The DTV transition in Humboldt County, California is so low-key, that you wouldn’t even know it was happening, if you relied upon news from the websites of local digital television broadcasters, that is. To put it mildly, web sites belonging to local digital (and analog) television stations in Northern California are nearly all but useless, [...]
Eureka, CA, Feb 18, 2009 – Few things in life are free, to be sure. That especially is the case when it comes to HDTV programming. In rural areas like Humboldt County, where few (if any) local TV stations can afford the luxury of broadcasting signals in HDTV, the only real way to get HDTV [...]
As we expected, TV viewers in rural parts of Humboldt County may very well be left in the dark after the switch is made to digital television (DTV) in February 2009. The Times-Standard reported this week that viewers in the Orleans area may lose access to KIEM-TV, the area’s only NBC affiliate, when analog transmissions cease and DTV is made mandatory. The problem? Reception in that area is currently only available via a low-powered analog translator, which relies upon solar power and batteries to broadcast a signal. The only way to keep translator service available would be for the station to install a new DTV translator or convert the station’s main signal from digital back to analog in order to be rebroadcast. The station’s current solar system does not produce enough electricity for either option though.
Below are the latest channel listings as provided by SuddenLink Communications for Humboldt County, California. HDTV channels are indicated in RED. Channels listed as “basic” are transmitted via the cable system as an analog (NTSC) signal, and can be tuned-in without the need for a DTV tuner or converter at present. This is the case, [...]
<br /> @import url(http://www.google.com/cse/api/branding.css);<br /> Custom Search We are still adding to this list, station by station.Hopefully, the page will be finished within the next couple of weeks. As they say in the TV industry… Stay Tuned!!! Below is a list of all known television broadcasters in the Eureka, CA and Humboldt County markets. Many [...]
HDTV Is On The Way HDTV and DTV service is coming soon to a television set near you, even if you live in Humboldt County. In February of 2009, most broadcasters across the county will be changing the frequencies that they currently broadcast at and start transmitting their signals in an all-digital format called DTV [...]
