Will this be the month for local hd news?

[js6751]

Hopefully this is still right! http://www.milwaukeehdtv.org/forums/showthread.php?t=7385

[leprechaunshawn]

I hope channel 12 is the first to offer HD news.

After channel 4's issues with dropping hd to tell us its cold outside I vowed to not watch local programming on TMJ.

But I think my attitude is like most everyone else.  Whichever local channel offers HD news first, is who I will watch, until my preference steps up.

[WITI6fan]

IIRC, the article also said 12 would get a new set for the HD premiere.

No signs of a new set yet... Maybe they're waiting until March sweeps?

Also, I highly doubt WDJT having a HD newscast anytime soon.

[jrh1985]

If 12 or another Local station were/is going HD, wouldn't they want to promote it a little?  I haven't even seen a clue of HD on 4, 6, or 12.  The first Milwaukee station to go HD should should be 4 or 12 in my mind.

[NET10]

If they promote it now all of the people that are worried about the DTV transition will think they have HD on the 17th (or in 4 months).  Someone will slip it in without announcement.  IMO.

[John L]

The first in local HD News is....


      WVTV, ch. 18


-John L.

[AndrewP]

When?



:p

[John L]

Andrew, I guess I was being somewhat sarcastic.  We have had numerous posts regarding Milwaukee Local news in HD for sometime now.  Not sure why people keep asking. Eventually it will happen.  Rather then using WVTV since they don't air news anyways I could have used WVCY-TV which is not HD at all and carries no news.

Anyways, why does the subject keep coming up?  Yes I will welcome HD Milwaukee News once it becomes available.  I agree, one of the 4 stations, 4, 6, 12, and 58 will eventually make the announcement when they are ready.  Most people, except this website, are not big into HDTV. They just happy to have a TV, HD, SD or analog...whatever works.  As long as they got something to keep entertained at night. Therefore I don't think any of our locals are in too much of a hurry.

Right now, if anyone is to do local Milwaukee News in HD would be WISN-DT-12 because they already have the equipment to air Oprah Winfrey in HD as part of a syndicated package.  So WISN perhaps has most HD available equipment then 4, 6, and 58.

If 58 had some HD equipment available, then Jeopardy at 6:00pm and Wheel of Fortune at 6:30pm would be in HD.

If WVTV-18 brings back news, I highly doubt HD at this point. I don't think they plan to do News anytime soon.  Last one was 2 or 3 years ago.

-John L.:confused:

[Tom Snyder]

Not sure why people keep asking. Eventually it will happen.

The very reason for the existence of this site has been for people to ask: "When will  xxxxxxxx be in HD?" Heck, when I first saw HD at NAB in Vegas back in the early 90's I asked "when will ANYTHING be in HD?" Since the group first began as a Yahoo group, the questions were: "When will Football, prime time TV, Letterman, Nascar, Olympics, national news, Discovery Theatre, Local Channels, CNN, Fox News be in HD? ... when will the local stations, and TWC, and Dish and DirecTV provide us the HD channels?  Eventually it all happened... but this site allowed the  dialogue and discussion and built a community.

[John L]

Ya know what Tom,

  Not sure about anybody else, but I get quite a few junk mails from Credit card companies trying to sell their credit card. Perhaps if I forwarded them to the local stations maybe they can apply for one or more credit cards to purchase the HD equipment they need right away to do news and pay it off later.

-John L.

[Tom Snyder]

It'll take more than a couple credit cards to pay for a station to go HD for their news.  

But a business the size of a broadcast TV station may have to borrow for some of it. They announced last year that they had budgeted for it to happen this month, probably planning to use some cash, some terms from equipment manufacturers, and borrowing from banks and other lenders, trying to take into account whether they'll be paying the thousands and thousands of dollars to keep two signals on the air past the Feb 17th transition date. If anything the possible extension till June may delay this.

Also clouding the issue is the downturn in ad revenue for TV stations, compounded by the overall slowdown in the economy.

The discussion is here because they said they were doing it this month. We haven't heard a peep from any of them indicated that they will or won't be doing what they indicated they'd do. Nothing wrong with our asking, and in lieu of their non-response, a public discussion.