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Re: Antenna for TV Free Channels? hi. I will confirm with you tomorrow. But i'm 100 percent sure its either channel 8 or 22. |
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| Channel 8 via TWC in New York TBS
»tvlistings.timewarnercable.com/f···de=10028
Channel 8 via OTA in New York is WWPS-LP
»www.rabbitears.info/market.php?mktid=1
You can also see that Channel 22 via TWC in New York is The Hub. Channel 22 via OTA in New York does not exist.
So you are somehow getting one of TWC's analog channels. Either TW did not block the channel for whatever reason, or there is some signal leakage nearby. |
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said by Steve Mehs:Those were the channels it was on with cable, not OTA. TBS is NOT an over the air TV channel. You cannot pick it up with an antenna.
I have picked up cable channels with an OTA before due to a really bad cable wire from a neighbor. Having tried the free basic cable provided at that apartment and finding it lousy I stuck with Sat, and OTA for the extra locals not on the birds, and picked up a few analog cable channels.
I think what happens is that rather than fix their defective wiring/connections TWC in my case simply amped up the signal causing it to bleed onto nearby OTA antennae. Making it entirely possible to get a cable channel via OTA.
I moved a year ago and DirecTV was unable to hit the sat. It took TWC 7 months to get one Cable Card/Tuning adapter to work with the TiVo I purchased, they did a lot of finger pointing and belittling of my new TiVo equipment. Turned out that every single issue proved to be on TWC, bad wire from the ground, 3 failed tuning adapters, two cable cards died. Finally seeming stable I added the second TiVo and the tuning adapter was DOA, the replacement on the truck was also dead. They rushed a new one from the warehouse that day and it worked.
My point is I had to threaten them with legal action, termination of service to get them to get it right, they are going to do as little as possible and drag your problems out a very long time.
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said by Steve Mehs:TBS is a cable channel, you need a cable subscription to get it. No antenna in the world will allow you to pick up a cable channel via over the air
This is a lie. A satellite antenna ought to pick up every single channel over the air just fine, assuming it is of sufficient size. How do you think all your TV channels get to Time Warner in the first place? Time Warner doesn't just pull them out of their ass. They have 10'+ satellite antennas at the head-end to receive them, decrypt them, and pass them on to you. |
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| You do know I was referring to over the air antennas, not satellite dish antennas, right?
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| said by Steve Mehs:You do know I was referring to over the air antennas, not satellite dish antennas, right?
Satellite antennas are "over the air" antennas. Satellite transmissions are received from "over the air." |
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| Jesus Christ. You know what they hell I mean, so why be a prick about it? When you say the phrase 'over the air TV' almost no one thinks of satellite TV that operates on Ka, Ku or C Bands that requires an elliptical shaped dish antenna to receive programming. Next time I’ll use the word terrestrial as well, maybe you’ll get it then.
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Definition: Over-the-air or OTA refers to signals sent by a broadcast television station through the open air. OTA signals used to be all analog, but analog is slowly being replaced by digital. The FCC regulates broadcast stations. An antenna is used to receive OTA signals. A tuner, usually inside the television, decodes them. All over-the-air signals are free to use if from a licensed broadcast television station.
»tv.about.com/od/glossary/g/OverTheAir.htm
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