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To check on KBDI's digital service in your area, please read the section below that best describes how you receive your TV programming:

Over the Air:

For viewers that receive KBDI on channel 32, KBDI digital channels 12.1, 12.2, and 12.3 will not be available until mid-to-late 2009. This digital conversion date is later than June 12, 2009 because your community is served by a TV translator.

FYI: KBDI has started the work necessary to bring our free digital over-the-air channels to the Colorado Springs / Pueblo area. To complete this work, we must retrofit our current channel 12 analog transmitter into a digital transmitter and then will relocate the digital transmitter from our main transmitter site on Squaw Mountain to Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado Springs. We expect to be transmitting three digital channels to the Colorado Springs / Pueblo area by mid- to late-2009.

In the meantime, KBDI will continue to broadcast channel 32 analog.

Do you need a special converter box?

Yes. Since you live in an area where television signals are broadcast from a translator, you will need a converter box with an analog pass-through feature.

This special converter box will allow your TV to receive both analog (the current broadcasting technology) as well as the future digital signals. With this feature, you'll have access to all your local stations until everyone switches over to digital.

There are at least six coupon-eligible boxes that offer the analog pass-through feature:

DIGITAL STREAM DX8700
DIGITAL STREAM DSP7700T
TECHOSTAR TR-40
Magnavox TB-100MG9
Philco TB100HH9
Philco TB150HH9

For the most up-to-date list, visit dtv2009.gov.

You can buy a converter box with an analog pass-through feature using one of the $40 coupons from the federal government. Order a converter box coupon.

Cable:

KBDI digital channel 12.1 is available now on Comcast.
KBDI digital channels 12.2 (The Documentary Channel) and 12.3 (MHz Worldview) are not yet provided by Comcast.

Satellite:

DirecTV carries KBDI's primary channel and MHz Worldview; the DirecTV channel guide lists these as 12.1 and 12.2, respectively. DirecTV does not yet carry KBDI's Documentary Channel.
DISH Network currently carries only the prim,ary KBDI channel. The DISH channel guide lists it as channel 12.

FYI: Colorado Public Television continues to work with cable companies, DirecTV and DISH Network to secure agreements in which they each will carry our flagship station as well as digital multicast channels (12.2 and 12.3).

We urge those of you that receive us via cable, DirecTV or DISH Network to let them know you are interested in receiving the full complement of KBDI’s digital channels.

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