Did they flip too soon?

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Did they flip too soon?

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WTRF is currently off the air. According to their website "WTRF-FOX Ohio Valley-ABC Ohio Valley are NOT transmitting in digital format at this time because of a transmission problem. We have an out-of-state crew working on the problem and will have it restored, hopefully, sometime Friday (2-20-09). We are no longer offering an analog signal. We are only currently just seen on Comcast Cable."

Maybe they shouldn't have flipped to all digital after all.
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"We have an out-of-state crew working on it".
Antenna, feedline, or transmitter?
Sounds expensive.
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ZThey came up back up at about 10:00 am. I did notice that they were down for atleast 12 hours, as I tried to turn them on last night. My cable provider is a small company and does not recieve the direct feed like comcast.
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Re: Did they flip too soon?

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They didn't flip too soon. This is just WTRF keeping up its tradition of sucking.
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JustWinBaby wrote:They didn't flip too soon. This is just WTRF keeping up its tradition of sucking.
Or a brand new transmitter or something else had an infant mortality problem.
It happens.
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Re: Did they flip too soon?

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It seems to happen to them a lot. Tried to watch the race on their Fox station on cable tonight. When the signal wasn't locking up, their master control operator was apparently experiencing a quick trigger finger on the break button, because they kept rolling during live action.
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