Changes in DFW's LPTV market

[JHBrandt]

KHFD's CP has been granted and they have until 12/29/2014 to fire up the new facility (going from the current 5 kW to the newly-approved power of 15 kW).

Good. Hopefully it'll help. KHFD is one of the weakest D/FW stations at my location. (The others are K25FW - who cares - and recently KBOP/20 has also been quite weak for some reason.)

[JHBrandt]

KHFD's CP has been granted and they have until 12/29/2014 to fire up the new facility (going from the current 5 kW to the newly-approved power of 15 kW).

Good. Hopefully it'll help. KHFD is one of the weakest D/FW stations at my location. (The others are K25FW - who cares - and recently KBOP/20 has also been quite weak for some reason.)

Looks like it did help. All weekend KHFD's signal has been on par with KATA/50: still weak but well above channels 20 & 25, and with reasonable breathing room.

[TheRover]

KHFD actually applied to boost to 15 kW using a full service mask filter.  The claim is that even with the power boost, adding the mask filter drops out of band emissions by more than 10 dB.

KHFD's CP has been granted and they have until 12/29/2014 to fire up the new facility (going from the current 15 kW to the newly-approved power of 15 kW).

N. Central Irving---

Not getting CH. 51 to scan in. It might be on the fringe, so that I would have to move the antenna (in the attic) to get it to scan in. But I've got the antenna positioned to get CH 28 & 31, so I'll live with that, until I add an amplifier.

[tested]

Noting this morning that KVFW(?) channel 6 appears to be off the air again.  I also see a new subchannel 34.4 added.  My-OBR are the call letters. It is blank. Wonder what will go there.

[Bob E. Nelson]

Noting this morning that KVFW(?) channel 6 appears to be off the air again. 

The calls are/were KZFW. It was the last analog in Cedar Hill. During its most recent and very brief run of being on air, the sole video content was a "FunAsiA" slide.

KVFW is still licensed as a low-power digital facility with 15 kW on channel 28. It's been off since April 2011.

[tripinva]

KVFW is still licensed as a low-power digital facility with 15 kW on channel 28.

I assume you mean 38?

- Trip

[Bob E. Nelson]

KVFW is still licensed as a low-power digital facility with 15 kW on channel 28.

I assume you mean 38?

Indeed, chalk it up to my first and only mistaek of 2012. My quota has been exhausted.

[tested]

Noting this morning that KVFW(?) channel 6 appears to be off the air again. 

The calls are/were KZFW. It was the last analog in Cedar Hill. During its most recent and very brief run of being on air, the sole video content was a "FunAsiA" slide.

KVFW is still licensed as a low-power digital facility with 15 kW on channel 28. It's been off since April 2011.

Well.. now you know why I put a question mark by that.  Yes.. the analog channel 6 LPTV station was gone that morning.

[eskipper411]

So, if KZFW is off, then that leaves KUVN-CA all on it's lonesome.

[JHBrandt]

As of Friday evening KATA/50.1 was no longer showing the MTV Tr3s network. Instead they were simulcasting LATV along with KAZD/55.4. (50.2 through 50.4 appear unchanged.) I guess music on TV just doesn't sell in DFW