Logan Lake TV Society

06/19/2025

LLTVS President David Young’s endless volunteer work was awarded the 2025 Logan Lake Citizen of the Year! This well deserved title highlights David’s incredible contributions to keeping the TV system going. David continues to be instrumental in the transition to HEVC, a process that has been far from easy.

Thank you, David!

03/06/2025

Update from Logan Lake TV.

All our channels are working, but the on-screen Program Guide (Ch. 32.1) is off the air. The computer which generates the listing has run 24/7 for nearly 10 years, but has now given up the ghost. It will take us a couple of days to get a new one and get it configured. Please bear with us.

01/02/2025

It turns out that the Canadian feed for USA Network is different than the USA feed, as a number of Canadian programs had to be added to meet CRTC "Canadian content" rules. At the moment, only the US schedule is available and it's not even close to accurate. Our listings provider expects to have the Canadian line-up available shortly. We will add it and let you know as soon as possible.

The listings for Flavour and Home ARE accurate.

Sorry 'bout that!

01/01/2025

An update from Logan Lake TV.

Flavour (ch. 32.2), Home (Ch. 32.3) and USA Network (Ch. 34.2) are now up an running. You need not many any adjustments to your TV.

However, while many TVs will accomodate the changes automagically, but some will still identify as Food, HGTV and Disc when you first change the channel. Your TV will still get the Flavour/Home/USA Network signals, but if you wish your channel ID's to be correct, please run a Channel Search, found in the menus's of your TV. Advice on how to do that is found it article #3, under Help, on our website, LLTVS.ca.

Our on-screen program guide (Ch. 32.1) has the correct programming for Flavour and Home. However, there are four program listings options for the USA network. We have tried them all and, as of this morning, none match the actual programming. This may be due to last minute changes by the network, and may sort itself out, over the next day or two.

We will continue to watch it, and will contact our listings provider if necessary.

Thanks for reading.

Current News regarding our system.

12/25/2024

Breaking news! Our signals have been experiencing interference, neighbouring communities have also reported a similar issue. Reports all around the globe of jingle bells and occasional sounds of hooves on the roof seem to occur shortly before signal loss, if this happens to you, please rest easy as it will pass by morning. For more detailed information and location of this systemic issue, please visit https://www.noradsanta.org/en/map

Merry Christmas! 🎄🎅🎉

12/08/2024

At the end of 2024 we will see changes to three channels on Logan Lake TV.

HGTV will become Home, Food Network will become Flavour, and Discovery Channel will become USA Network.

Home, Flavour, and USA Network will all have similar programming to their previous incarnations, with some changes.

USA Network is one of the top 3 cable channels in the U.S. and will be home to previous Discovery channel favourites such as Highway Thru Hell. It will also feature East Harbour Heros, The Mighty, Suits, The Traitors and the upcoming CIA Mini-series, Debriefing the President.

Your televisions should seamlessly handle these changes.

These changes are due to changes in network ownership, are beyond our control and we thank you for your understanding.

11/30/2024

We believe we have solved the remaining issues with our system, and it all seems to be running just fine. However, Channel 16 will be off-air for up to two hours, Saturday morning, starting shortly after 9am. We need to replace the cooling fans in the transmitter.

It’s either that, or we wait for it to die, and then send it away for a thousand dollar plus repair and be without channel 16 for two weeks. We felt that 2 hours would be preferable.

We are sorry for the inconvenience, but trust you will understand.

11/25/2024

The Fire Log is now available on 30-2!

11/03/2024

An update from Logan Lake TV...

Last Wednesday night, we received the latest update from Sencore, our equipment supplier for the new HEVC conversions. We installed it on the transcoder that down-converted the networks which were our biggest challenges, between 5 and 5:30 am, on Halloween, and then watched it to see if the sound drifted. It didn’t, so around noon, the next day, we upgraded the remaining 4 transcoders. And then we watched. Carefully.

Our first bonus was that every TV in town works with the new upgrade!

As of Noon, Sunday, our first transcoder has been running for over 78 hours, while the other four have been operational for 48 hours and the lip-sync is holding on all channels.

We will continue to watch, but if this continues for another 72 hours, I think we will safely be able to say that the problems associated with the new HEVC are behind us!

The problems with HVEC are legendary, and have affected small systems, like ours, across North America. For systems not using Sencore equipment, it is still causing problems.

It has has been a long slog – consuming many hundreds of volunteer hours, as we have worked with the engineers at Sencore to solve the problems – though we admit, they did the really heavy lifting.

But, we are optimistic that these problems are a thing of the past.

For those with a mildly technical bent, a not too detailed explanation of the problem and it’s solution is on our website. The link is on the main news page, at: LLTVS.ca

We thank you for your patience and understanding, throughout this ordeal.

Current News regarding our system.

10/30/2024

Today's power outage caused us some headaches. We have been on-site since 1:30 pm. All our radio stations were restored by 2PM but the TV took a little longer. Now, at 5:20 PM. all our channels are again running. If you did a channel search, while things were off-air, you may need to do a channel search again. Check your TV channels before you do it, as not all TVs will need it done.
We regret the inconvenience.

09/25/2024

Yesterday, we did a firmware update on our transcoders and for most it seems to be a big improvement.

However, it also seems to have caused a small number of TVs to stop working and unfortunately, we only learned of this around 8pm last night. As I write, it is just after 6am, we’ve already been in touch, twice, with the equipment's maker.

We want to solve this as soon as possible, and for that we need your help. If you have not turned on your TV since 1pm, yesterday (Sept. 24th), please do so as soon as convenient and see if it receives any programs. If it does, that’s great, and you need do nothing more.

If it does not work, we ask that you do a “channel search” on the affected sets, to see if that restores service.

If you need help doing a channel search, please read article #3 under HELP, on our website... LLTVS.ca.

If doing the Channel Search restores things, great! But either way, please let us know, right away, whether the channel search worked or not, and the brand of the affected TV, so we can pass that information on to Sencore. This information will help them sort things.

I am working in Merritt, today, so please send the information via text to 250.320.6215 or email at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]).

We apologize for this unexpected inconvenience, and appreciate your helping us to understand the cause and find a cure.

Current News regarding our system.

08/28/2024

A reminder from Logan Lake TV.
As we advised on August 14th, OLN is being discontinued as of August 30th. You can expect OLN to go off the air sometime on the evening of Friday, August 30th.

We are working on replacement programming, but that will take a bit of time.

If OLN is one of your favourite networks, we can only apologize. This is neither our doing, nor our decision. We hope to have a further update for you, soon. Thank you.