Is anyone else starting to lose some LPTV stations?

[bandersen]

Originally Posted by mwplefty

Bob, living closer to the city, don't (or didn't) you receive about 6 or 7 low-power stations at one time or another (6 on UHF, 1 on VHF)? In most of the suburbs, we only get (or got) about 3: WCIU, the Korean Channel, and MeToo. When I tested my grandmother's 1979 RCA with the rabbit ears in November, she only got those 3 channels despite living pretty close to the city.

Yes, in addition to the stations you mentioned, I can also pick up a home shopping network and some religions programming. The last time I checked was a couple months ago.

[Jeffhs]

The last time I checked around here, about a year ago, I could only get on my living-room TV, with rabbit ears, one translator station on channel 51 (W51BI in Kirtland, Ohio, near Cleveland; may be a translator or booster for an OTA affiliate of the Trinity Broadcasting Network), and the reception wasn't that good. I don't know if that station is still around or not.

The FCC will be requiring even LPTV and translator stations in the US to convert to DTV by, IIRC, next year or 2012; not sure just when. Canada's DTV transition is set for 2012, and I read here recently that Mexico's TV stations will be all digital by 2015 at the latest.

[mwplefty]

Originally Posted by Jeffhs

The last time I checked around here, about a year ago, I could only get on my living-room TV, with rabbit ears, one translator station on channel 51 (W51BI in Kirtland, Ohio, near Cleveland; may be a translator or booster for an OTA affiliate of the Trinity Broadcasting Network), and the reception wasn't that good. I don't know if that station is still around or not.

The FCC will be requiring even LPTV and translator stations in the US to convert to DTV by, IIRC, next year or 2012; not sure just when. Canada's DTV transition is set for 2012, and I read here recently that Mexico's TV stations will be all digital by 2015 at the latest.

I didn't know that LPTV stations were REQUIRED to convert to digital by 2012. I thought that there wasn't a specific year. All I know is that cable companies are required to still broadcast local cable channels in analog until 2012 by the FCC.