WRGB Will No Longer Be Carrying TV Audio on 87.7 FM Starting June 12th

[w9wi]

Are there any digital converters specifically designed to allow radios with TV audio capability to pick up the digital signals? I used to do a bit of TV DXing with a scanner that could get most of the TV bands.

I don't know of any.

Any DTV box should work if you can find a way to connect its output to the radio.  You're going to have to hook the box to an actual TV long enough to scan for channels, and you're going to have a hard time knowing which channel you're listening to if there's no TV hooked up!

[disney fanatic]

I checked out my radio on 87.7 that as of 11:59 PM during David Letterman when it was on WRGB TV audio, the station has gone static. That means you are no longer be carrying a TV audio on 87.7 FM from analog. It's the end of an era. I recorded it at around 11:45 PM on a cassette when I was recording David Letterman on and all of a sudden when I was recording, the TV audio has gone static.

Look what happened in Philadelphia at WPVI, they went digital too as of 12:15 PM, same problem at 87.7. Thanks to the FCC for this historical landscape when we switched from analog to digital.

I have a cable box in my room, but still carrying digital signals prior to the switch. All DTV stations still remains the same.

[The Dude]

I hope maybe, just maybe Pulse 87 will come in clear, or maybe not. We shall see come 11:59 PM.

I doubt it seeing the carrier from channel 6 IS STILL THERE but its now digital garbage!

What i dont understand is: WHY THE CHANGE? ANALOG IS MUCH MORE RELIABLE ESPECIALLY IN FRINGE AREAS.... AND THEY ARE STILL TAKING UP 6MHZ OF BANDWIDTH EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE DIGITAL SO HOW CAN THAT OPEN UP THE FREQUENCIES FOR OTHER THINGS?? (THE CARRIER IS STILL THERE TAKING UP THE FREQUENCY,YOU JUST CANT HEAR IT WITH A REG TUNER ANYMORE)

[disney fanatic]

Depending on where you live at home or in your car, you cannot pick up any signal from a regular tuner where WRGB's channel 6 audio carrier at 87.7. I have an aircheck of the final minutes of WRGB in analog at 87.7 which was a TV audio carrier and I will post it soon, because I don't have a computer yet.

[The Dude]

Here is a site to upload the clip to

http://files.ww.com

[THE_KNICKMAN]

WRGB did have their 87.7 MHZ signal up in the early morning hours of Sat. June 13, but technical problems arose and it was taken down. According to their website, their engineers are attempting to solve the problem, but it may take a week to get it back on.

[The Dude]

Channel 15 is still on in analog

[MHVRadiofan]

During the 11:00PM news they said that WRGB would continue to broadcast audio on 88.7 but they “had heard that there would have noise problems from the digital signal , so we will just have to wait and see.”