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All My Children on WFAA

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JayDavis

I do not watch this show, I want to state this up front and make that clear. However, this morning I had left the TV on all morning, while I was working in my office. When I came back in the living room where our TV is located, I noticed that the picture for this show was much different than the picture for any other program I see on Channel 8. I also want to emphasize that I do not have a HDTV, yet.

So why is the picture quality so much more different? It looks a lot better than my normal picture quality on any other program Channel 8 is broadcasting.

Can anyone explain this? Just curious.
 
It not just WFAA. I see the same effect on the ABC O&O in Houston. It's a film-effect generator that ABC uses. That's why their all their soap operas (even OLTL and GH) look much clearer on analog TV than a show on another network.
 
I do know this, if WFAA is still doing it, but ALL MY CHILDREN used to air at 11am there. It is actually the episode for the day prior, because it is supposed to air at noon. So, they record the show and air it the next day. It may have to do with whatever they are recording it on. Which I'm sure is probably a profile/server type of equipment. I would doubt it, if they were recording it on tape still. That's the only thing I can think of.
 
snoman said:
I do know this, if WFAA is still doing it, but ALL MY CHILDREN used to air at 11am there. It is actually the episode for the day prior, because it is supposed to air at noon. So, they record the show and air it the next day. It may have to do with whatever they are recording it on. Which I'm sure is probably a profile/server type of equipment. I would doubt it, if they were recording it on tape still. That's the only thing I can think of.
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They are still airing it at 11am before their hourlong noon news (the reason for the next-day airings). IIRR, All My Children switched from tape to film a few years ago, another possible reason for the different look.
 
ABC does indeed use a film-effect generator
for AMC, but since I get the show at the
recommended time of 1 PM (ET) I can't say
what effect taping the show for delayed
broadcast has on the picture quality.

Which leads me to bring up an old point:
why can't ABC dual-feed AMC at 12 N (ET)/
11 AM (CT)and at 1 PM (ET)/12 N
(CT)? Analogy here: The Young And The
Restless, which plays on most CBS affiliates
in the Central Time Zone at 11 AM, before
the noon news, and in the Eastern Time Zone
after the news, at 12:30. Heck, even Guiding
Light, the lowest-rated of all the soaps, has
three feeds to accommodate the differences in
scheduling.
 
KTRK is also an ABC o&o and tends to run everything
in pattern. Sister station WLS Chicago also runs AMC
at 12 Noon (CT).

Another Texas station that comes to mind is KSAT/12
San Antonio. It also runs AMC at 11 and has since
1978, when One Life To Live and General Hospital expanded
to an hour each, at 1 and 2 (CT), respectively (from the time
AMC went to an hour in 1977 until January 1978, Ch. 12 carried
it at 12:30 and pre-empted $20,000 Pyramid).
 
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