WECT Analog Shutoff PART I September 2008

Analog message for viewers who did not make the switch to digital television.

For PART II, click here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H4cVK7Og5k

*Notice*
The videos are not cued perfectly but it is done this way to give you an idea that the recordings from WECT are not perfect.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• WECT
• TV
• DT
• Fayetteville
• Wilmington
• North
• Carolina
• DTV
• Transition

[thecooldude9999]

one station had something like this 24/7 for a MONTH

[ZackT618]

WSFX in Wilmington, NC has a translator for that station located in Lumberton, NC.

[DCASOI]

for the most part the stations have to be shut down by midnight however some may shut down earlier.

[spunker88]

I want to record my local station shutting off. Do you know if it is 12:00AM Feb 17th that they shut off meaning Feb 16 is the last full day, or is Feb 17 the last full day?

[appstaterebel]

I wonder if the people at WMBF have taken into account the problem of inadequate reception of NBC stations in Robeson, Scotland, Dillon, and Florence stations, not to mention that NOT everyone subscribes to TWC, Dish Network, or DirecTV (thus, there are some people who only can get it through an antenna). I think that if WMBF is going to compete with WBTW and WPDE for ratings, they seriously need to do something about their deficit in over-the-air coverage.

[appstaterebel]

What I'm arriving at is that WBTW or WPDE should carry WMBF as a on one of their subchannels because both stations' towers are located in Dillon County and viewers throughout all of SE North Carolina can receive those stations easily and that would fix the problem of adequate reception of NBC stations in Robeson and Scotland Counties (and even Hoke County, where reception of WNCN is questionable). I know that WIS is carried in both counties through Directv, but it's impossible with an antenna.

[appstaterebel]

From what I can gather, WECT's signal goes as far inland as the extreme SE tip of Cumberland County and Eastern Robeson County (but not quite to Lumberton), so all of Bladen and Columbus counties shouldn't have a problem receiving WECT-DT. To stay on the same page of my thoughts about the issue, I know that WLOS and WMYA (in Western NC and the upstate of SC) carry each other, which WLOS has its programming on 13-1 and 13-2 has WMYA (same goes for WMYA, which 40-1 has WMYA and 40-2 has WLOS)

[raedizzle2009]

I was wondering why there couldn't be "translators" (which I know are more common in mountainous areas), covering the hard-to-reach areas further inland from Wilmington (Whiteville, Elizabethtown, etc.), for the Wilmington stations' digitals. WMBF, same thing...esp. with regard to Robeson, which is now part of the Myrtle Beach-Florence DMA. (Formerly Raleigh's)

[appstaterebel]

I figure that areas like Duplin and Sampson counties will do fine with receiving either (or both, depending on the area they live in) WNCN or WITN for NBC. The main area in the lower Sandhills that I'm wondering about is Hoke County, for it's kind of a stretch for a decent signal from WNCN to make it there. Also, I think that ability to receive WMBF through Satellite or Cable in Robeson and Scotland Counties isn't going to help much because some folks have neither and some want it OTA anyway.

[appstaterebel]

I know that in most of Moore and Cumberland (and northward toward the Triangle) that receiving WNCN is rather easy. However, the only areas that I have real concern about are Scotland and Robeson Counties because neither WECT, WIS, nor WMBF (their respective market's NBC affiliate) provides a signal that comes close to making it there.

It sounds to me like WMBF should've requested a different DTV channel assignment because they (at most) cover Horry, Marion, Brunswick, and part of Columbus Co.