{"id":12533,"date":"2020-12-29T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=12533"},"modified":"2020-12-28T17:54:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T23:54:53","slug":"i-see-you-kyou-and-other-tv-station-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/i-see-you-kyou-and-other-tv-station-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"I see you, KYOU; and other TV station notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in June, I uploaded new TV station maps and county-by-county listings. One of the prompts for making the update was finding out that KYOU<\/a>, the Fox station in Ottumwa and the only standalone Fox station in Iowa, had added NBC as a digital subchannel.<\/p>\n

The main effect of this addition, besides creating a gray area in “what counts as coverage”, is filling a space in the Ottumwa area for NBC programming. It’s on the fringes of multiple markets, and the counties in the area had been orphans for a while. I got the map from a video weathercast, and for some of you the graphics might look familiar. KYOU doesn’t have a weather desk, and it’s actually the KCRG team doing the weather for them, as the stations are now both part of Gray TV.<\/p>\n

I updated and uploaded the graphics, figuring I’d get a blog post out sometime \u2014 and then things went pear-shaped<\/a> for me computer-wise. The good news is, my iBook still works as long as it’s plugged in, and that’s the refuge for the few things that must<\/em> be done in an application that stopped being updated nearly two decades ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I have taken the “opportunity” to start from scratch by doing a full evaluation \u2014 not just the minor tweaks I made in June, but building every network map<\/a> from the ground up and catching any changes I may have overlooked. One of those other changes was also on the fringe, as Sioux Falls’ ABC and NBC stations merged in a first-of-its-kind operation. KGAN threw me for a loop: Its regional radar and county-outlines-only forecast map are slightly different!<\/p>\n

A note also must be made of coverage champion Carroll County, currently 9-for-9 on station maps in Des Moines, Omaha, and Sioux City. The full county-by-county station-by-station listing is here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in June, I uploaded new TV station maps and county-by-county listings. One of the prompts for making the update was finding out that KYOU, the Fox station in Ottumwa and the only standalone Fox station in Iowa, had added … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12533"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12574,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12533\/revisions\/12574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}