Watching snow fall might be nice way to spend a lazy winter afternoon, but snowy reception is not what most people want to see on their televisions. Yet that's what greets TV viewers on certain channels. Most recently I've fielded complaints from some viewers who tune to WNPA, Pittsburgh's UPN affiliate, where they encounter a pixelated blizzard. It was easy to ignore fuzzy reception on Channel 19 before because the channel had little worth watching.
Miracles can happen.
There have also been complaints from nonsubscribers who can't get WNPA over the air. Trying to figure out the cause of the problem is tricky because I've also seen WNPA come in clearly on Adelphia and on Armstrong cable systems. Terrain may make it difficult to get the Channel 19 signal in some areas. Pointing an antenna east could help. For cable subscribers, there's no simple answer to reception trouble, whether it's on WNPA or another channel.