Baltimore, MD gets local HD news courtesy of FOX 45
[Thanks, Rob]
[Thanks, Rob]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Bmurph @ Jun 3rd 2008 6:17AM
Hopefully a rival station does follow suit soon. I can't stand Fox 45's news.
Tim @ Jun 3rd 2008 9:23AM
Can't stand those neocon bastards either.
Dagwood @ Jun 3rd 2008 7:09AM
I watch WUSA9 out of DC for HD local news. Baltimore news tends to be less watchable. Local news is hard enough to watch with all the prescription drug ads. I will check out fox45 for a least a night or two. More HD is always a good thing.
lucyfan62 @ Jun 3rd 2008 8:32AM
There aren't many anchors in Baltimore that you want to see in HD! It is strange that the Fox affiliate went HD before any of the other majors. The NBC affiliate has always had major stretch-o-vision issues when they switch to local broadcast but I think after the two years that I've had an HD TV they've finally figured out how to correct that.
Faysal @ Aug 15th 2008 9:49AM
Well it looks to me as if most of the time,a market's first HD news station isn't always the best news station in that area.If you look at nearby Washington,CBS station WUSA-TV was first to go HD,but they are NOT the best station in terms of broadcasting the news as rival stations WRC (NBC) & WJLA (ABC) lead the way.However,the ABC station does have plans to get an HD upgrade in the future.The same goes for WBAL in Baltimore,who is the city's leading station at this time.I don't think WBFF's HD upgrade is strange,it's just happened for the success they have had over time despite lagging behind in terms of their ratings.
Papa Midnight @ Jun 3rd 2008 10:29AM
Oh I'm sure it works great... for those who get it. WBFF broadcast at such low power that those of us in my area do not get it OTA without using at minimal a powered antenna or a signal amplifier. Considering I have neither (And DishNetwork wants $100 up front just to get an HD receiver on top of the rental fee and service fee - Comcast is not an option), WBFF is a no shot for me.
FOX45 News hasn't exactly had the best newscasting either. Realistically, for a decent news cast in Baltimore, WBAL and WJZ are the ways to go.
Carney @ Jun 3rd 2008 10:51AM
I'm Baltimore-area antenna-only HDTV with no sat or cable TV. I'm no
big fan of TV news, broadcast news especially. My wife likes morning
TV like "Today" and we sometimes watch the national newscasts, but we find them shallow, outdated and biased.
Local news is less biased, but it's less necessary than it's been
with digital TV simulcasts of all-weather channels.
Of all the Baltimore-area local newscasts, I think Fox 45 is the
least annoying, and it's the one we watch the most. Which isn't
saying much.
Local news anywhere tends to be a unrelenting barrage of "consumer
news" scare-mongering ("will this commonly used product cause
CANCER?" - yes if you believe an animal study where rats consumed the equivalent of tons every day for 800 years) and slum crime (""a fatal
shooting in the xx-hundred block of blah blah .... no
suspects"...with a still photo - if your still photo is being aired
on TV, it's not a good thing).
Carney @ Jun 3rd 2008 10:54AM
Just to clarify, I've seen the promos for the upcoming switch to HD, but have not caught an HD newscast from 45 yet. Thus far I've only seen their shows in SD, albeit in digital.
The 720p signal from 45 has always looked a bit blurry to me on our older 1080i picture tube; not much better on our 1080p LCD. Anyone confirm / deny? How about a 720p TV owner?
Papa Midnight @ Jun 3rd 2008 11:33PM
Ah, aka: WBAL.
Chris Kominczak @ Jun 3rd 2008 4:52PM
KVUE News, the ABC affiliate in Austin, also went HD yesterday.
Harry in Baltimore @ Jun 6th 2008 1:11AM
Tim: so much for the tolerance of the left. Stalin, too, was on the left; very tolerant man, right? And BTW - Fox45 has won the most awards of any news station in MD for thier CONTENT. They do a good job, generally more complete than the others, because their newcast is 50 minutes, not including sports. But I digress...
The Fox45 broadcast looks awesome. I'm watching it through Comcast, so even with whatever downcompression they use to mangle it, the broadcast looks good. And audio calrity is noticeaby superior to what they had before, which wasn't bad.
As for the appearance of on-air talent - check out Candace Dold. Rrrrrr.....
James @ Jun 11th 2008 11:03PM
Candace Dold in high definition - it doesn't get better than that
Donta @ Jul 8th 2008 12:54PM
People let up off of FOX 45 If you do not like It do not watch It It Is a major player In the mid-atlantic as far as local news. The truck load of emmy awards that they get every year for there news operation shows that. I think that people have Issues with Sinclair which Is an arm of the repubican party and the negative comments directed at FOX 45 news are very misguided WBAL and WJZ have nothing on FOX 45 when It comes to news content and substance.WJZ needs a new set and graphics VERY BADLY.