Channel moved and need to remap

[thorhtpc]

Recently KTTV in Los Angeles moved from 11.1 to 35.8 to make room for their ATSC 3.0 channel. I am trying move the channel, but have not had any success.

I deleted the current 11.1 channel and added a new one. To get the 35.8 number, I had to enter the channel as 11.8 with 35 as the assigned frequency when I created it. I then change it to 11.1 afterwards. But when I tune to that channel, I get no signal. If I look at the channel information in WMC or epg_123, the tuning info show 35.8 and the channel is mapped to 11.1. Not sure how to make this work.

Has anyone else been successful with this?

Thank you,
Steve

[garyan2]

Not sure why you deleted 11.1, but you are confusing the physical stream with the virtual channel number. Using 11.1 as the virtual channel number and 35 as the physical/RF channel should work.

35.8 would be the 8th substream of RF channel 35. WMC doesn't care about that... it just looks for the substream with a virtual channel number of 11.1

[thorhtpc]

I deleted the channel because the virtual channel 11.1 was on the physical channel 11 and needed to be moved to 35. I couldn't find a way to edit the physical channel number. Is this possible?

But anyways, thank you for your suggestion. I added virtual channel 11.1 on the physical channel 35, and it now works correctly. I thought I needed the 35.8 because if you look at the tuning info in WMC or epg_123, it shows the physical channel with the sub-channel number. For example, the virtual channel 50.5 shows the physical channel 18.5. I guess I was trying to outsmart WMC.

Again, thank you for your quick response. You are always very helpful.

- Steve

[garyan2]

Ah, I see. I removed the subchannel numbers from the client a while ago due to the confusion it can cause. I was using the virtual subchannel number with the physical number, but that was wrong. WMC doesn't even store the stream number.

[thorhtpc]

WMC does show the virtual sub channel number with the physical channel number if you go to Edit Channel/Edit Source. It's listed at the bottom of the screen.

[garyan2]

Which is why I originally had it in the client, but it is wrong (using the virtual subchannel number). In my area, I have virtual 9.1 on VHF 9.1 and UHF 21.3. For the one on 21.3, WMC shows 21.1 (just using the virtual subchannel).