90.7 Charlotte 93.7 Southern Pines 90.3 Hickory 106.1 Laurinburg

TV Frequency Changes Mean Antenna Users Need To Rescan

If you get TV over the airwaves (not cable or satellite), you'll need to rescan Friday to keep Charlotte's public TV channel.
FCC

A three-year project to reallocate television broadcast frequencies nationwide is finishing up, and that means changes if you get TV using an antenna. 

On Friday at 12:30 p.m., WTVI PBS Charlotte will become the final station in the Charlotte area to make the switch. Eleven other Charlotte-area stations made the change last fall.

It doesn't affect the channel number, but if you rely on an over-the-air signal instead of cable or satellite, you'll need to rescan your TV Friday afternoon in order to continue receiving the channel.  

It's part of a federal effort to open new spectrum for high-speed wireless services.

For more about the change and how to set your TV to rescan the channels, visit https://www.wtvi.org/news/plan-to-rescan/ or https://www.tvanswers.org/.

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Email
David Boraks previously covered climate change and the environment for WFAE. See more at www.wfae.org/climate-news. He also has covered housing and homelessness, energy and the environment, transportation and business.