Weigel-owned KMOH (Channel 6 on DirecTV) is now airing MeTV effective Fri. 2/12. The program guide was changed early Friday and the actual video switch occurred sometime around noon today.
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KMOH now airing MeTV
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Cannot help but wonder how that will affect KAZT's carrying Me-TV?????
Dunno, but 7.2 was still carrying ME-TV as late as Saturday evening.
You aren't missing much. Perhaps the Three Stooges on Saturday afternoon.
Hard to believe Weigel would go through the expense, effort and time to buy KMOH,
just to duplicate what's already available elsewhere. The duplication of Cozi and Grit
seem different. No one purchased a station just to duplicate what is already available...
just to duplicate what's already available elsewhere. The duplication of Cozi and Grit
seem different. No one purchased a station just to duplicate what is already available...
The station was purchased to get MeTV on DirecTV and Dish in the Phoenix market, if that makes much sense. KAZT tried to get Dish to carry MeTV when they were in a dispute a couple years ago, but Dish didn't budge.
As far as OTA in the Phoenix Metro Area, MeTV is now also on 40.6 for the time being (along with 7.2, with duplicated programming), but 40.6 is showing a feed with no local inserted commercials. 7.2 still has local ads inserted. Azteca is still on 40.1.
Why pay for someone to carry MeTV, decades, H&I, starttv and movies! When you can put them on your own station (ala what Scripps is going to do now that they bought Ion stations)
Don't Dish and Directv have the Me-Tv national feed available???
Dish carries a national feed of MeTV, albeit in 4:3 SD. DirecTV does not carry it.
KMOH should be carried in 16:9 HD on the satellite providers.
Carrying Weigel programming on KMOH just to be on Directv, which
people are leaving in droves, still doesn't make much sense. I would guess
that KAZT, with its translators, serves more OTA viewers than KMOH
in Mohave County. KMOH doesn't serve NorthCentral AZ at all......
Maybe they have something else in mind?????
people are leaving in droves, still doesn't make much sense. I would guess
that KAZT, with its translators, serves more OTA viewers than KMOH
in Mohave County. KMOH doesn't serve NorthCentral AZ at all......
Maybe they have something else in mind?????
Could KMOH be planning a move northward to cover Las Vegas????
Can they get must-carry in Vegas and still remain in the Phoenix market? Kingman is in the Phoenix market and leaving would allow the satellite providers to drop them which negates the whole reason for Weigel to buy them in the first place. FYI Weigel has done this in other cities to get MeTv on satellite. Satellite providers are required to carry all full-power stations in markets they serve.
I also wonder what plans are for the 7.2 feed from KAZT. Could it be used would it be used for the satellite feed to get increased exposure for local advertising?
This gets more and more interesting.... It appears they had a cp that would take them to full power and effectively cover Vegas from where they are. Here: https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS...?appn=101134752&qnum=5480©num=1&exhcnum=1
However, they cannot do it now because there is a digital -CD station in Vegas on RF 19 effectively blocking that increase. That station is owned by: HC2 holdings, the same company that previously owned KMOH...........
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Meanwhile here in Houston KYAZ, which Weigel acquired in the same group deal as KMOH, has yet to make changes. Still carrying Azteca on the main 51.1 channel.
My guess is they haven't got to it yet, or there may be some contractual obligation that needs to run out. It will happen eventually, since they paid for all this to get satellite and possible cable must-carry.
Don't forget the Saturday Morning Cartoons (Popeye, Tom and Jerry, and Bugs Bunny & Friends, respectively)! Still hilarious after all these years! With this programming addition, Me-TV nailed it! 🤣
They would have to pick one or the other. Consider also that Weigel has another recent purchase station that needs a translator to reach the largest metro in the market, which is KCSG in Cedar City, Utah (north of St. George). It bought KUTA-LD broadcasting into Salt Lake and its translator in Logan.
Like Scripps with Ion, Weigel has established something of a "national mux" business, in which it is buying marginal full-power TV stations (or, as here, rural full-power TVs with metro LPTVs) in markets across the US to program its diginets, secure must-carry, and add OTA viewers.
Dish carries it but not to everyone. If your market has MeTv on a -1 (as is this case) its carried in place of the national feed
If Dish carries a station that has MeTv part time that station can ask for Dish to black it out. They just remove it from one's guide
Good idea seems to be working well for them. I was not aware of the SLC deal but they are working their way into many markets large and small with this strategy. My hunch is if they want into Vegas they will do the same thing there. KMOH together with KEJR serves them the purpose of getting sat and cable must-carry in the Phoenix DMA.
KMOH has been off the air on DirecTV for the past week. Is there a conflict with KAZT over who can offer ME-Tv?
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