Over the air antenna
 

We recently lost the CBS on the antenna. Just wondering if there is a fix.

No idea about fixing the problem with the antenna but if you are streaming you could stream all the local channels with Locast. It is $5 per month. I will be dropping cable TV soon and that is my plan for local network stations.

CBS 6.1 has suffered signal loss...standby

I think they were the ones that recently had advertisement to RESCAN on your TV as they changed transmitter.

I rescanned when NBC moved. CBS wasn't effected. But when it still wasn't back online this morning, I did another scan -- and lost CBS altogether because it is no longer broadcasting at all (or at least not strong enough to pick up, and I get stations 80 miles away in that direction).

CBS used to be our strongest station. Now its completely gone. It disappeared during the storm. Maybe there was antenna damage, but you'd think it would be mentioned somewhere online or in the news.

Don't rescan
 

I just called the station. They are doing "Maintenance work" and currently broadcasting at half power. It's temporary, but they wouldn't give a time frame.

So DON'T RESCAN (like I did) or you will lose the station altogether and won't know when it's back online.

Could someone please let us know when it's working again, so I can rescan again?

I use Comcast cable.
Does anyone know why "ME TV" has video but not audio?????

Working perfectly this morning. All five of WKMG’s channels. Stronger than ever. Rescan, make sure your antenna is pointed toward Bithlo Florida where the tower is. That is 112 degrees on the compass from my house.

I have DISH and CBS 6 is working there.

I believe I saw on the TV that you'd have to re-scan for channels. They changed the frequency.

Never have that problem with the firestick

I have Locast and it works great. I do have a Tivo over the air DVR and I like to record several shows to watch later, sadly Locast does not offer that.

re scan
 

Idiots, in my opinion, at the FCC, authorized this modern digital TV empire. Every market has channels reallocated every few months and force us off-the-air clientele to re-scan our sets. Total nuisance. Everytime I re-scan, I have to tolerate the non-English channels reappearing after I hide them in the set.

Not having audio is likely the spanish mandate our lovely FCC has dictated.

I have my channel 8.1 repeatedly during network sports games, change my set from audio one to audio two, aka spanish. It would not 'sitck' on audio one, the English.

Half the problem is the TV set manuf, the other half the broadcaster following new technology dictates.

iow -- channel 13 is no longer assigned the rf frequencies called ch13. It can be rf channel 11 and the data tells your set to ID it as channel 13. What a mess.

Rescan
 

Rescan it should pick it up again if you had a good signal before.

Nope, still down. I'm on the north side. Maybe the signal has improved, but not enough to reach here.

Over the air antenna
 

1. Check antenna.
2. Rescan channels.
3. Be aware that weather will affect over the air signals.

I've been using Firestick for years. But the lousy internet service from Comcast lately drives us back to the antenna often. We haven't managed to get through a movie on Prime or Hulu or Paramount or Sling in over a week. Maybe the storm caused some damage at Comcast, but "20 megabits" in the Villages over cable has always been worse than the sub-5 megabit we used to get over the legacy phone lines from AT&T, out in the country, back in Texas.

The loss of CBS is a big deal. It's the last of the OTA networks to produce real programming. Primetime on NBC and ABC has become nothing but game shows and fake "reality" shows.

Check the direction of the antenna. It should be pointed between 112 and 117 degrees.

The Orlando CBS channel over-the-air seems to be back and running at full strength again.

The Comcast internet problems since the storm seemed to have been resolved, as well. At least, it's no worse than before.

Can't say the same about the CBS streaming service, "Paramount", on Firestick. We still can't seem to get through an hour of programming before the buffering gets so bad that we give up. Often, we can't even get the obligatory first commercial out of the way. It will just sit there with a black screen and a little orange swirly, until I reboot the app a couple of times.

It's enough to drive you back to cable! Maybe that's the whole idea.

[QUOTE=Tom52;1970302]No idea about fixing the problem with the antenna but if you are streaming you could stream all the local channels with Locast. It is $5 per month. I will be dropping cable TV soon and that is my plan for local network stations.[/QUOTE

Is locast available for Orlando stations?

[QUOTE=Spsmith444;1972070]Sure, but who watches TV in real time anymore? You can't DVR locast.

Does anyone know if an over the air antenna will work in the Hawkins area down south?

I'm by the Polo Grounds and get everything perfectly. However my antenna is in an RV garage with no radiant barrier. When I lived by 466A in a normal height attic I got everything but Channel 2. Channel 2 just changed their transmitter so maybe it's better. In general, the further south you go, the better the reception.

I have the same question.

From looking at the Antenna maps, Hawkins would seem to be best for the Orlando area.

Being new to the area, I'm still figuring out which channels I need for a full compliment of ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox.

I understand that the antenna needs to be mounted high in the attic.

What antennas are you guys using in the Villages?

I was looking this one;
antennasdirect.com
ClearStream-4MAX-Attic/Outdoor-TV-Antenna

I'm open to suggestions since you know the area and probably have researched the antennas that are best for the area.