k8jd wrote: ↑

Sat May 04, 2019 1:51 pm

CK-722 wrote: ↑

Sat May 04, 2019 9:38 am

1190 WLIB is 10 kW Day, 30 kW Night

I had WLIB 1190, as 50 KW daytime power

Back in the days of the Air America fiasco, WLIB only got as powerful after its owners bought and downgraded Fort Wayne's WOWO.

98.7 The Shark may go down as one of the top five worst format changes in the country for 2019. For the second straight Nielsen survey, the station registered a pathetic 1.6 share. This is "No Rules Rock" all over again. The AC format (B98.7) produced three respectable surveys in a row - the statio...

Y M Ionhere wrote: ↑

Wed May 08, 2019 9:38 am

So will we be seeing live police shows like "Cops" or mostly scripted judge shows?

It's supposed to be like the old Court TV, which would feature live court cases and analysis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_TV

Should CKCO-3 flip to UHF 30 for its digital signal with virtual channel 42.1? From an ethical perspective, CKCO-3 should convert to DTV, but they won't. They're owned by Bell Media, the owner of Canada's cable and satellite TV providers. With OTA television out of the way (except in areas with US ...

mtburb wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 26, 2019 5:01 pm

innate-in-you wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 26, 2019 11:33 am

It doesn't make any mention of OTA.

This is highly surprising, especially since, IIRC, the Monroe Evening News does list OTA channels in their daily edition listings.

Why wouldn't the Evening News list OTA stations in its TV magazine? Even TV Guide these days has national network listings.

Yet another vintage United Cable Television Downriver lineup: I found four of this in a VCR box I bought at a yard sale in Wyandotte. United Cable Television Gibraltar/Lincoln Park/Riverview/Trenton/Woodhaven, circa 1989-1990 47 - The Nostalgia Channel (very little known about this channel) It was ...

smallwonder wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 29, 2019 1:54 am

Did anyone happen to get footage of 5's kids telethon? They're tinkering with the towers, so I wasn't able to see it.

Fine time to do transmitter maintenance -- during a telethon.

That being said, telethons died after Jerry Lewis was fired from his MDA telethon in 2010.

autolab wrote: ↑

Tue May 07, 2019 2:07 am

If you don't like the topic of the story, then just don't watch the newscast.

Or in my case, don't watch TV news at all. All my news the last few years came from the paper.

I would imagine CFPL and CHWI flipping from CTV2 to the main CTV network, but then, their broadcasting plans were always too nearsighted. Even the CRTC is still hemming and hawing on the use of subchannels. As for CJOH's Deseronto transmitter, no big loss, as the region already gets CTV programming ...

I think that is the reason why they took the WBKB-TV call letters. It was to be a smallest market version of an ABC O & O. Then the edges of the market and the cable had an actual ABC O & O, WJRT-TV, which would have wanted to be WJR-TV, had the since modified call letter rules had allowed it in th...

Strange Can-Con: "Glamour Boy" by the guess who. Sometimes nonsensical lyrics, and the story is about someone who wants gender-reassignment surgery - the price of which inflates by $12,000 with every verse! Perhaps an ode to Amesbury? The song came out in 1973; Bill Amesbury's "Virginia" -- which w...

There was a topic about how to send mail at the post office BUT YouTube does not have that segment. Saw that when WNEM 5 (Saginaw, MI) showed the reruns of "Hot Dog" around 1977 - 1978 at 7:00 Saturday morning, followed by "Looney Tunes" with Bugs Bunny & Friends because "Hot Dog" was 21 minutes lo...

The Tampa Bay Times has one available as an add on to your subscription at an extra cost. Apparently, that's the trend of some newspapers these days, in which they offer a TV magazine as an extra-cost add-on, instead of free every Sunday. I've seen a sample issue in the TBT one Sunday last year (sh...

I was at the doctors office the other day. I was thumbing through the magazines and there was a TV Guide. I miss the old Readers Digest sized TV Guide. Not a fan of the magazine sized TV Guide. Anyways I was looking through it and I noticed that the TV listings were vastly different. In the listing...

RingtailedFox wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 25, 2019 7:53 pm

The full story can be seen at https://blog.fagstein.com/2016/06/27/be ... -shutdown/

The article is three years old, and I believe Bell has since reconsidered closing its transmitters.