn't know what was replacing it on .2

I only care about mine.

 

[comfortably_numb]

Now that KOAT is back up to full power, I was able to get some specs:

KOAT CBS is 1280x720, with a VBR as high as 11mbps.

KOAT ABC remains 1920x1080, also with a VBR as high as 11mbps.

 

[dfergie]

Paramount+ has CBS East in its live guide (not available) instead of KOAT here.

 

[slow_poke_pete]

Correct!

And if I were a bettin' man, I'd say KOAT will boot QVC or True Crime.

Also KQRE will now have at least one open slot once Fox moves to the main .1 feed.

dump QVC there's amazon

 

[comfortably_numb]

Interesting to note that once CBS moved to KOAT here in Albuquerque, it ceased to exist on our ATSC 3.0 beacon. KQRE's .2 subchannel (formerly CBS) remains on RF 36 in ATSC 3.0 as some kind of 24/7 news channel. I had expected KOAT CBS to replace this useless feed.

 

[dfergie]

PQ for KOAT CBS took a big hit for me on all sources...

 

[comfortably_numb]

PQ for KOAT CBS took a big hit for me on all sources...

OTA from the main transmitter on Sandia Crest it's still VBR up to 11mbps... do you have an OTA translator in your area?

 

[N5XZS]

Yep, They are sending in 720p instead of 1080i format.

KOAT-DT, really should dump one or two least popular subchannels and upgrade to 1080i for CBS, to way it meant to be...

 

[dfergie]

OTA from the main transmitter on Sandia Crest it's still VBR up to 11mbps... do you have an OTA translator in your area?

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Not getting any of the networks OTA right now, but haven't spent a lot of time on either.

 

[comfortably_numb]

KOAT-DT, really should dump one or two least popular subchannels

They could dump Story, it's duplicated on RF 12. And nobody would miss QVC.

 

[Mr Tony]

Interesting to note that once CBS moved to KOAT here in Albuquerque, it ceased to exist on our ATSC 3.0 beacon. KQRE's .2 subchannel (formerly CBS) remains on RF 36 in ATSC 3.0 as some kind of 24/7 news channel. I had expected KOAT CBS to replace this useless feed.

It cant due to contracts signed for what would be carried on the ATSC 3.0 station. The other markets where CBS got moved and there is a ATSC 3.0 station in that market CBS isnt carried either.