Selective TV

12/17/2024

View Lillian Lorraine Ortendahl's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

12/16/2024

INSTALLATION COMPLETE
All channels are back up. If you find you are missing some channels you may have to rescan. Thanks for your patience during the installation of the new equipment.

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12/16/2024

PLANNED OUTAGE
The installation of the new DMG which was to have taken place last Monday December 9th will, according to our engineer take place beginning at 10:00AM this morning December 16th. Channels 4, 5, 9, 11, 14, 23, and 41 will be off the air during the installation which should take an hour or two at the most according to our engineer. If anything changes I will keep you posted.

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12/13/2024

LONGEST SERVING BOARD MEMBER
Lil Ortendahl passed away Wednesday December 11th 2024 one day before her 89th birthday. Lil served on the Selective TV board of directors for over 30 years and attended her final annual members meeting in July of 2024. Lil was a tireless advocate for local over the air television and helped to lead Selective TV through a remarkable array of changes over the years. Lil was also very active with many other organizations and causes her entire adult life. Funeral arrangements for Lil are pending with the Roy Hetland funeral home in Osakis

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12/07/2024

Jingle bells
Just want to let folks know if you are trying to watch jingle bells telethon on 20.5 the audio and video are way out of sinc. This is not a selective tv issue. There is a technical glitch somewhere, either the equipment that is sending out the signal or the equipment that is recieving the signal. I have tried to notify the crew at the performing arts center.

11/03/2024

KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED
Looks like everything is back up and stable. If you rescanned during the outage or you are missing channels you will have to rescan again. Remember, when an event like this happens do not rescan, in effect you end up locking channels out because they are not there when you rescan and then you have to rescan again once the channels are back. It was a very unusual and unlikely series of events that created this problem initially proving that even though you try and anticipate every scenario and take every precaution you can sometimes the bear gets you anyway.

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11/03/2024

UPDATE 11/3/2/4 7:18AM
I know everyone is wondering what is going on and will we be able to watch the Vikings tonight. I am communicating with our engineer this morning and don't have anything definitive yet. One possibility is that the component sent to us is defective. That component is a loner which was sent to us to use while we wait for the brand new component to arrive. Will keep you posted.

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11/02/2024

Our engineer is doing some fine tuning with the new equipment so we may see some temporary blinks on some of the channels.

11/01/2024

CHANNEL UPDATE 11/1/24
All channels have been restored as of about 2pm today. If you re scanned during the outage you will have to re scan again. If you did not re scan but find you are missing some channels you should also re scan. Once again, thanks for your patience and understanding during this event.

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10/31/2024

UPDATE 3:12pm 10/31/24
I am so sorry to have to report we have run into a snag and the missing channels will not be restored until sometime tomorrow
11/1/24. I just got word minutes ago and am passing it along to everyone as quickly as possible. I know everyone will be disappointed, trust me, so am I. Will keep you posted.

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10/30/2024

UPDATE 9:40AM 10/30/24
We have made arrangements with the company that provides this piece of equipment called a DMG (digital management gateway)
to over night a loner DMG which will arrive and be installed tomorrow.
We will purchase a new DMG from them and send in the old one to be repaired. So the good news is that we will end up with a new DMG and a backup DMG, the bad news is that all the channels will not be restored until sometime tomorrow. I suppose it could be worse, this is bad enough, but in a way perhaps it will remind folks just how much they depend on Selective TV, and encourage those folks who are not contributing members to finally do the right thing. With the huge expense of this repair now would be a great time to do that. Annual membership is $150.00 a year and checks can be sent to Selective TV, 2308 South Broadway, Suite 2, Alexandria, MN 56308

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10/30/2024

UPDATE ON CHANNELS
10/30/2024
We don't have all the answers yet and I will update again later in the day but here is what we do know as of 8:00am. There was a power outage in the Twin Cities yesterday morning that affected a vital piece of equipment Selective TV depends on to get the network signals up to us. Often times when the power comes back on there is a surge of power that can damage or destroy sensitive broadcast equipment apparently that is what has happened. The next question is can that piece of equipment be repaired or does it have to be replaced. At this time it appears it will have to be replaced. Next question, how long will it take to receive and install the new piece of equipment. As I write this morning I do not have the answer to that question but hope to have the answer later this morning. As soon as I do I will update again. This is a 30 thousand dollar piece of equipment and that is why we don't have a spare one just sitting around that we can just plug in. These power surges have become more of a problem for a variety of reasons I won't go into now. We are working to do what we can to protect our equipment from this type of damage and we are working to get the current issue fixed as soon as is humanly possible. In the meantime we appreciate your patience and understanding. I will update again as soon as I have more information.

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10/29/2024

There was a power outage in the twin cities that has affected ou network feeds. We are working on correcting the problem.

08/22/2024

REELZ HAS NEW CHANNEL
Reelz TV has moved from channel 21.2 to channel 1.3 replacing the NASA channel. We can no longer receive NASA via satellite so the decision was made to drop it from the lineup. We moved Reelz TV to the old NASA spot to free up channel 21 for some new channels we are working to acquire and add to the Selective TV line up. There will more on that later

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07/31/2024

REA power outage
A large REA power outage has taken Selective TV off the air. When the power is restored Selective channels will be back. Channel 42 is still on the air.

07/09/2024

NEW OFFICE MANAGER & OFFICE HOURS
Beginning August 1st Selective TV will have a new office manager and new office hours. The new office manager is Dan Hovel. Dan has extensive experience with over the air television, antenna installation, and home entertainment systems. He has been training with Lonnie for the last couple of months and is ready to take over.
Lonnie will remain active as Dan's office backup and vice president of the board of directors. The new office hours beginning August 1st will be Mondays from 2:00PM - 5:00PM, and Thursdays from 8:00AM- Noon.

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06/25/2024

RECEPTION ISSUES
I have received a couple of calls on channel 15. Two things to know. One, Selective TV does not transmit channel 15. It comes directly from the broadcaster. Two, we have some pretty strong "skip" going on right now that may effect your reception of 15 and other channels. Looks like the skip should begin to clear out toward the end of the week when the atmosphere stabilizes. Do Not Rescan.

06/13/2024

CHANNEL 7
Some of you may have found channel 7 popping up on your tv. This channel is not part of Selective TV. This is the VHF signal that used to belong to WCCO which now belongs to a religious broadcasting company. The signal is actually directed towards the twin cities so you may pick it up but it may not be reliable. But again this channel is not part of the Selective TV system.

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