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Anyone else having issues with getting KCTS 9- PBS on a dtv antenna? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/seattle

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I don't use cable television but have a current TV with internet and a dtv antenna because why bother. PBS hasn't worked in forever. I saw a 3 year old post on how shitty the KCTS programming is, could they be not even broadcasting? Usually I can manually find if it's a low signal, but I can't even find a signal. It's at flat 0%. I go back and check every few months and nada.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've done that every few months and then try to manually put them in. This has been a years long thing and they call themselves PBS 9 so I assume that means they're still on channel 9?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

KCTS will always be channel 9, but which radio frequency "channel 9" corresponds to can change. In the analog days, you could reasonably surmise that channel 4 was a lower frequency than channel 9, but that's not necessarily the case with digital broadcasting. It's the metadata contained within the digital signal that determines what channel number you see on the TV, not the actual radio frequency.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I had no idea that it's just a number, but now that you say that it makes complete sense and I'm an idiot, lol.