Antenna TV Coming to NYC!

[qwertynyc]

According to Mediaweek, Tribune launches Antenna TV on 1/3/2011 to be seen locally on a WPIX digital sub-channel.


Tribune Broadcasting is set to launch at the beginning of next year, Antenna TV, a digital network of classic TV shows, many of which were popular in the days before cable wiped out antennas. The network will air as a digital multicast channel on Tribune's stations beginning Jan. 3, 2011, but will also be offered to other non-Tribune-owned stations.

Some of the movies and TV classic that will air on the network include Three's Company, All in the Family, Sanford and Son, Benny Hill, Maude, The Nanny, Married with Children, Dennis the Menace, The Donna Reed Show and The Three Stooges.

"Tribune is committed to making full use of our bandwidth to offer viewers a broad spectrum of programming," said Sean Compton, president of programming for Tribune.

Earlier this year, Tribune expanded its relationship with MGM to launch THIS TV, a digital channel of classic movies.

http://www.wgnamerica.com/shows/antenna/shows

 

[luperm]

Will it be carried on cable? That's the big question...

 

[Markxxx]

We have ME-TV in Chicago and it's has most of those shows and it's carried by Comcast on the digital tier. It'll be interesting in Chicago to see which shows will remain on ME-TV and which will be lost to WGN

 

[ansky212]

From what I have been reading over the past couple weeks, Antenna TV will be replacing Estrella TV on WPIX 11-2. Verizon Fios carries this on ch 462.

 

[MarcB]

I wonder where it will air in Hartford. Channel 20.3 or Channel 61.2 - Currently there is no Channel 61.2 and Channel 20.2 is THIS-TV. (Comcast Channel 291 in Plainville/New Britain Hartford Channel 265 Waterbury, Wolcott, Plymouth, Seymour?). Both Channel 20 WCCT-TV (CW) and Channel 61 WTIC-TV (FOX) are owned by Tribune.

 

[DToTheJ]

From what I have been reading over the past couple weeks, Antenna TV will be replacing Estrella TV on WPIX 11-2...

So now WPIX will have this new network on 11-2 and This TV on 11-3.

 

[Gregg]

WPIX used to carry LaTV, a youthful Hispanic network, on one of its subchannels. While that was discontinued some months ago, my cable system, Time Warner New Jersey, still runs it on Channel 138. Later WPIX added Estrella, another Hispanic network, although I think aimed older, and This TV, made up of older MGM movies and a few old TV shows such as Sea Hunt, Highway Patrol, Bat Masterson, Patty Duke and Mister Ed. Time Warner doesn't carry, at least at this point, either of those two subchannels, even though it does carry most of the other subchannels from the major stations.

Sea Hunt, Highway Patrol and Bat Masterson (a Western starring Gene Barry who recently passed away) were never on a network but were syndicated by a guy named Ivan Torrs. But I seem to remember Patty Duke being on ABC and Mister Ed was also a network show, I believe.


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[ding12]

Some of the movies and TV classic that will air on the network include Three's Company, All in the Family, Sanford and Son, Benny Hill, Maude, The Nanny, Married with Children, Dennis the Menace, The Donna Reed Show and The Three Stooges.

I hope the intention is for that purpose, not to just gain TV HH with it and immediately flip the format after cable systems pick it up- basically what was done for VH1 classic, TV Land, etc.

 

[azumanga]

Sea Hunt, Highway Patrol and Bat Masterson (a Western starring Gene Barry who recently passed away) were never on a network but were syndicated by a guy named Ivan Torrs.

Actually, Fredrick W. Ziv was the man responsible for these shows, though Ivan Tors co-produced Sea Hunt with Ziv. As for Bat Masterson -- even though Ziv was notable for its syndicated programs, that series was on NBC first.

 

[KeithE4]

Sea Hunt, Highway Patrol and Bat Masterson (a Western starring Gene Barry who recently passed away) were never on a network but were syndicated by a guy named Ivan Torrs. But I seem to remember Patty Duke being on ABC and Mister Ed was also a network show, I believe.

Mister Ed was originally syndicated during the first half of 1961, then ran for 5 years on CBS.

 

[ansky212]

Antenna TV is now available on the new WPIX 11.4 subchannel.

 

[ansky212]

Antenna TV is now on Verizon Fios channel 465 in NJ (not sure about NYC).

 

[butchfm]

Will it be carried on cable? That's the big question...

Long Island opt. Cablevision 114. Other the great tv shows, they have real good old movies late night til dawn..