OhioMediaWatch said:
@OMW: Much as I love your blog, I gotta say that if it ain't on cable, it ain't in the market (at least for three-quarters or more of households).
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ANTENNA TV ADDS MORE HAZEL, DENNIS, STOOGES, FATHER KNOWS BEST
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@OMW: Much as I love your blog, I gotta say that if it ain't on cable, it ain't in the market (at least for three-quarters or more of households).
MattParker said:
Point well taken, but we are talking about a digital TV subchannel that is starting life as an OTA channel. It takes time for the cable carriage to lineup, as it just did here.
We are tracking its birth, not its impact.
OhioMediaWatch said:
Fair enough. But this "birth" was announced well in advance. One would think the geniuses at Tribune Broadcasting might have gotten their ducks in a row for cable carriage. Tribune Media provides TV listings to newspapers and to on-screen and online program guides. They made the change in the listings but whoever is supposed to be working with cable providers apparently didn't get the memo.
Tribune has done so many idiotic things in the past year, this is hardly a blip on the radar. But did it ever occur to anyone to leave THIS on existing DT2, and add the new ANTENNA on the new sub-channel DT3? Probably not but it would have saved a lot of confusion.
I was hoping that my local Time Warner Cable franchise would add Antenna TV (and This TV) to its lineup, according to an e-mail I got back from KTLA a few days ago, TWC's refusing to add either one. In fact, I know that (at least according to TWC's programming alerts page) the two sides are still negotiating KTLA's carriage deal. The local TWC system (which was Comcast prior to '06) use to carry The Tube subchannel before they shut down operations.
I have to play around with the indoor antenna, but I can pull in the three KTLA subs, but it's more or less hit or miss. I don't live exactly in the greatest reception area in greater Los Angeles. I'm surrounded by hills to the north and northwest of me, and LAX to the west. Even in the analog days, KTLA (as well as KCBS and KNBC) ever came in all that well either over-the-air.
I have to play around with the indoor antenna, but I can pull in the three KTLA subs, but it's more or less hit or miss. I don't live exactly in the greatest reception area in greater Los Angeles. I'm surrounded by hills to the north and northwest of me, and LAX to the west. Even in the analog days, KTLA (as well as KCBS and KNBC) ever came in all that well either over-the-air.
...well, that's the way the frequencies have always worked. Lower VHF channels (2 thru 6) were always better for the audio signal, not the video...ShawnHill1 said:
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