{"id":5272,"date":"2014-09-05T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5272"},"modified":"2014-09-03T11:39:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T16:39:07","slug":"tv-map-and-county-listings-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/09\/tv-map-and-county-listings-update\/","title":{"rendered":"TV map and county listings update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The post I made a month ago about <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/branstads-ad-buy-isnt-just-for-lee-county\/\">Gov. Branstad buying ads for the Keokuk-Hannibal-Quincy market<\/a> served as an impetus\/inspiration to update my Iowa TV station <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/maps\/tvguide.html\">county-by-county list<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/maps\/tvmaps.html\">station-by-station maps<\/a>, which hadn&#8217;t had a good hard look for a few years. I got the maps for the vast majority of stations, so it&#8217;s a pretty good update.<\/p>\n<p>There were a couple of surprises, most notably in southeastern Iowa. With KHQA and KTVO mirroring each other on ABC\/CBS broadcasts, KCCI has retreated some and now that is the <em>only<\/em>\u00a0way some counties get those networks. In point of fact, Jefferson County is only in <em>two<\/em> stations&#8217; coverage area: KCRG and KTVO, both ABC stations. (I&#8217;ve left the county as &#8220;3 stations&#8221; on the frequency map because I wasn&#8217;t totally prepared for this contingency, and it can get CBS on KTVO 3.2.)<\/p>\n<p>Tama County continues to be off and on for the central Iowa stations, but KCCI kept going for Traer when the tornado struck June 30, and for that I am grateful.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of that severe weather coverage, KCCI and WOI have made a small design change that reverberates: Their warning maps in the upper left corner are <em>only<\/em> visible if you have a <em>widescreen<\/em> TV. (WHO has moved some news graphics far enough to the sides they can be cut off, too.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The post I made a month ago about Gov. Branstad buying ads for the Keokuk-Hannibal-Quincy market served as an impetus\/inspiration to update my Iowa TV station county-by-county list and station-by-station maps, which hadn&#8217;t had a good hard look for a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/09\/tv-map-and-county-listings-update\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272","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=5272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5273,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272\/revisions\/5273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}