WPIX New York question

[Bobby]

The Superstations are available in SD only unless you happen to live in that local area and then you can get that particular station in HD. So, if they continued to allow them for all subs, first, bluegras would be screaming for them to be HD and that would follow with the rest of the subs demanding the same thing. I don't think they want to waste HD transponder space for the limited subs....

 

[Peter Parker]

NY guess is that the local CW stations see them as less of a threat/alternative if they are SD only. After all locals can ask for syndex for any duplicated programming.

 

[renegade734]

The Superstations are available in SD only unless you happen to live in that local area and then you can get that particular station in HD. So, if they continued to allow them for all subs, first, bluegras would be screaming for them to be HD and that would follow with the rest of the subs demanding the same thing. I don't think they want to waste HD transponder space for the limited subs....

I would also like the Superstations to be in HD, but I think the recent transition to widescreen SD is a fair compromise.

 

[comfortably_numb]

No more WPIX 919 in my guide. Used to get it in my DMA. Not sure what has changed.

 

[Tampa8]

No more WPIX 919 in my guide. Used to get it in my DMA. Not sure what has changed.

Did you get a CW station in your DMA - or did DISH start to carry one from your DMA?

 

[comfortably_numb]

Did you get a CW station in your DMA - or did DISH start to carry one from your DMA?

Not that I'm aware of. There's a cable-only fictitious station called KSXF which broadcasts CW, but it isn't OTA and has had this arrangement for years

 

[Tampa8]

Not that I'm aware of. There's a cable-only fictitious station called KSXF which broadcasts CW, but it isn't OTA and has had this arrangement for years

If you don't see one in your guide go to the DISH site and put in your zip see if they show a CW.

Local TV Channels & Programming | DISH

 

[comfortably_numb]

If you don't see one in your guide go to the DISH site and put in your zip see if they show a CW.

Local TV Channels & Programming | DISH

Doesn't show one

 

[Tampa8]

Not sure what else it is. Wonder if anyone else in other markets that had it lost it.....

 

[comfortably_numb]

Wonder if anyone else in other markets that had it lost it.....

Definitely. Can anybody else here who has (or had) WPIX in a non-CW market chime in?

 

[Tampa8]

BUMP. Inquiring minds want to know.....

 

[comfortably_numb]

BUMP. Inquiring minds want to know.....

I'm currently "moved" to St. Louis while the KFJX dispute rolls on. Once it ends, and I move back, it will be interesting to see if WPIX comes back (or not).

 

[comfortably_numb]

WPIX is back. Or at least it is for me. I "moved" back to Joplin last night and didn't see the channel in the guide, so I emailed Dish this morning. Brian in the Denver corporate office called and remoted in to the receiver. After verifying that the channel was missing, he sent a hit to the box and then and it reappeared. Now THAT is what I call excellent customer service!!

 

[Tampa8]

Good news for you and anyone who has it.

 

[comfortably_numb]

Good news for you and anyone who has it.

Yep. Sounds like it was just an authorization issue