Cox Communication has recently changed their
television program delivery to ‘a purely digital signal’. According to Cox
‘this upgrade to All digital will impact any
televisions that currently receive an analog-only signal’. I found the process
to obtain a free mini box (free for one-year) for one of my older televisions
to be really easy and Cox was very responsive. I called their phone number,
858-836-7983, pushed a few buttons and received the box in the mail the next
day! (You can also go to their website for help) It took me less then 10-minutes to
hook the box up and I’m now able to watch KOCT in my home office. (I’ve got to
get my LIVE council fix!) Please let KOCT know if YOU have any problems
receiving KOCT’s Channel 18 or Channel 19 during this digital transition.
E-mail us at KOCT@KOCT.org or call the station at 760-722-4433 during
normal business hours.
Measure A ALERT: Tell your Carlsbad friends they are going
to want to watch KOCT on January 7th, Community Channel 18 at 7
pm. KOCT will be having a Special Election 2016 Journalist Roundtable on
Measure A —the strawberry fields project initiative. We’ll have a Proponent of
the Caruso shopping mall, Carlsbad Mayor Matt Hall and we’ll have an Opponent:
Cori Schumacher with Citizens for North County.
It’s easy for them to watch this
high-definition program by going to KOCT.ORG and then clicking on the Streaming
18 button, or they
can watch as Video On Demand throughout the month of January and right up
to the February 23rd special election.
Buy a Banner Ad on KOCT.ORG-A simple way to help KOCT and promote your
organization at the same time is to buy a Banner Ad on KOCT.ORG These small banners adorn the
KOCT home page, VOD and News pages on the lower left side of each page.
Prices range from $150 for 3 months to $300 for a full year. Buy a Banner
Page and you let our community know that you support independent, local media
while also promoting your business or service club.
IF you had told me when I started at KOCT that one day
our highest quality hi-definition
television signal would not be what
we air via cable but instead distributed via our internet signal I’d have asked
if you were dizzy and needed to sit down. But thanks to the effort of a
lot of people, that is the KOCT reality. It started with a grant from the
County of San Diego to upgrade our Mobile Studio to Hi-Definition. Thanks to
Supervisor Bill Horn and all of the Supervisors for their support of community
television. (And thanks to KOCT Grant Writers Carol Mudgett and KOCT
Station Manager Jake Rush for a successful application!)
The equipment would still be in boxes if it wasn’t for
our amazing Chief Engineer Bill Peters and the hundreds of hours he has
invested to install, test and troubleshoot this new technology. KOCT’s IT Specialist
Phoenix Von Hendy has also been busy converting all of our Editing Suites to
Hi-Def. And then I have to acknowledge & thank my two key staff
members; Production Supervisor Angela Miranda and Station Manager Jake Rush who
have had to learn how to use the new sophisticated Switcher, cameras and how to
process the subsequent giant files of information. They are talented and
tenacious in grappling with this huge learning curve. So when we go
into 2016, ALL of KOCT’s programs will be produced, recorded and edited in
Hi-Def. Whoa now I’m starting to feel a little Dizzy!
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