Oklahoma City HD locals active today!!!!

[UPEngineer]

I called Directv to order a new receiver and asked when the OKC HD channels would be available in HD.

She looked and said they have two available as of today 04/18.

Reluctant, I went to the directv website and put in my zipcode and low and behold, ABC and FOX are showing available in HD.

So I went to my dad's house cause he has the MPEG4 system and sure enough they were there!

The CSR said the other ones were coming but could not give me a date.

Thought you might want to know.

 

[Caeboy]

Confermed

I called Directv to order a new receiver and asked when the OKC HD channels would be available in HD.

She looked and said they have two available as of today 04/18.

Reluctant, I went to the directv website and put in my zipcode and low and behold, ABC and FOX are showing available in HD.

So I went to my dad's house cause he has the MPEG4 system and sure enough they were there!

The CSR said the other ones were coming but could not give me a date.

Thought you might want to know.

I just Checked my HR-20-700 and indeed ABC and Fox are now in HD.

By the way if you have a Favorites list selected you will need to add the channels to the list. Even the SD channels disappeared.

 

[mdonnelly]

How odd! Those are the two HD locals that Cox doesn't show. Sounds like a conspiracy. Maybe they want you to sub to both.

 

[UPEngineer]

How odd! Those are the two HD locals that Cox doesn't show. Sounds like a conspiracy. Maybe they want you to sub to both.

You know I was actually wary about this because of that fact. I figured if Cox couldnt reach an agreement neither would Directv.

However, I figured KFOR and KWTV would already have an agreement in place (they may already and may have technical difficulties).

I am glad KOCO is available cause I cant pull it in with an antenna because they chose to use channel 7 as there digiatal station and I live smack dab in between OKC and Lawton and Lawton's ABC is analog channel 7 so they have to reduce the power to the SW to keep from conflicting.

 

[UPEngineer]

I just Checked my HR-20-700 and indeed ABC and Fox are now in HD.

By the way if you have a Favorites list selected you will need to add the channels to the list. Even the SD channels disappeared.

Yeah I finally figured that out. Took me a while to see what my dad had done and why none of his SD locals were showing in the guide either.

Thanks for the heads up!

 

[epauladams]

Strange, I just put my Hollis, ok zip in 73550, no hd available. I am in the OKC DMA.

 

[Newshawk]

Strange, I just put my Hollis, ok zip in 73550, no hd available. I am in the OKC DMA.

It appears that although your Zip code is in the OKC SD LiL area, it is outside of the HD LiL spot beam.

 

[mdonnelly]

Strange, I just put my Hollis, ok zip in 73550, no hd available. I am in the OKC DMA.

It seems that to get these, you'll need the 5-LNB dish.

 

[epauladams]

It seems that to get these, you'll need the 5-LNB dish.

I have a dishnetwork account now, but was with Directv for years before. I just like to keep up with the news. I am going back to Directv's site and try some other zipcodes.

 

[mdonnelly]

I have a dishnetwork account now, but was with Directv for years before. I just like to keep up with the news. I am going back to Directv's site and try some other zipcodes.

Holy cr*p. Hollis may be too far away from the center of the beam. I was thinking Hobart.

 

[epauladams]

Holy cr*p. Hollis may be too far away from the center of the beam. I was thinking Hobart.

Well here is how it goes in my part of the state:

Mangum -no hd
Carter - no hd
Elk City - no hd
Clinton - yes 2 channels available

 

[epauladams]

Holy cr*p. Hollis may be too far away from the center of the beam. I was thinking Hobart.

Hobart - hd yes, 2 channels

Woodward - no
Enid - yes
Blackwell - yes
watonga - yes

The folks in western okla. will not be pleased.

 

[mdonnelly]

Dish added all the HD local today for Oklahoma City.

I'd like to believe that, but it's not in today's uplink report.

 

[epauladams]

Dish added all the HD local today for Oklahoma City.

Cool, now when I get my replacement VIP-622 (lightning strike yesterday) I can try them out.

 

[ScoBuck]

Dish added all the HD local today for Oklahoma City.

Possibly people in the DISH forum might be more interested in that info.

 

[roachxp]

Opps wrong city and wrong post

 

[Beavis]

Griffin owns one of the holdout OKC stations, and the lone holdout station in Tulsa (CBS). Hopefully by football season they'll be lit.

 

[epauladams]

I have been informed by a subscriber in Mangum that he can pick up the OKC HD channels, that means at least Carter should be able to also Elk City. May be a Directv database error.

 

[moonman]

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=127160&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=986897&highlight=

 

[chrisacutler]

2 of the big 4 are up. ABC and FOX. I was expecting CBS not be up due to Griffin owning the channels and the Tulsa channel not being up but what is the story on KFOR (NBC)?