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- Tue Nov 05, 2019 12:27 am
- Forum: Network & Syndicated Radio and TV
- Topic: Network programming preemptions by individual stations
- Replies: 88
- Views: 14703
Re: Network programming preemptions by individual stations
I often ponder why, instead of not showing the shows that get pre-empted, WDIV don't move them to 4-2 or 4-3 at the same time. Maybe they fear everyone will just change channels and not watch what they have replaced it with. Exactly -- they did not want to compete with themselves by putting its nor...
- Mon Nov 04, 2019 12:01 am
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: Here's why WDWO-TV 18.1 now airs Azteca America programming...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 585
Re: Here's why WDWO-TV 18.1 now airs Azteca America programming...
Too bad it's not a heavy hitter like Univision (which Detroit had two different affiliates in the past) or Telemundo (which never affiliated in Detroit).Some Guy from Toledo wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2019 8:39 pmWell at least Detroit has another Spanish language channel, for now.
- Sun Nov 03, 2019 11:56 pm
- Forum: Neighboring States/Ontario
- Topic: CTV News Windsor
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1090
Re: CTV News Windsor
Curiously, my Spectrum system serving Rockland and Central Maine offers Radio-Canada from CKSH Sherbrooke (as well as TVA outlet CHLT), but no English-language CBC, from CBMT or otherwise. Odd they wouldn't provide a CBC station, yet pick up Radio-Canada and TVA. Noticed this image while Googling a...
- Sun Nov 03, 2019 1:25 am
- Forum: Remembering the Golden Years
- Topic: RIP Jerome the Giraffe and Rust the Rooster
- Replies: 15
- Views: 721
Re: RIP Jerome the Giraffe and Rust the Rooster
The show was on CH9 Windsor, so there are a few 50-somethings in Toledo that know that recorder song as the drawbridge goes up and down and the Friendly Giant invites you to pick a chair.... speaking of which, is that a specific song and is there a copy of it somewhere? Don't forget us 40-something...
- Sun Nov 03, 2019 1:19 am
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: Here's why WDWO-TV 18.1 now airs Azteca America programming...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 585
Re: Here's why WDWO-TV 18.1 now airs Azteca America programming...
- Fri Nov 01, 2019 11:41 pm
- Forum: Neighboring States/Ontario
- Topic: CTV News Windsor
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1090
Re: CTV News Windsor
I touched on this earlier, wondering why CBMT was so widely available on Michigan cable systems outside of the Detroit area - instead of CBET. I believe the answer basically boiled down to easy satellite availability of CBMT... At one time, I believe, CKLW-TV / CBET was distributed on the same micr...
- Thu Oct 31, 2019 9:58 pm
- Forum: Neighboring States/Ontario
- Topic: WTOL may be removing MeTV
- Replies: 86
- Views: 3823
Re: WTOL may be removing MeTV
Quite a few Sinclair stations carry Antenna TV, so there should be no reason not to pick it up.
- Thu Oct 31, 2019 9:35 pm
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: CICO-32 in Windsor
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2387
Re: CICO-32 in Windsor
The CRTC is strict, I don't think that CBET (or any Canadian station for that matter) can target more than 20% of its advertising to non-Canadian areas. And all Canadian stations and cable channels (yes, they control cable TV over there!) have to air Canadian programming on 60% of their schedule, s...
- Sun Oct 20, 2019 11:53 pm
- Forum: Neighboring States/Ontario
- Topic: WTOL may be removing MeTV
- Replies: 86
- Views: 3823
Re: WTOL may be removing MeTV
Cable 13 in Palm Springs is NBC affiliate KMIR, which uses its analog channel, 36.x, as its PSIP, and actually broadcasts on channel 26:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMIR-TV
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMIR-TV
- Sun Oct 20, 2019 12:10 am
- Forum: Neighboring States/Ontario
- Topic: WTOL may be removing MeTV
- Replies: 86
- Views: 3823
Re: WTOL may be removing MeTV
WNMT-CD makes CBET (CBC Windsor) and CHWI (CTV2 Windsor) look like superstations in comparison... just from picture quality alone! Considering WMNT's rap sheet, it makes even small-market network affiliates like superstations. The stations have the "branding channel" rights to any number, PSIP. PSI...
- Wed Oct 16, 2019 10:53 pm
- Forum: Network & Syndicated Radio and TV
- Topic: Network programming preemptions by individual stations
- Replies: 88
- Views: 14703
Re: Network programming preemptions by individual stations
According to TitanTV, this Saturday night October 19, WDIV will Join "JURASSIC WORLD" in progress at 9:00 PM after an infomercial and repeat episode of "Wheel of Fortune" at 8:00 and 8:30 PM. You'd think they'd remove WoF and the infomercial in favor of the movie. Strange. Did they mean to schedule...
- Sun Oct 13, 2019 9:19 pm
- Forum: Getting Connected (or Cutting the Cord!)
- Topic: TCM
- Replies: 11
- Views: 699
Re: TCM
My friend in Sterling Heights, also with Comcast as am I, called me one afternoon complaining about the same thing, ironically as I was watching TCM. He called Comcast and apparently TCM is now bundled with a sports tier costing extra, which I have. This makes absolutely no sense, especially as the...
- Sun Oct 13, 2019 9:06 pm
- Forum: Neighboring States/Ontario
- Topic: WTOL may be removing MeTV
- Replies: 86
- Views: 3823
Re: WTOL may be removing MeTV
What amazed me about WMNT-CA in its analog days was their nightly airing of "Make Room for Daddy"/"Danny Thomas Show" -unedited, complete with cigarette commercials! In the 21st century! (American Tobacco Company was at least a sponsor if they didn't produce and deliver the program outright). This ...
- Sat Oct 12, 2019 12:13 am
- Forum: Neighboring States/Ontario
- Topic: WTOL may be removing MeTV
- Replies: 86
- Views: 3823
Re: WTOL may be removing MeTV
Did anyone notice WMNT was sited for not logging children's programming? FCC says the need to cough up $13,000. Sounds like they made excuses for not filing mandatory paperwork. Also, public file on their website is not clickable. Actually, the WMNT part of their My Network TV framed website is mis...
- Sat Oct 12, 2019 12:07 am
- Forum: Flint, Tri-Cities, and The Thumb
- Topic: Comcast Removing Detroit and Lansing Channels
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2607
Re: Comcast Removing Detroit and Lansing Channels
Must-carry even applies to low power stations. Which is probably why you see more of them popping up as network affiliates. ...which is the only way LPTVs can be must-carry. When we lived in the Tampa Bay area until last year, the market had several LPTVs, but only the Spanish-language channels (su...