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DTV Transition Setting In
Well the transition to Digital TV is setting at the Repetski household now. I got a chance to surf the channels today after the men’s Wimbledon championships, and I found myself somewhat confused. For some background knowledge, we don’t have have a set-top box; the coax cable from the wall goes directly into our TV, unlike most Cox customers. We really don’t watch TV enough to care about getting some of the higher channels, only the expanded basic – which is still about 200 channels, according to our TV. It detected 78 analog stations and 99 digital ones.
So when I was surfing the channels, I noticed decimal places in many of the TV stations. For me, I still remember our old TV predating widely-used remotes with the dial that had a total of 32-some channels, so this was quite a change.
So now I have to re-do the TV station guide I made for my family – my brother really likes lists and my parents find it more convenient in that form – which sets me up to watch plenty of TV. Because of course it would be too convenient for Cox to publish the TV listings for those without set-top boxes. So here I go, publishing them for myself and for others who may find themselves in the same situation. It’s far from being complete at this point, but I’ll update it as I get more of the information.
Cox Communications – Fairfax, Virginia – TV Channel Listings
Channel Station
2 Telefutura
3 Jewelry TV
4 Home Shopping Network (HSN)
4.1 NBC HD
4.2 NBC
4.3 NBC - Universal Sports
5.1 FOX
7.1 WJLA
7.2 WJLA - WTOP
7.3 WJLA - RTV
8 ABC News
9.1 WUSA - CBS
9.2 WUSA - CBS
12
14 Telemundo
15 WPXW - Ion Television
15.1 WPXW - Ion Television
16
17 TBS
18 GMU - TV
19 NVCC - TV
20 My 20
20.1 My 20
21
22.1 WMPT - PBS
26.3 WETA - Kids
31 WGN
32.1 WHUT
34 NBC
35 FOX
37 WJLA
39 CBS
41 C-SPAN
42.1
42.810
42.830
42.837 WEBR - Fairfax Radio
43
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