THIS TV OTA IN KANSAS CITY

[neil_kc1]

March 3rd Kansas City got it's first real multicast channelover the air channel. Channel 29-2 is now THIS TV KANSAS CITY.

 

[jphillips08]

I like it during the day when there is nothing else but soap opera's.

 

[CowboyDren]

Can you define multicast for me?

 

[neil_kc1]

Multi-cast as I understand it is : stations moving from analogue to digital are freeing up bandwidth and now have the capability of broadcasting multiple streams on the same channel. In Kansas City our ION statioin broadcast 1 channel analogue until the change over but is already broadcasting 4 different streams or different digital channels. I have heard most channels will be able to broadcast from 4 to 6 different channels. So our local CW station, channel 29 is broadcasting 29.1 which is CW programing and 29.2 which is THIS TV.
Some one else may be able to give a more technical answer. I understand that KCTV 5 in Kansas City will be broadcasting the .2 (dot2 network) sometime after April.

 

[CowboyDren]

All I know is that 2PM on a Monday, I already had three channels called "9.x", four KCPTs, five KTAJs, two KSHBs, and four IONs. I can't imagine 16 and 50 having the money to license nine frequencies between them, and considering the UGLY picture on 16(*5), I just assumed that these stations were already multicasting.

 

[Jim5506]

All channels for each station are on one carrier - one frequency.

With SD they can pack 5-6 digital "channels" on one frequency.

We have one frequency with two 720p and one 480p channel on it.

 

[Mr Tony]

neil hit it pretty much right. They're also called subchannels

Here in Minneapolis the only ones with subchannels are PBS & Ion...all network owned Ion stations have 4 channels (Ion, Qubo, IonLife & Worship)

 

[CowboyDren]

March 3rd Kansas City got it's first real multicast channelover the air channel. Channel 29-2 is now THIS TV KANSAS CITY.

That's the statement that triggered me. We've had multicast, as I previously and still understand it, in KC for years.