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.2 Network

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Louis_009

There a new TV network called .2 Network a new movie channel and shows on the new digital subchannels. The new network is not on the air yet but The channel was originally scheduled for launch on December 8, 2008 however, citing the February 2009 digital transition (since delayed until June), the launch of .2 Network was delayed until sometime in Spring 2009. As of August 2009, .2 Network has yet to begin service; .2 Network executives said that it may delay the launch until it reaches at least 30% of US households, which the station's owners may feel will not happen until October 2009, almost a full year after its scheduled launch.
 
This isn't new news. Since I live in the city where GTN is located is supposed to change their local low power analog station W23BZ (GTN23) to .2 Network.
 
I'm starting to think this is the network that will never get off the ground, keeps getting delayed, the economy as it is, DTV issues, I just don't see it happening.
 
WRAL in Raleigh is running "WRAL .2" on their subchannel. It was "This Network" the other week. Both of them show(ed) all older movies. Is it the same, or different?
 
Judging by the thread title, I was expecting a discussion about MY Network...
 
I'm in the camp that says the .2 Network will never see the light of day. They dragged their feet for too long and probably never had the venture capital they needed to launch. That well has long since dried up and no new investors are biting. Their own website hasn't changed one bit since it's inception.

With This-TV pushing upwards of ~70% in entire US households, cable propagation (This-TV just recently showed up on Verizon FIOS) and satellite propagation on the AMC-3 bird there is no reason any broadcaster would chance it with a product like .2 that hasn't lit up one second of promised programming.
 
I recently spoke with someone at .2 and it's certainly not dead yet. I'm not sure what more I am allowed to say beyond that.

- Trip
 
The Question that needs to ask that will GTN flash cut their local Columbus Ohio station, W23BZ(UHF23)? GTN23 supposed to become the flagship station of the .2 Network. It wouldn't make much sense that the flagship station sill broadcast in analog.
 
tripinva said:
I recently spoke with someone at .2 and it's certainly not dead yet. I'm not sure what more I am allowed to say beyond that.
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No offense to you Trip and what you might have been told but if .2 ever launches I'll eat my hat.
And it's a nice hat.
 
I won't hold you to it, because I believe violence against hats to be wrong. :)

I didn't say anything about launch, I just said that it's not dead yet. As in there is still a group of people working on it. Of course, I was given a launch window too, but I'm also in the "I'll believe it when I see it" camp.

- Trip
 
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