Don't know how far into the U.S. the show reached, but I think we saw it on channel 9 from Windsor. The show actually began in Madison, Wisconsin on WHA-TV in 1953, before moving to Canada and the CBC in 1958. Coneybeare replaced he original puppeteer back in Madison, as apparently he could not mak...

Watching COZI or THIS on 48 would be better than [Justice]. At least they don't interrupt the shows with local ads on those 2 channels. But then again, channel 48 has been a perennial engineering dumpster fire, with mismatched volume levels between the feed and local commercials, as well as all loc...

Wonder if WLMB channel 40 would be interested in picking up MeTV. Seems like a good fit for them, since they air similar shows to MeTV, when they're not airing religious programming. They only have one subchannel, "Radiant TV" last I checked, so perhaps MeTV could be on 40-3. No way would they even...

Comcast Sandusky is a joke of a lineup (only about 40 channels). The only good thing about it is their grandfathered carriage of 5, 12, and 25 from Flint/Saginaw. And let me guess -- it's all standard def only. With no phone or internet offered. Amazing that a cable system is stuck in the 1980s, wh...

Due to Comcast being cheap, they will only have WDCQ for PBS in Flint as of next month. I believe in the Sandusky area, the Comcast system doesn't carry any PBS outlet at all since the closure of WCMZ, as they made no effort to import local market station WTVS, or WDCQ, which has some roots in the ...

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Tue Sep 10, 2019 5:03 am

Were any of these stations sometimes blocked, due to the FCC's "Network Non-Duplication and Syndicated Exclusivity" rules?

Definitely not 23, which is affiliated with PBS. No doubt WKAR won't be pleased with Comcast's actions, as it means less pledges.

Apparently, that's exactly what it was, and it shared the channel with Bravo (which had been launched two years earlier). I hadn't heard of it before either. Not the Bravo we know today? Bravo was like A&E was, featuring cultural entertainment programming, though Bravo was more upmarket. Today's Br...

Here's the cable lineup for Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario in December of '89: (3) WNEM Bay City (NBC) ... (30) Home Shopping Interestingly, neither of northern Michigan's ABC or NBC affiliates were apprently carried in the Sault then. I once asked a headend engineer there why WTOM and WGTQ weren't on t...

I also remember on WNEM 5 when the late Jim Peyton did the Holiday Inn in Buena Vista in 1976 & in 1977!! Also the late Jim Rush & Mel Serow at the Shearton in Pearson Road in Flint back then!!! Also the late Chuck Waters at the Hampton Square Mall in Essexville in 1979, 1980 & 1981!! Any of those ...

The last time that I heard the same announcer since August 28, 1979 was in March of 1984 when he said "That's Quiet Riot "Bang Your Head" (edited version) NOW "Stuck On You" by Lionel Richie" but that was it. That same announcer said "That's Marvin Gaye" (BUT did not say "Sexual Healing" when it wa...

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Thu Aug 15, 2019 9:59 am

A couple preemptions of note this week. First, looks like WDIV Local 4 has paid programming from 8 to 9 pm tonight (Thursday August 15) preempting another rerun of NBC's "The Wall."

"Smile Train" again?

So it's a rerun. Yeah. It was brought up because it's during primetime and that's kinda significant. In my eyes that says a lot about a station's financial situation if they're willing to put paid programming on during primetime hours. As discussed on the Detroit board, the "paid programming" on WD...

Showing "paid programming" during the 8pm hour on a Thursday night? This shit should be on at 4am on a Sunday morning. They are showing some bullshit about deformed Vietnamese kids. Yeah I know it's the middle of July but NBCs legacy is Thursday night. Just a strange programming decision. You sound...

Spirit 90.5 streams -- one of my superiors back in Florida where I worked listened online, alternating between them and The Joy FM, another local CCM station in Tampa Bay that also streams.

I believe Bad Axe had one or two commercial TV allotments in the analog era. I know Port Huron had one. Obviously, they were never built. WDCQ (PBS) is licensed to Bad Axe and originally had its analog transmitter at Ubly, south of Bad Axe, but relocated its digital transmitter to closer to Bay Cit...