NY locals off the air

[VHS or Beta]

As of about 1am Friday morning some of the NY local HD channels got knocked off the air, and they are still off as I'm writing this.

Originally since I was using the OTA tuner when I noticed it, I thought the transmitters at the Empire State Building were just shut down for some late-night maintenance, but then I flipped over to DirecTV's satellite-delivered counterparts and discovered they're out too. However it's just the HD versions that are affected, the SD versions are still on, both OTA and via satellite.

How do the local markets (particularly NY) get their signals to DirecTV? I would have thought they'd send a direct feed so a local transmitter outage would not affect the satellite signal.

Here are the English channels that I know are out:
2 WCBS (D* channel displays a message indicating there's a local outage)
4 WNBC (D* channel is black)
9 WWOR (OTA channel is out but D* is on)
11 WPIX (D* channel is black)

[PoitNarf]

Yep, not sure what's going on but I've got the same channels knocked out right now as well.

[NYSmoker]

Channel 11 came in fine this morning. Don't know what I would do without a little Jill Nicolini in the morning.

:)

[scheckeNYK]

Channel 11 came in fine this morning. Don't know what I would do without a little Jill Nicolini in the morning.

:)

damnit, i missed it. did she do dance friday?

[Bill Broderick]

I forgot all about the fact that getting chanel 11 in HD meant that I could wake up to Jill Nicolini. I have to remember to turn the TV on when I get up next Monday.

[longrider]

DirecTv does receive a fair amount of local signals OTA. Your description tells me that channel 9 is delivered by fiber but the others are all OTA

[flyingtigerfan]

damnit, i missed it. did she do dance friday?

All right. I had to google that, since I don't live up there.

And I have to say - although I could never live in NYC or anywhere near it (love to visit), I've GOT to find a way to check out that report in the mornings.

Daaaaang.

[VHS or Beta]

DirecTv does receive a fair amount of local signals OTA. Your description tells me that channel 9 is delivered by fiber but the others are all OTA
Since digital TV channels are transmitted OTA in Mpeg2 format, that would mean for those channels DirecTV receives OTA, they're transcoding Mpeg2 video into Mpeg4 for the sat feed, right? Since Mpeg2 is a lossy compression scheme, wouldn't that would mean there's an extra generation of loss in DirecTV's Mpeg4 feed?

What about a channel that is delivered to DirecTV by fiber? Is that signal also delivered to D* in Mpeg2 format before being encoded into Mpeg4, or does DirecTV get a higher video standerd from the source via fiber?

[yuppers519]

My local channel 6 which is wrgb out of schenctady area went off the air at 11:45 p.m. last night and a message came up on the tv that they are aware that the channel is not on and they are working on it and please do not call them.