Montreal cable and HDTV

[Doug Drown]

If I'm not mistaken, folks in the Fredericton, N.B., area also get WHDH, WBZ 
and WXYZ as the principal American network stations on their cable. 
Maritimers and Quebecois have long-held sentimental, economic and  familial 
ties with Boston and the rest of New England, so I can see why the Boston 
stations would be desirable there, but like you, I don't understand where 
Detroit fits into the picture.  Must have something to do with some kind of 
inaccessibility vis-a-vis WCVB.  Curiously, many Maritimers have no access 
to Maine television, either, not even WAGM in Presque Isle.

-Doug


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Osborne" <mattosborne1976@yahoo.com>
To: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@comcast.net>; "(newsgroup) Boston-Radio-Interest" 
<boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: Montreal cable and HDTV


>
> On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:45:32 Kevin Vahey
> <kvahey@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> In Montreal for the NHL All Star Game and I have
>> noticed something odd
>> on Videotron cable.
>>
>> For the US networks in analog they are picking up
>> 3-5 and 22 out of
>> Burlington-Plattsburg but when you go to HD they are
>> picking up WBZ,
>> WHDH and WXYZ Detroit (Detroit??)  PBS is WGBH and
>> FOX is 44 analog
>> and HD is from Rochester.
>>
>> I am wondering if they are having a problem getting
>> DTV over the air
>> and will they just switch to bird feeds come next
>> month?
>>
>> That would be a huge advertising blow to the Vermont
>> outlets.
>
>>From what I understand, they could very well be having
> problems getting the Burlington/Plattsburgh DTV
> signals right now.  AFAIK, the only DTV stations up
> there on the air at or even close to full power are
> WPTZ-DT, WETK-DT and WFFF-DT.  WCAX is currently
> broadcasting on temporary channel 53 (On Feb 19, they
> will be moving to 22, WVNY's analog channel), WVNY's
> DTV signal is on VHF channel 13, and I don't think
> WCFE-DT (transmitting from Lyon Mountain just outside
> Plattsburgh NY) is even on the air right now (they
> suffered a major fire at their transmitter site
> recently; last I heard they were broadcasting an SD
> only feed on one of WCAX-DT's sub channels).  I know
> that WVNY-DT is at severely reduced power right now to
> protect WNYT-TV Albany's analog signal, and I would
> think that WCAX's temporary setup on channel 53 is
> also not running at full power.  Any
> corrections/updates anyone may have for that info
> would be appreciated, as some of this data may be
> outdated by now.
>    Hopefully after Feb 19 this situation will improve
> dramatically.
>
>                              Matt Osborne
>                              Schenectady, NY
>
>
>