First Hotel, then Hospital, then College Cable--Now there's "McDonald's Cable"

[KML0224]

Burger King in Berlin, CT nearly always has (had?) their one TV on either CBS-N or some NBC channel (but not local WVIT-TV channel 30 of New Britain/Hartford). The McDonald's down the street always has the very repetitive MOOD TV on, clearly run by CBS.

 

[FreddyE1977]

The McDonald's on Queen Street (State Route 10) in Southington, CT has TVs. They're tuned to CNN.

CNN is on in SO many public places it has really made me wonder whether they are paying a SPIFF to small businesses for having them on.

Though I did have dinner the other night in a restaurant where every TV was tuned to The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman on COZI TV. Weird.

 

[CTListener]

CNN is on in SO many public places it has really made me wonder whether they are paying a SPIFF to small businesses for having them on.

Until recent years, it was generally thought of as the centrist alternative to far-right Fox News and far-left MSNBC. Obviously, it has shifted more to the left during the last two eventful years, but it's still less likely to upset a captive audience of diners than the other two, Maybe if Newsy were better known, it could someday replace CNN in restaurants.

 

[gr8oldies]

One of my local McDonalds' always has Fox News on, and they're on in a lot of other places. It is a deep red state, however.

CNN is on in SO many public places it has really made me wonder whether they are paying a SPIFF to small businesses for having them on.

Though I did have dinner the other night in a restaurant where every TV was tuned to The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman on COZI TV. Weird.

 

[crainbebo]

Last time I went to McDonald's here, I don't think they even had a TV installed anymore, but I could be wrong. If I see TV's in a restaurant, it's usually a sit-in that has ESPN or another sports game on. Buffalo Wild Wings has at least a dozen TVs all with most of the sports channels. I'll bet it will be standing room only during the Super Bowl. Here in Yakima, injured or not, everybody loves hometown hero Cooper Kupp (Los Angeles).
I can't remember the last time I saw Fox News on a restaurant's TV. And I live in a red county.

 

[anotherguyTN]

Until recent years, it was generally thought of as the centrist alternative to far-right Fox News and far-left MSNBC. Obviously, it has shifted more to the left during the last two eventful years, but it's still less likely to upset a captive audience of diners than the other two, Maybe if Newsy were better known, it could someday replace CNN in restaurants.

It looks like Newsy or Cheddar would be good choices for fast food restaurants because of how they run short reports and no talking heads type shows. I'd prefer that over most of what any of the major news networks carry most of the time.