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Old 27-Jan-2011, 7:05 PM   #7
Dave Loudin
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Everything you are seeing is LOS. To be sure, double-check the channel numbers you actually tune to for the analog channels.

Looking back on your report, note that all the LOS stations have call signs of KnnXX. These are all low-power transmitters, airing either original programming or relaying a distant station. Also note that three stations are listed twice, once as digital and once as analog.

Low-power stations were not required to stop analog broadcasting when full-power stations did. There is no fixed date that I recall, yet, so we are still in a transition between analog and digital. TVFool uses the extract the FCC provides of its database of station technical parameters. Ideally, the status of each station is accurately reflected, but the status of low-power stations is not maintained well. So, it's hard for programs like TVFool's model to know for sure whether the analog or the digital operation is operating.

Based on your TVFool report and what you tell us you are seeing, I believe you are picking up:

K23JK-D relaying KOIN (as GroundUrMast has said) in digital
K35CR relaying KPTV (Fox 12) in analog
K43EJ relaying KATU (ABC) in analog

There are two other translators listed: K19EI (relaying PBS) and K40EG (relaying KGW, NBC). K19EI filed a license to cover flash-cutting to digital operations back in '09, so they may be off-air for technical reasons. K40EG has filed a request to move to channel 28 for digital operations, but the FCC has not acted on it yet. K35CR has a permit to flash-cut to digital, but I guess they haven't done it yet.

You are not going crazy. You're getting just what the report says you should. It's all a matter of understanding what those channels carry.
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