San Francisco OTA Channel List for Sutro Tower
If you live in San Francisco, you know that there is a big ass tower on Twin Peaks that must have some kind of television channel transmissions coming from it. Well, you are correct. I have an OTA (Over the Air) HDTV tuner coming for my new Microsoft Media Center Edition 2005 box that I am building and I wanted to see what HDTV channels I could expect to receive over the air for free. I did notice last night that there are about 5 or 6 local channels that Comcast cable throws you for free with your basic cable package. That is kinda cool, but I want more.
According to this Digital Television list for the bay area, I can expect to receive the following channels VERY clearly with just about any UHF antenna:
19.1 KBWB – - HDTV
19.2 KBWB – -
24.1 KGO ABC HDTV
24.2 KGO ABC-r
24.3 KGO ABC-AccuWx
29.1 KPIX CBS HDTV
30.1 KQED PBS-HD HDTV
30.2 KQED PBS-r
30.3 KQED World
30.4 KQED Life
30.5 KQED Kids
33.1 KMTP OneLife
33.2 KMTP KBS-World
33.3 KMTP 5-DayNews
33.4 KMTP WTV
33.5 KMTP NTDTV
33.6 KMTP Education
34.1 KFSF TeleFutura
34.2 KDTV Univision
39.1 KCNS Shop@Home
43.1 KCSM PBS
43.2 KCSM MHzWorldview
43.3 KCSM KCSM-FM
45.1 KBCW CW HDTV
56.1 KTVU FOX HDTV
56.2 KTVU FOX
57.1 KRON MyNetTV
57.2 KRON MyNetTV
That is pretty sweet. Now I am going to have to figure out how to get all of these channels supported in MCE because I am not sure it is going to want to add it to my list of channels off-the-bat.
[tags]HDTV, Channels, San Francisco, Bay Area, UHF, List[/tags]
November 3rd, 2006 at 5:20 pm
I’m glad to see that our DTV Channel List was useful for you.
Don’t forget that there are three digital stations on Mt. San Bruno – KNTV 12.1, KSTF 27.1 and KKPX 41.1-41.4 – that you should be able to get as well.
How well did your MCE do in picking up all of the stations?
Larry
SF
November 21st, 2006 at 10:41 am
Not very well, but I was using the ATI HDTV Wonder. I will be getting a couple of DVICo HD tuners which sound like they are leaps and bounds better than the ATI unit is at tuning signals. I have made a lot of changes, added another MCE box, moved some tuners around. So, I have had some tweaking to do, which has been a bit of a pain, but things are almost all worked out right now. Need to order the DVICo tuners going, but I almost want to wait and see if the cable card tuners are going to be out soon so that I can just use digital cable channels like we should be able to at this point.
December 18th, 2006 at 4:35 pm
I live in S.F. about a mile from Twin Peaks. I inherited(literally) a one year old Dell work station ($3,000) from a music buff (he had a web page on music that got many replies from around the world). I am not very knowledgeable myself about this sort of stuff but this computer probably made things easy for me. With a little bit of anxiety I installed an ATI Wonder card 650 ($100 at Best Buy). Works GREAT. Records (scheduled or push button) HDTV (no quality loss) or FM radio. They say you need an amplified aerial. I put on a connecting coax (have not gotten such an aerial yet) put much of the coax in the window. I perfectly receive NBC, ABC, KQED(regular broadcast, ENCORE, and WORLD), KIDS and three in Chinese broadcasts. All HDTV. I have a 17″ monitor–not bad viewing for one person, but LCD is too directional for more viewers(of course a computer monitor is only designed for one person at a time). Hope eventually to get a bigger screen, but it looks like the screen may be the most expensive aspect of a regular HDTV, so running off a computer may not save much. Looks like 90% of the cost of an HDTV is a result of the screen.
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January 20th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Didn’t NBC change the location of their tower about a year ago? Which actually put it closer to the Sutro one.