Boulder TV restores missing NBC channels

The channels that disappeared last summer from Boulder TV have finally been restored.

The digital channels in the 6.x range – programming from NBC – vanished unexpectedly from local televisions last summer, during broadcasts of the 2024 Olympics. Boulder TV’s Rick Haasakker explained at the time that the relay of the signal originating from Missoula had been lost, and that he was looking at other methods to deliver the stations. 

Those stations were successfully brought back in early March. “We worked with Blackfoot Communications, and they set up a dedicated circuit between Missoula and Boulder,” Haasakker said. The new circuit, he added, provides 30 megabytes of uninterrupted, dedicated traffic to Boulder TV’s transmission tower, meeting the demand of television broadcasts for greater network bandwidth.