WBAY

After months of broadcasting at limited power, Green Bay stations WBAY and WPNE are both back up to full broadcasting power.

The final transmission line replacement repair took place yesterday, taking WBAY off the air for about an hour.  

WBAY and Wisconsin Public Television's WPNE share a transmission line.

Over-the-air transmission of WBAY and WPNE resumed Saturday evening, but only at about 25 percent of normal power.  But repairs necessary to bring both broadcasters back to normal operation may be delayed at least two weeks, according to the Green Bay Press-Gazette.

After being off the air for nearly six hours today, WBAY is reporting their signal and that of WPNE (Wisconsin Public Television) cannot be restored this afternoon as hoped.  Both broadcasters, which share a tower on Scray's Hill near Green Bay, had gone off the air beginning at 9 AM to diagnose transmitter problems that started to impact their signals last night.  The problem was believed by station officials to be electrical in nature.

Six local broadcast channels will go dark for six hours Friday morning to facilitate transmitter repair diagnosis.  The process will leave antenna viewers, and some cable and satellite customers, without WBAY and Wisconsin Public Television starting at 9 AM.

The repairs will also affect the two broadcasters' digital subchannels.

WBAY has changed up the schedule for its Retro Television Network subchannel.

WBAY RTN 2.3 now features a few new classic television series including Peter Gunn, Daniel Boone and Robin Hood.

The new schedule can be found on WBAY's website.

In a reversal of course from its previous programming shakeup, WBAY has just announced on its website that starting Tuesday, November 10th, it will air ABC's new hit series V in it's regularly-scheduled Tuesday 7:00 PM time slot for the rest of November, in its normal high-definition format.

It had preempted the series premiere last night for its locally-produced Tuesday Night Touchback, an hour-long Packers talk show, and previously planned to do so all month long.  For the rest of November, Touchback will air in place of syndicated show The Insider at 6:30 PM and last a half-hour instead of its usual hour.

The V series premiere that was scheduled to air last night will repeat this Saturday evening at 11:05 PM, unless college football pushes it back.