Television viewers in the Boulder and Basin areas may have noticed changes to their channel lineup over the past few months. In July, technical changes made by the NBC affiliate in Missoula caused the loss of the 6.x channel range for local residents.
“There wasn’t really any warning,” Rick Haasakker of Boulder TV told The Monitor. “We knew they had plans to make the changes, but we didn’t know when. It just sort of happened unexpectedly in July during the Olympics.” Boulder TV is a private organization that supplies over-the-air television services to Boulder and Basin.
Haasakker explained that the Missoula station, KECI, moved its signal from VHF channel 6 frequency to UHF channel 20. This change meant that the antennas Boulder TV uses to receive and relay over-the-air (OTA) channels no longer could receive the signals. Haasakker said that attempts to use UHF antennas to receive the signals were unsuccessful.
