Major Boston TV outage that almost no one is noticing..... State of over the air TV today..

Bob DeMattia bob.bosra@demattia.net
Mon Apr 9 11:45:14 EDT 2012


Here on Charter cable, we have ch. 4 on analog, but nothing on the HD
channel.
That's interesting.

-Bob


On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Larry Weil <kc1ih@mac.com> wrote:

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> On Apr 9, 2012, at 9:28 AM, john@minutemancomm.com wrote:
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> > So Ch4, 38 and 44 have all been off the air since about 7:30p yesterday
> with Ch5 on a back up antenna at low power. It's amazing in this world of
> Cable being fed by fiber from studios that it affects so few people. I
> guess somthing loss in the transmission line or master antenna. They won't
> know till they can climb. A few years ago this would have been in the news
> today hardly anyone notices. 60Minutes was seen by no one who didn't have
> cable last night.
>
> It did effect Dish Network, they did not have 60 minutes last night, but
> instead a yellow screen.  I was also unable to pick up the station with my
> antenna and converter box, so I knew something big was amiss.
>
> Larry Weil
> Lake Wobegone, NH
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