Try a phone call to the local stations or an email. Some stations are received OTA and some are linked by fiber.
Locals are typically combined at a TV station and then distributed to the satellite provider. In the Dayton OH market, this is done at the local CBS station for both Dish and Directv. I doubt that this is an unusual arrangement.and I am fairly certain that most of the locals are picked up from antennas on the top of their building.
Must have relinquished their tower lease.The above link about Pioneer PBS is interesting. I plan on attending the next KRWG member's coffee shop hour in Las Cruces and will ask them then. I would also like to encourage them to find a way to get their OTA signal into east El Paso. Back in the analog days they used a tall tower between Las Cruces and Deming, NM and it could be received in most of El Paso with a little effort. When they went digital they just broadcast off of a small mountain near campus and it is only available on the west side of El Paso.
and then in Gilbert about 10 or 15 miles away there is the Echostsr uplink facility.
I didn't know that was the name of it, but back when i was in high school, my friends mom was the security guard there so we went walking around regularly. My first experience with satellite tech and I was hooked.On North Dish Drive, I have seen it on our many trips to Scottsdale/Chandler area..
Must have relinquished their tower lease.
Yes, I am sure the New Mexico legislators are not interested in footing the bill to provide service into Texas. This was one of my deciding factors in getting satellite TV.Unfortunately, KRWG is probably not that interested in covering more area.
In my market, Direct gets one channel via fiber. The rest are all picked up OTA. Dish gets all of them OTA. Dish & Direct receive sites are at two different locations in town.DirecTV wants any major market station that they pay retransmission for to be delivered by fiber (but they want the station to pay for it).
Right. That's why you call the affiliate itself, not the MVPD. Our TW has fiber connectivity to all stations (but they have fiber throughout the county), with OTA as a backup.Some stations won't admit how it's done as if it's some sort of "security" thing. I had actually spoke to the head engineer at the local Time Warner once and he told me that they get the local channels by fiber, antenna, and one other method that I don't recall (microwave maybe ?). I asked which use what method and he said he "shouldn't say".
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