WCPO Transition Finished - And So Is This Blog (New-Post Wise, Anyway)

WCPO finished their digital transition last night, with their fully authorized DTV facility turned on around 12:18 this morning.

Here's a repost of the email received this morning from Friend of TSMW Rich Emery which is posted here on our main blog:

Good morning again!

Just saw your 8 AM item on TSMW, and wanted to confirm what I said below -- I'm definitely seeing a huge improvement in WCPO's signal near Hamilton, and several other people on AVS discussion threads report the same. Looks like they've successfully erased lots of their reception problems through their tower work!

Which leaves WHIO as the last one likely to improve in the short term for me -- whenever that happens, I'll be a very happy DTV camper.

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For what it's worth, I'm seeing greatly improved WCPO signal strength at my house. "voyager6" posted a message on the Dayton AVS thread describing exactly what he saw after midnight -- I'd given up and gone to bed, after nothing happened by 12:10 AM -- and he reported a huge improvement. Activity actually started shortly after 12:15 AM, it seems.

I can definitely confirm far better signal strength for WCPO in the Hamilton area this morning. As I'd commented on AVS, one set-up I have doesn't even need to have rabbit ears extended to get a solid signal, and that's quite an improvement!

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With WCPO now finished switching over, that means our main market of Cincinnati has fully switched over (minus a possible increase in power by WKRC if they determine that it's necessary to boost their VHF signal).

And with that said, it is now time to close the books on Tri-State DTV Watch. From now on, we'll just be posting our regular mix of items on Tri-State Media Watch, as we did before opening this effort 4 months ago, but this blog will remain up and open - we just won't really be posting to it anymore. We thank you for reading.

Another Update on WCPO's DTV Antenna

This is a repost of a portion of a larger item on our main blog.

WCPO Update: We told you we'd have more on this one.

WCPO has finally installed the digital antenna which will be the fully-authorized facility for the station's Post-DTV Transition Facility.

The station reports that they began the installation during the daytime hours yesterday. All that's left, now that it's been mounted to the top of the tower, is to connect the wires and turn it on, which they still expect to happen by Monday.

WCPO Transition Update

We are getting this about a week or so late - but there's still part of this story to come, so stay tuned for more...

WCPO.com has the latest on their transition:

WCPO-TV's analog antenna is no longer.

Workers removed the antenna from the tower on the morning of Wednesday, June 24. After they removed the analog antenna, crews began the process of moving the new one to the top of the tower.

The new antenna will provide viewers with a much more powerful digital signal.

The transition will be completed when the new top-mounted antenna is turned on around July 13.

We'd heard the end of June or first of July as dates for the switch to be finished over at WCPO. But this is the first solid date we've gotten.

On a related note: We will close this blog to new posts after WCPO finishes their full transition. From that point on, any and ALL Cincinnati-area TV information will be back on Tri-State Media Watch.