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Post by ginnycat5 on Feb 4, 2014 15:18:47 GMT -5
We have a portable tv in the kitchen, with a rabbit-ears antenna on the window sill. It will get 5.2 but there's no sound for 5.1 or 7.1. Argghh! So frustrating! At breakfast, I want to see the weather and news, not old westerns.
I just tried 20, and it's there! Wasn't there last night. Interesting to hear Native American languages on 20.2. I think it's Cree now. Sounds like Swedish once in a while.
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Post by nuwildcats on Feb 4, 2014 22:37:36 GMT -5
We have a portable tv in the kitchen, with a rabbit-ears antenna on the window sill. It will get 5.2 but there's no sound for 5.1 or 7.1. Argghh! So frustrating! At breakfast, I want to see the weather and news, not old westerns. ginnycat5, Apt/condo? I'm in a Comcast-only building and their tech messed up OTA transmission which eventually got fixed. Are you in your own home? I think I already mentioned this in another thread. I keep catching the infomercial on, I think it's called Clear TV. Some type of antenna that lets OTAers get as many stations as I get where I live and with my internet tv.
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Post by nuwildcats on Apr 3, 2014 16:05:08 GMT -5
After not getting CBS 2.1 for a few weeks, I wrote them and got this response from their operations director. Followed his instructions and got CBS again, with clearer reception on a few substations.
CBS just added a new antenna at Belmont & Cicero which they say targets my (lakeside) neighborhood but other surrounding areas might get a bump from it, too.
1. To clear out the memory on your tv, disconnect the antenna from your tv and do a complete channel rescan, which will net you "0" stations (something I've never thought of doing. It may be why ginnycat5, et al. have had problems with CBS.)
2. Then, disconnect the power on your TV for 5 minutes. That resets the tuner to the same way it was when you bought it.
3. Put it all back together and do a new channel scan. That should do the trick.
It did the trick for me.
Off-topic: CBS' lost transmission coincided with the new station 66.2 (GetTV), "...owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment...the network's primary programming consists of pre-1970s classic feature films, mainly from the Sony Pictures Television library. The network competes with Movies!, as a similarly-formatted network whose primary sources of programming are feature films and mixed classic television series, and film channels like, This TV, Me-TV, Antenna TV, Cozi TV, Bounce and Retro Television Network."
Tuned into 66.1 late last night and they were advertising Thursdays in April feature William Holden movies, but other than Picnic, I'm unfamiliar with the rest of the titles.
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