Vacation Reception Reports: The St. Louis Road Trip Oct. 1, 2012 (Part 3)

Greetings TV Garth readers! My road trip adventures continued with my pals Mr. A and Miss Mitzy Cream as we left JemCon in St. Louis and began our long journey home! (Check out Part 1 and Part 2 for the first portions of our trip!) This post resumes the action in the early AM as we checked out of the hotel we stayed at in Fishers, Indiana! Grab a snack and get ready for the final chapter of an Outrageous adventure that took TV Garth to the Midwest and back! (Channels mostly listed by PSIP numbers instead of RF frequencies for this recap!)

October 1, 2012

INDIANA

6-1 WRTV (ABC) Indianapolis, IN
There was a great shot of downtown Indianapolis on WRTV!



6-2 WRTV (HTSN) Indianapolis, IN
I scored a great station ID on WRTV's Hometown Sports and News subchannel!



13-1 WTHR (NBC) Indianapolis, IN
Anne Hathaway dreamed a dream of having a fabulous wedding, though some guests were rumoured to be Miserables.



13-3 WTHR (MeTV) Indianapolis, IN
Marlo Thomas was causing a commotion in the 1960s, prompting folks to ask who's That Girl?



19-1 WDNI (Telemundo) Indianapolis, IN
I've never caught a Telemundo affiliate in my neck of the woods, so it was cool to see WDNI!



20-1 WFYI (PBS) Indianapolis, IN
My Telly was having a nervous breakdown, but at least the WFYI logo was clear in the top left corner!



23-1 WNDY (MyTV) Indianapolis, IN
Matlock didn't need to solve the case of the missing station ID, as it showed up in the bottom corner just in time!



23-2 WNDY (Cool TV) Indianapolis, IN
It was Cool to see Daughtry on my little TV, since the music video network wasn't available at Home anymore!



29-1 WTTK (CW) Kokomo, IN
I was having New Adventures in Indiana with Old Christine on WTTK!



29-2 WTTK (This TV) Kokomo, IN
WTTK's This TV subchannel was running WXIN's newscast with Ray Cortopassi and Angela Ganote!



WXIN featured an AT&T U-verse tech report with Rich DeMuro.



46-1 WALV-CD Indianapolis, IN
Julia Moffitt was anchoring one of the WTHR news briefs seen on WALV-CD!



59-1 WXIN (FOX) Indianapolis, IN
I couldn't put my finger on why Angela Ganote's report disturbed me!



69-1 WDTI (Daystar) Indianapolis, IN
"Now hold on a minute, don't forget about Daystar programming!"



49-3 WIPB-D3 (PBS) Muncie, IN
During my travels I was quite surprised to find a weather subchannel on Muncie's PBS station WIPB!



15-3 WANE-WX (CBS) Fort Wayne, IN
The Olive Garden in Fort Wayne was on our radar, since we would have been Fury-ous if we didn't stop to eat.



21-3 WPTA-WX (ABC) Fort Wayne, IN
I'm not sure if any parents or teachers were associated with WPTA's Pinpoint Vipir radar!



39-4 WFWA (PBS) Fort Wayne, IN
I totally heart WFWA for having a subchannel called PBS4You!



55-1 WFFT (Ind) Fort Wayne, IN
WFFT was in a dispute with FOX and was briefly an independent station during this period before regaining their affiliation.



MICHIGAN

64-3 WLLA-D3 (FamilyNet) Kalamazoo, MI
FamilyNet station WLLA has popped up a few times in TV Garth territory!



41-1 WOTV (ABC) Battle Creek, MI
It wasn't too much of a Battle to catch this station ID for WOTV!



53-1 WLAJ (ABC) Lansing, MI
There's only One Life To Live, so I may as well enjoy capturing over-the-air TV while it lasts!



53-2 WLAJ-SD (CW) Lansing, MI
Meanwhile, it was time to Meet The Browns over on WLAJ's CW Plus subchannel!



23-3 WKAR (PBS Create) East Lansing, MI
It's hard to Create a funny caption for this shot of East Lansing's WKAR, but I'm sure I'll serve up something!



18-1 WHTV (MyTV) Jackson, MI
WHTV tore through my screen with a vigorous P90X workout!



25-1 WEYI (NBC) Saginaw, MI
The heavily hyped Katie sizzled over on Saginaw's WEYI!



25-2 WEYI-CW (CW) Saginaw, MI
I caught a nice NBC 25 station ID on WEYI's CW subchannel!



19-1 WDCQ (PBS) Bad Axe, MI
WDCQ is another station that has appeared in my area a few times!



ONTARIO

28-1 TVO Kitchener, ON
A little while after crossing the border, I picked up Kitchener's TV Ontario repeater!



5-1 CBLT (CBC) Toronto, ON
I was surprised to catch Toronto's CBLT while we were still in Southwestern Ontario.



Our crew made one last stop at a McDonald's in Kitchener before arriving at our respective homes.



HOME - Markham, ON

After throwing down my luggage, I was happy to see some of my "local" long distance stations coming in. Rochester, NY's WXXI (RF16) was there to welcome me back!



I Capitol-ized on my Rochester reception long enough to Report seeing Kevin Doran on WUHF (RF28.)



Rochester's WROC (RF45) also arrived with John Kucko, Stacey Pensgen, Kevin Doran and Maureen McGuire on the 11pm newscast!




My recap wouldn't be complete without showing some of the goodies I picked up! More or less in order of appearance are The Flint Journal, Detroit Free Press, The News-Banner (Bluffton, IN), Tribstar TV (Terre Haute Tribune Star), TV Week (The Indianapolis Star), Polly Pocket as Wonder Woman, JemCon souvenirs, TV Guide and the awesome Will Meugniot Sketch Book 2012!



Thanks to Mr. A, Miss Mitzy Cream and the fabulous folks of JemCon for an amazing trip! Stay tuned to TV Garth for more adventures in the future!