MPTV digital changes

[StarvingForHDTV]

I noticed that 10-3 is now PBS Kids and 10-4 is now a new channel called Create.  Create replaced PBS-You.  Create seems like a welcome change to me.

I also noticed that the 3 hour delay on 10-1 and 10-2 was gone last night.  Did they finally figure out that it doesn't make sense to have children's programs on during prime time?  I hope so.  Their website mentions the Create channel but does not mention the end of the 3 hour delay.  I will cross my fingers that the delay will not be brought back from the grave....

http://www.mptv.org/list_mnu/updates/update_txt/wmvs_hd.html

"Dec. 20, 2005
For immediate release

MPTV Adds Create
To Digital Choices

Many of public television's most popular "how-to" and lifestyle programs will be available on Create, a new Milwaukee Public Television digital channel, 24 hours a day beginning Monday, Jan. 9, at 6 a.m.
The new service will feature 30 high-profile series and specials each week ranging from Rick Steves' Europe Classics and America's Test Kitchen to P. Allen Smith's Garden Home and Scrapbook Memories. The array of productions on travel, cooking, crafts, home renovating and other interests replaces PBS University, which offered enrichment and instructional programming.
Viewers with Time Warner digital cable television will find MPTV Create on channel 553. Over-the-air digital broadcasts will be on channel 10-4. (MPTV Kids will move to channel 10-3.)
Nearly 140 public television stations across the country, including Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and other major markets, will carry Create. The new channel has been developed by American Public Television and WGBH of Boston and WNET in New York with the support of PBS.
MPTV Create is designed to give public television audiences more options for watching favorite programs and discovering new ones. The service hopes eventually to add original programming as well as other popular series.
MPTV began digital service in March, 2000. Viewers must have digital TV sets or converters to receive signals from all of the MPTV digital and analog services. They include the original stations (Channels 10 and 36), delayed broadcasts of 10 and 36, children's programming, a classical music channel, MPTV-HD, and the new Create channel."

[Doug Mohr]

That would be awesome if the delay was gone.

But their site lists the delay in the schedule:

Ch. 10, WMVS's, SD signal capabilities are split
into the following 7 Standard Definition digital
broadcast signals, which are available on digital sets
and with digital adapters available for use with computers.

10-1--Ch. 10 on a 3-hour delay.
10-2--Ch. 36 on a 3-hour delay.
10-3--MPTV Kids.
10-4--MPTV Create.
10-5--weather plus / digital stereo classical music audio.
10-6--weather plus / NOAA weather audio.
10-7--weather plus / World Radio Network audio.

(The above order begins Jan. 9, 2006.)

[StarvingForHDTV]

Last night 10-2 had no delay, but 10-1 was delayed.   :confused:

[waterhead]

I actually like having the 3-hour delay, although I know that I'm in the minority on this.

I work most evenings and miss prime time TV. I set up some PVR systems to record shows while I'm at work. Most of the shows that I record are from PBS. (WARNING! Opinion to follow!) I find commercial TV to be full of crap, some of it HD crap.

With the 3-hour delay, I rarely need to record a show anymore

[Jimboy]

FYI

EPG for 10-3 & 10-4 are flip-flopped. Bearstein Bears was on but the guide was for a
cooking show.  Cooking show had guide info for the Bearstein Bears.

[MoreTorque99]

Are these channels broadcast with low strength?  I can get analog Ch10 just fine along with 36.1 no problem, but any of the digital Ch10 channels I can't get.

[StarvingForHDTV]

Digital channel 10 is actually channel 8.  Maybe your antenna does better with higher channel numbers?  Mine isn't supposed to work with the lower channels, but it picks up digital 10 just fine.