New station: WCSN-LP - Providing HD/SD?

[rlw]

There was an article in the Dispatch (http://www.dispatch.com/features-story.php?story=dispatch/2007/03/15/20070315-E4-02.html) today about WCSN picking Ray Crawford as their anchor for the "Columbus Sports Network". They will be carrying The Crew, Destroyers, local high school and college games, and also "sports news". They are scheduled to begin production on March 24.

WCSN has its antenna on WOSU's tower - AFAIK, on Olentangy River Rd. at Ackerman/Doddridge. The FCC website (http://www.fccinfo.com/CMDProEngine.php?sCurrentService=TV&tabSearchType=Appl&sAppIDNumber=1104697) shows it as being a low power analog station. The propagation map looks like they push more power to the north than the south. Down here, west of Lancaster, I get a fairly good analog signal on channel 32 (at least for an LP station, just a tad fuzzy). Currently, they just have a colorbar on that channel. From the Dispatch article:
The network’s home will be Channel 32.
CSN will be shown on channels 78 and 524 on the Insight cable system, Channel 97 on the WOW cable system, and Channel 78 on Time Warner Cable Mid-Ohio Division.Does anyone know if they will be providing a digital signal (at least, before February, 2009)?

Any chance they'll bump their power up?

If so, perhaps there should be a new sub-forum in the local Columbus Stations list for them.

RLW

[TvPat]

The same company that owns analog channel 32 has applied for a digital LP station on channel 33.

http://www.fccinfo.com/CMDProEngine.php?sCurrentService=TV&tabSearchType=Appl&sAppIDNumber=1151354

This is pretty cool, a local all sports station. Hopefully they'll also try to carry other syndicated broadcasts that would be cleared for this area, such as Cleveland Cavaliers, MAC sports, Big East sports, SEC sports, etc. The old channel 8 used to do that. I hope this venture works out well.

[Robbiee19]

http://www.columbussports.net/
here is the link to the web site for Columbus Sport Net.

[dgomer]

Is CSN broadcasting now? or is it only on when there is an event they are covering?

[festivus]

This is great! Especially since I love HS Football and can't get ONN on Dish. I wonder how the agreements will be structured for airing live games, especially the playoffs.