WPCNR MEDIA SCOPE. By John F. Bailey. October 19, 2007 UPDATED OCTOBER 21, 2007: If you tried to tune in It'll Get Better  Friday night, or White Plains Week, the controversial city news roundup show, on Channel 76,  or the balance of White Plains Public Access TV's programming lineup, at least as of 8:15 P.M.  you could not hear them Friday night due to a very low, static-obscurred audio track.

Jim Kinney, The Executive Director of White Plains Cable Television, told WPCNR Saturday morning the ongoing problem that White Plains cable has been dealing with for years with Cablevision is definitely related to a Cablevision problem, denying a Cablevision representative's comment who told WPCNR Friday evening the problem had to be "a weak signal" from the originating public access station, because she said all the other channels on WPCNR's selection were clear and normal.

Kenny said the public access channel had been working with Cablevision technical personnel recently for a week to correct the problem. "we swapped out modulators with Cablevision, and all I  can tell you is when the signal leaves the station, it has a light that signals whether it is going out at the proper level. This is very frustrating. It's not just you, but 70 other producers that complain when they cannot be heard."

To make out even a semblance of what was being sung or said, devotees of Public Access Television  had to turn your volume all the way up, and even then you had to put your ear to the television speaker. You could see shows, but you could not hear them unless you could read lips.

John Bailey, Peter Katz, and Jim  Benerofe, the White Plains Week news team and the entire Friday night Channel 76 programming lineup needed closed captioning tonight (Friday evening) as White Plains Public Access Television experienced audio difficulties in various sections of the city for unknown reasons.

 Similar "sound-outs" were reported across White Plains in the Highlands, in Saxon Woods, and at WPCNR World News Headquarters in Haviland Manor. This is a recurring phenomenon.

WPCNR did some checking.

A representative of Cablevision was contacted Friday evening by yours truly, and when a living, live representative was reached, they had me check my cablevision box settings. They informed me that the Audio setting ("narrow") was correct and that if all other channels were at normal volume, then the problem, in their opinion, was due to a "weak signal" from the Public Access Channel. This was odd because the signal on Channel 75 and Channel 77 put out by White Plains Public Access was coming through fine this evening.

WPCNR has contacted members of the White Plains Cable TV Commission  tonight to look into this recurring problem, which seems to afflict only Channel 76, and has been happening frequently for seven years.