I'm located in the Ottawa region. Global has been unavailable to both of my TiVo PVRs this afternoon. It shows up as no signal. All of the other channels are coming in fine. I'm not certain as to what they are doing, but I hope they restore the station soon.
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I agree that the current situation with Global Ottawa OTA is completely unacceptable. I often wonder if their engineers are just plain dumb putting a digital channel on VHF 6, or are there ulterior motives. IE: Shaw Direct.
Something to ponder.
Something to ponder.
I have a low VHF antenna as well as UHF hooked up. I have them on the roof of my house. Global comes in at 56% strength, and I live 8 km from Camp Fortune broadcasting tower. I cannot see how anyone past here is picking up Global adequately. My signal is quite solid, even in dismal weather. It's just a weak signal. It's all very interesting that the people in charge of this don't know any better. Yet some stations applied to be moved to other channels and were granted their wish. What happened to Global? Did they apply to be moved to a higher frequency that won't have interference from FM radio for example?
CTV is on that tower too isn't it? I don't think it's just Global.
I believe it's true that there's less interference, but these US stations are miles away. It seems it would only take a tiny amount of interference to blow them away.
Sub-channel 6.2 SD appears to be gone in Ottawa too. 6.1 HD is still active.
I’m in Kanata and it’s coming in fine here. I just checked and no issues.
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