Local broadcasters transmit Free TV channels over-the-air in 210 major cities across the United States, these broadcasts are sent over the airwaves for free and are intended for customers who live within a designated market area otherwise known as a "DMA". Most home and business locations within a DMA should be able to receive these free TV channels with a standard indoor or outdoor TV antenna depending on your distance from the broadcast location and any obstructions such as mountains, trees and buildings between your location and the broadcast tower location. To determine if your home or business is located within a DMA coverage area and has access to free local broadcast channels, select your home state from the list of states below. Then, select a city or zip code to discover a list of available antenna tv channels that are available in your area.
Qam Channels List By Zip Code
Major networks including ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, and PBS have affiliates in almost every major US city that insert local programming into the network's national feed then broadcast TV signals over-the-air from a centrally located broadcast tower. TV signals travel over the air and can be received several miles away at your home or business with a simple indoor or outdoor TV antenna. The distance between your home and the broadcast tower will ultimately determine whether you will need an indoor or outdoor antenna. Channel Master's easy to use tool on this page was designed to identify channels that are available in your area. Our antenna recommendation engine can also determine and make a recommendation for the outdoor TV antenna that will work best at your location.
ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, PBS and The CW are available in all major US cities. Various other networks including independent, international and faith based channels are also available but differ by city. You will receive all of the top shows like Dancing With The Stars, Grey's Anatomy, Bull, The OT, Empire, This Is Us, Chicago Fire, The Tonight Show, The Voice, Arrow, The Flash and more. Local News and Live events such as the Olympics, the Oscars and the Super Bowl are also available for free on over the air TV.
All major networks broadcast signals in HD quality. HD channels received over-the-air with an antenna display better picture quality than the same channels received from a typical cable, satellite or streaming provider.
Most major brand flat screen TVs manufactured after 2006 support both ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) and QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) digital tuners. ATSC is used to receive digital channels over the air. QAM is used to receive digital channels from a cabe TV provider without use of a cable box. Your TV must support QAM to function on the Comcast provided ResNet HD Cable TV system.
The best way to check if your digital TV's tuner is clear QAM capable, is to connect your TV and use your remote control to manually tune to a few digital channels. BFor example, enter "9" "-" "1" (nine, dash, one) and press "enter" if necessary. If you don't see a picture (i.e. WCAU NBC10), try a few more channels like. "6-1" for WPVI 6ABC and "3-1" for KYW CBS3. If you can't tune any channels, your TV may not include a QAM digital tuner.
Finally you should consult the TV Compatibility listing for further assistance. If your manufacturer's name isn't listed in the green table and after following the instructions above you are unable to view a picture, it is highly likely your TV is unsupported. As a last resort you can try to replace the cable between your TV and the wall, or try your TV in a different wall jack (every suite has two or more jacks) just to rule out a cabling problem.
A working QAM cable layout is a channels.conf file from your installation which is successfully tuning digital cable TV using an HDTV tuner card, along with the name of your cable provider, which tier you have (if applicable), and your zipcode (because many cable companies serve different channels from different headends) and user name.
If your services is not listed here, or in accurate, there are instructions for searching for QAM channels and finding unencrypted ones. If you're just trying to get an idea what's available in your area, you might find this website, operated by SiliconDust, the HDHomeRun tuner people, useful, for sufficiently small values of "useful".
Many cable providers are transitioning away from analog to digital service. For those customers not upgrading to digital TV's, they are providing free digital to analog converters (DTA's). Traditionally, their full featured set top boxes (STB's) received all sorts of information such as encryption keys, guide data, etc via an out of band (OOB) POD interface. This is a special receiver that tunes frequencies outside of the normal TV frequencies. One of the pieces of information that's transmitted is a table that maps station callsigns and virtual channels (the integer channels that the STB's present to the user and are used by TV Guide, Schedules Direct, zap2it, etc) to RFchannel.program number that clearQAM TV's use. For example, Schedules Direct and Comcast may say FOODTV is channel 35 but a clearQAM capable TV plugged directly into the line will report it as 78.4. This would also traditionally require one to use the MythTV channel editor and manually input the frequency and program number for each channel and associate the xmltvid. Since Comcast is handing out DTA's for free, they are severely cost reduced and don't have a POD interface. Instead, they are transmitting the virtual channel table in-band (i.e. tuneable with a conventional clearQAM tuner) to allow the DTA's to do the virtual channel mapping.
Note: By the end of year 2013, Comcast, one of the major cable companies which have used DTAs and offered Clear QAM basic channels for which using SCTE65SCAN has been advantageous will have finished encrypting all their channels, including the basic channels. Clear QAM tuners on Comcast will no longer be able to receive any content.
You can determine which, if any offset, by experimenting with the HDHR GUI. On the Tuner tab in the selection box before channel number try scans with 'us-cable' (standard), 'us-hrc', or 'us-irc'. Whichever option leads to finding channels is the right option for your system.
The next time it is run, mythfilldatabase will detect the virtual channel number in the 'freqid' and/or 'channum' field of the imported SQL and fill in the xmltvid for you if you are using Schedules Direct. Be sure to enable the channels at Schedules Direct prior to running mythfilldatabase. Alternatively, you can use the following SQL, which will also help by setting the callsigns to the same so that they don't double up in the UI:
It's a good idea to use the channel editor either in mythtv-setup or in mythweb to edit the various channels to make them work properly. In particular, if your device has found both analog and digital channels Myth will pick the first channel available which is likely to be the SD version. If you delete the SD versions and leave only the HD versions for the appropriate sourceid then you'll ensure you actually get HD recordings.
scte65scan-0.2.1 may not generate a complete frequency table if any of your channels are broadcast on the same frequency as your VCT data. If you use the -p option to scan for ATSC PSIP data and find that certain channels will not tune, check the PSIP section of your vct.sql file for those channels. If the frequency referenced in the WHERE clauses for those channels doesn't exist in the frequency table section (dtv_multiplex table) you will have to add a record manually by duplicating the last INSERT statement in that section, incrementing the mplexid value for this new record and changing the frequency to match the frequency of your missing channel(s). You will need to re-import your vct.sql file after making this change.
Note that there may be multiple tables that are very similar, with the tables for multiple towns. In some cases, the most obvious differences will be in the local town channels. In some cases, using the wrong table will result in receiving the public access channels for the wrong town; apparently Comcast will send the same signal to multiple towns and configure the cable boxes to use a different table depending on where it is installed.
Update 10/31/09: Pace DC50X box you get from comcast may no longer have the screens listed in the screen shots above. Step 3 above will be different. Use the channel up or down button to go to the Virtual Channel Map and press enter on the remote, it will give you the channel list, complete with frequencies. (along the top of the screen will give the VCT ID)
Important! All locales will see multiple VCT_IDs, only one of them applies to your locale. That is the point of this table. See the instructions above and only post one VCT_ID: the one for your exact location. Please do not post all the VCT_IDs you see! Rarely, the same ZIP code can overlap locales and have different VCT_IDs. This is why it is essential that you provide all information to distinguish one from the next.
Note: Please put each ZIP code in a new entry. Adding extra ZIP codes to an existing entry breaks sorting of the table. Please do not leave any fields blank. Figuring out the decimal and hex values are explained above.
Clear QAM digital TV channels are digital cable channels which can be watched on a TV set without requiring a cable TV set top box. Many cable operators transmit the local high definition ATSC channels using clear QAM. Some cable operators transmit additional non-premium TV programs using clear QAM.
To use the WinTV-HVR-955Q with Windows Media Center, download and install the Windows Media Center driver installation package, which will install the WinTV-HVR-955Q Windows driver and the Hauppauge MCE Soft Encoder.
Note: Under Windows 7, the Hauppauge MCE Soft Encoder is pre-installed as part of Windows 7. Therefore, you can skip the installation of the MCE Soft Encoder and simply install the WinTV-HVR-950Q Windows driver. 2ff7e9595c
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