topic Re: Lost OTA Signal in Q Talk

Lost OTA Signal

Shawnie — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 19:32:03 GMT

I have been watching QVC (and HSN) via an OTA (over the air broadcast, antenna) for several years in the Northern Virginia market from a station in Manassas. This afternoon it disappeared. Why?

Re: Lost OTA Signal

Kachina624 — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 19:39:15 GMT

@Shawnie It's been my experience that those stations and their programming constantly move around. We lost ours for a couple of months and it suddenly reappeared as Channel 11.2 and 11.3 (Q2). I have no idea why this happens and there's nobody to ask. You may have to run your channels to find it. They seem to be rather loosey-goosey operations.

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Kachina624 — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 19:42:05 GMT

@Shawnie I also get all the Q and HSN stations on my Roku device which simplifies things.

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Shawnie — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 19:45:06 GMT

The channels are there but they are being replaced with Mystery TV and DefyTV. ****** aimed at Swamp Men, LOL. I rescanned my tv and they haven't been moved to another channel. So i thought the mods could find out what the heck is going on.

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kitcat51 — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 19:51:36 GMT

I watch Q & HSN over the air too & this afternoon both are gone. Antenna Man on Youtube has a video about subchannel shuffles & why it's happening....it's interesting & sadly more changes are coming in my viewing area.

Re: Lost OTA Signal

Kachina624 — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 19:53:44 GMT

@Shawnie I've asked the mods. They know nothing about that and referred me to the channel finder which just includes cable and satellite channels.

Wait a day or two and rescan. I betcha they reappear somewhere else.

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Shawnie — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 20:17:58 GMT

I don't understand why the mods can't find out who to contact at the company to get information. The company has paid to broadcast, so they must know whether they have ditched OTA or whether they are looking for another frequency to broadcast.

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On It — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 23:38:56 GMT

We still have HSN with our antenna reception but lost QVC which was replaced by QVC 2. It was very disappointing.

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qbetzforreal — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 01:02:40 GMT

The channels are there- check in the lower channels. In L.A.- they were moved from the 30s down to the 9-5 for QVC and 7-4 for QVC2.

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Sewinggal — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 03:45:28 GMT

I'm in Oregon and the same thing happened today. I was watching QVC on channel 22.5 on my antenna, went downstairs and when I came back up it was gone. Guess I will be saving some money.

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x Hedge — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 03:56:07 GMT

@Shawnie wrote:
I don't understand why the mods can't find out who to contact at the company to get information. The company has paid to broadcast, so they must know whether they have ditched OTA or whether they are looking for another frequency to broadcast.

Direct your enquiry to your local station manager.

Mods here can't answer this, it's your local broadcaster who can.

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Shawnie — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 11:26:25 GMT

@x Hedge wrote:
@Shawnie wrote:
I don't understand why the mods can't find out who to contact at the company to get information. The company has paid to broadcast, so they must know whether they have ditched OTA or whether they are looking for another frequency to broadcast.
Direct your enquiry to your local station manager.
Mods here can't answer this, it's your local broadcaster who can.

There is no local station manager to contact. Ion/Scribbs has discontinued broadcasting QVC/HSN. Presumably their paid contract with Curate expired. QVC/HSN is paid broadcasting because they do not allow a station to insert paid commercials. So someone at QVC/HSn knows why they are no longer broadcasting to these markets. Are they looking for other frequencies to broadcast???

Re: Lost OTA Signal

Johnnyeager — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 13:43:34 GMT

The HSN Channel Finder feature shows cable and broadcast locations for your zip code. There's probably no real reason QVC's couldn't provide the same, if they wanted to.

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Shawnie — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 14:31:56 GMT

@Johnnyeager wrote:
The HSN Channel Finder feature shows cable and broadcast locations for your zip code. There's probably no real reason QVC's couldn't provide the same, if they wanted to.

I agree. BTW the broadcast info for my area is out of date cause now we get nada,

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Luna45 — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 21:20:18 GMT

We have lost our OTA broadcast channels as well. They were replaced by defy and trureal. I hope QVC can get this sorted and get back into these markets. I miss my QVC! 😒

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Johnnyeager — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 15:19:35 GMT

My local ION station, which had still been carrying HSN, finally dropped it for Scripps programming, which is now on every subchannel, 31.1-31.6.

HSN is carried on a subchannel of the NY ABC affiliate, on 7.4.

I also just picked up ShopHQ which I never received over the air, 48.1.

QVC is on 48.4.

These things change frequently, so rescan often if you view OTA.

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Darssvt — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 12:26:53 GMT

I live in the Metro Detroit area and lost OTA programming for QVC and HSN also. Rescanned channels several times, channel guide still listing QVC & HSN but other programming is broadcasting. I've surfed channel by channel and they are GONE!

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de1rdre — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 13:47:46 GMT

Also in Northern Virginia. Both HSN and QVC were dropped by ION from 66.5 and 66.6. HSN2 remains available but HSN is gone. QVC had been broadcast on 49.3, but this morning it too disappeared. Time will tell whether Qurate finds other frequencies for its HSN and QVC programming.