KCBU split

[SamSpade]

Okay, so channel 45 and channel 58 here in Salt Lake City are both supposed to be translators for Price's KCBU 3, right?

So how is it that one runs English programming (mostly from RTN/Retro TV Network) and the other runs Telefutura? Can translators run one or the other digital programming choices?

Note: I have no idea if KCBU is even broadcasting digital...

[JamesAnderson]

I checked the FCC TV data tonight, found nothing to indicate that either 3 or 32 has a digital paired channel, or a DTV application for either.

There's a window comng up for translators to elect for either flash-cut or paired channels. That will take place in May, so K45GX will be having to do that soon. We will see the same with KEJT-LP/KULX-CA and KSVN-CA and any other translator fry they have.

There's some other weirdness as well. With KBCJ 6 Vernal trying to move to Santaquin. Daystar (religious, as Community Television Educatiors) trying for allotments in Ogden and Salt Lake, Logan, and for new allotments as well, in case they lose the comparatives that are still pending on *26 and others. Channel *18 in Ogden is another.

24 does not have a paired DTV channel either so when they do they will flash-cut.

[x]

KCBU/3 has a digital allocation, also on channel 3. I'm not sure how they can do that. I thought all stations had to have their digital's on a few years ago.

That doesn't explain where the other programming is coming from. I know on one TV listing service, it shows old TV shows sometimes. It's also listed as -DT in the listings. Is it possible that the channel 3 main already did the flash cut and is being used primarily to feed translators?

[JamesAnderson]

I didn't see a digital thing on the FCC database.

The controversial matter of Channel *39 in Phoenix involves a nonpaired channel that will have to flash-cut. Not everyone got, or elected, a paired channel. This may be the case with KCBU 3. KUES and KUEW never got pairs, so they are both digital without analog service, but that is being provided still by some old translators in both Richfield and St. George.

[x]

See www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?list=0&facid=84277

The first listing is the licensed NTSC station. The second is the licensed digital station. The third is an application for increased power for the NTSC version.

I know that with mapping, a DTV box can be told to show whatever you want as the channel number regardless of the actual channel number that the station is broadcasting on. Do most boxes have the capability of showing the actual channel number that's being received as well?

[Terry]

"Do most boxes have the capability of showing the actual channel number that's being received as well?"

Mine does, but I have to look in the menu system to find them.