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unusual facts about digital television


Digital television

Some signals carry encryption and specify use conditions (such as "may not be recorded" or "may not be viewed on displays larger than 1 m in diagonal measure") backed up with the force of law under the WIPO Copyright Treaty and national legislation implementing it, such as the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act.


CHFD-DT

It broadcasts a digital signal on VHF channel 4 from a transmitter in Shuniah and also operates a rebroadcaster in Armstrong (CKAR-TV, channel 8).

CHRO-TV

The two stations share studios – alongside Bell's Ottawa radio properties – located at the Market Media Mall building on 87 George Street in Downtown Ottawa's ByWard Market, and its transmitter is located near TV Tower Road/Highway 36 in Pembroke; the station operates a digital-only rebroadcaster on UHF channel 43 in Ottawa.

CKRN-DT

It broadcasts a digital signal on VHF channel 9 (or virtual channel 4.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter near Chemin Powell (north of Route 101) in Rouyn-Noranda.

KDTF-LD

It broadcasts a low-powered high definition digital signal on UHF channel 36 (virtual channel 36.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter southeast of Spring Valley.

KEYT-TV

Licensed to Santa Barbara, the station broadcasts a high definition digital on UHF channel 27 (virtual channel 3.1 via PSIP) with its transmitter located atop Broadcast Peak, between Santa Barbara and Santa Ynez in the Santa Ynez Mountains.

KJCT

It broadcasts a high-definition digital signal on VHF channel 7 (or virtual channel 8.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter at the Mesa Point Electronics Site on the Grand Mesa (southeast of Interstate 70).

KLJB

Licensed to Davenport, Iowa, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 49 (or virtual channel 18.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter along US 150 in Orion of Western Township, Illinois.

KRSU-TV

It broadcasts a high-definition digital signal on UHF channel 36 (or virtual channel 35.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter located to the adjacent southeast of Oologah Lake in northern Rogers County.

KTPN-LD

It broadcasts a low-power standard-definition digital signal on UHF channel 47 from a transmitter near East Mountain, Texas.

KZJO

Owned by the Tribune Company, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 25 (virtual channel 22.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter at the studio facilities that the station shares with Fox-affiliated sister station KCPQ on the west shore of Lake Union in Seattle's Westlake neighborhood.

Mediaguard

Mediaguard is a conditional access system for digital television developed by SECA (Société Européenne de Contrôle d'Accès), company renamed to Canal+ Technologies SA (CEO François CARAYOL), a subsidiary of Canal+ Group, sold to Thomson (CEO Thierry Breton).

Nagra France

Nagra France is a company which develops and markets the Mediaguard conditional access system for digital television.

Samsung Galaxy S

The Brazilian "GT-I9000B" includes an ISDB-T 1seg digital television tuner with program guide, closed caption and recording support.

Star Ray TV

The station, which broadcasts in digital on channel 22 in Toronto's Beaches neighbourhood, was launched in 1997 when Jan Pachul, an amateur radio operator, applied to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission for a licence to serve the community.

Terrestrial television

By the mid 1990s, the interest in digital television across Europe was such the CEPT convened the "Chester '97" conference to agree means by which digital television could be inserted into the ST61 frequency plan.

WMYA-TV

For two weeks after that, it broadcast a "nightlight" service in the form of a continuously repeating short program about installing digital television converter boxes, alternating between English and Spanish versions, before finally shutting down its analog signal completely.

WOCH-CA

In addition to programming from South Korea, and some locally-produced programs, WOCH airs non-Korean ethnic programming on weekends (such as programming from local cable television network Bostel), in a format similar to that of FBT 26.6.

WQAD-DT3

Over-the-air, the station airs a standard definition digital signal on UHF channel 38.3 (or virtual channel 8.3 via PSIP) from a transmitter in Orion, a village of Western Township, Illinois.

WTWV

WTWV, UHF digital channel 23, is a religious independent television station located in Memphis, Tennessee, United States.

WWAY-DT2

Over-the-air, the station airs a 720p high definition digital signal on UHF channel 46.2 (or virtual channel 3.2 via PSIP) from a transmitter, west of Winnabow, in Town Creek Township.

WYTV

Licensed to Youngstown, Ohio, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 36 (or virtual channel 33.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter on Shady Run Road in the city along East Midlothian Boulevard/OH 170.


see also

Astra 3A

Astra 3A is one of the Astra communications satellites owned and operated by SES, launched in 2002 to the Astra 23.5°E orbital slot providing digital television and radio for DTH and cable, multimedia and interactive services, corporate networks, and occasional and other business services to central Europe.

Band I

The fast growing of digital television in all European countries is accompanied by the progressive closedown of band I analog transmitters, e.g. former French-language Swiss Television transmitter at La Dôle near Geneva on channel E4 or French analog transmitters used by Canal Plus for its Pay-TV VHF network, e.g. Besançon (Lomont) and Carcassonne (Pic de Nore) both on French channel "L-3".

BBCi

BBC Red Button, the BBC digital television text service, formerly known as BBCi between 2001 and 2008

BHB CABLE TV

The main activity of BHB CABLE TV is the provision of cable and digital television, cable internet access and fixed telephony in the following Bosnian cities: Tuzla, Lukavac, Kladanj, Gračanica, Brčko, Doboj Istok, Novi Travnik, Jajce, Mrkonjić Grad, Sanski Most and Velika Kladuša.

CEA-909

The United States National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) ran a coupon-eligible converter box (CECB) subsidy program for the ATSC conversion, but did not subsidize the purchase of a smart antenna to mitigate the cliff effect of digital television, and most CECBs do not support smart antennas.

Channel 24

Nederland 24, a number of specialty digital television channels from Netherlands Public Broadcasting

ED TV

Enhanced-definition television, American shorthand for certain digital television (DTV) formats and devices

KLPD

KLPD-LD, a low-power digital television station (channel 28) licensed to Denver, Colorado, United States

KMBY

KMBY-LD, a low-power digital television station (channel 19) licensed to serve Templeton, California, United States

KPSP

KPSP-CD, a Class-A low-power digital television station (channel 38) licensed to Cathedral City, California, United States

KRCW

KRCW-TV, a digital television station (channel 33 physical/32 PSIP) licensed to Salem, Oregon, United States

KSBS

KSBS-CD, a low-power digital television station (channel 10) licensed to Denver, Colorado, United States

KSLM

KSLM-LD, a low power digital television station in Salem, Oregon, United States

KUVR

KUVR-LD, a low-power digital television station (channel 29) licensed to McCook, Nebraska, United States

KYUM-LP

With station KSWT being assigned channel 16 for their digital television operations, KYUM-LP was forced to move, and filed an application with the FCC in May 2001 to move to VHF channel 2.

Lullaby for Columbine

Within weeks of its inception, the Project garnered more than a quarter of a million dollars of support through in-kind donations from large corporations such as Sony Disc Manufacturing, Musicland and the National Digital Television Center to facilitate nearly all production, manufacturing and distribution phases of the record project.

Michael Voris

After being a guest speaker at several Roman Catholic parishes in Detroit and serving as a host on Michigan Catholic Radio network, in 2006 Voris started the digital television studio St. Michael’s Media in Ferndale, Michigan.

SelecTV

Carlton Select, a defunct British cable and digital television channel previously branded as SelecTV, renamed Carlton Select in 1997 and closed in 2000

Tele2Vision

Tele2 was relatively late in adopting digital television, broadcasting analogue only until early 2006 (the other major distributors, Com Hem, SPA and Canal Digital, had been offering digital television for several years by then).

Vipnet

Afterwards, Vipnet acquired 100 percent ownership of Digi satelitska televizija d.o.o. Digi TV Croatia is one of the top providers of digital television services on the Croatian market, which began operating in November 2006.

W43BR

The signal is beamed directly north so as not to interfere with any Madison Stations including full power Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) affiliate WWRS, which has its digital television signal on channel 43.

West Digital Television

As GWN7 consists of three different stations licensed in Albany/Bunbury, Kalgoorlie and Geraldton, and a fourth licensed to the rest of the state as part of the Remote Commercial Television License scheme, West Digital Television's network is made up of four separate stations.

WHMM

KGLA-DT, a digital television station (channel 42) licensed to Hammond, Louisiana, United States, which used the call sign WHMM-DT from November 2004 to August 2007

WILM

WILM-LD, a digital television station affiliated with CBS in Wilmington, North Carolina, broadcasting on UHF channel 40

WOTH

WOTH-CD, a digital television station licensed to Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

WOUB-TV

WOUB-TV and WOUC-TV utilized channels 27 and 35, respectively for digital television operations prior to the DTV transition on June 12, 2009.

WXNY

WXNY-LD, a low-power digital television station (channel 32) licensed to serve New York, New York