Fall 2009 HD Local HD Launches

[Ramy]

Is Huntington/Charleston, WV still getting their locals Wednesday?

 

[jcrandall]

Last I head, that is their plan. Should be a couple markets Wed.

 

[dsparks0014]

Anyone know about the Beckley/Bluefield area. I seen where they are also slated for Sept 09 and I just got my Directv hooked up this evening.

 

[Ramy]

Four locals for Huntington/Charleston, WV are up and running as well as one PBS, unfortunetly that is all that went up.

 

[Bama76]

Huntsville

ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, CW, APT/PBS all went HD for the Huntsville, AL market this morning.

 

[raoul5788]

Four locals for Huntington/Charleston, WV are up and running as well as one PBS, unfortunetly that is all that went up.

So Satelliteracer had it right then! Glad you got your hd locals.

 

[meldar_b]

since Huntington/Charleston, WV went live today do we (the ones that have the DNS HD Channels) still get to keep those dns HD channels also?

 

[raoul5788]

since Huntington/Charleston, WV went live today do we (the ones that have the DNS HD Channels) still get to keep those dns HD channels also?

They will go away eventually.

 

[Ramy]

since Huntington/Charleston, WV went live today do we (the ones that have the DNS HD Channels) still get to keep those dns HD channels also?

They will go away eventually.

raoul is right unfortunetly.

 

[JosephB]

ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, CW, APT/PBS all went HD for the Huntsville, AL market this morning.

Did they put APT/PBS in HD in Birmingham too? I'm not home to check

 

[bgothard72]

Did they put APT/PBS in HD in Birmingham too? I'm not home to check

 

[cybok0]

Of course no PBS or CW for Pittsburgh.

 

[bamaweather]

New HD locals markets announced for later in the fall:

For November 2009:
Bismarck/Minot/Dickinson ND
Sherman TX/Ada OK
Missoula MT
Marquette MI


DIRECTV: HD Locals, locals in HD


And this is all before the launch of D12. Has to bode well for after the launch.

 

[jcrandall]

Thanks for posting the update bama. Nice to see the UP of MI get some love - from either provider.

 

[shkarter1985]

Greenville/Spartanburg locals

They recently added WYCW-HD (The CW) and UNC-HD (PBS) in our market. Unfortunately, no MyNetworkTV in HD in Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville market. On raoul5788 reply to meldar_b, he meant you can't have both distant network feeds and local-into-local service, I think it's a SHVERA thing. But the law saids you can't have out-of-market locals. I wished that the law should changed. I know how you feel.

 

[Ramy]

They recently added WYCW-HD (The CW) and UNC-HD (PBS) in our market. Unfortunately, no MyNetworkTV in HD in Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville market. On raoul5788 reply to meldar_b, he meant you can't have both distant network feeds and local-into-local service, I think it's a SHVERA thing. But the law saids you can't have out-of-market locals. I wished that the law should changed. I know how you feel.

SHVERA is dead, it was analog only so technically we can keep them. I still have them 1 1/2 weeks later after my locals were turned on.

 

[rbmjr]

Anybody know if Tupelo, MS will ever get on that list? Cable and E* have HD locals there already.

 

[cubfan74]

Jackson, MS has HD locals as of this morning.

ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, CW, and PBS appear to be live.

 

[jcrandall]

Thank you for the report, and enjoy.

 

[shkarter1985]

SHVERA is dead, it was analog only so technically we can keep them. I still have them 1 1/2 weeks later after my locals were turned on.

I thought that if you have local-into-local HD, they have to shut off the distant HD network channels.