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Are Me-TV & Antenna TV On The Same TV Station Anywhere?

Markxxx

Markxxx

I was looking through Wikipedia and I ran across a station which had Me-TV on one subchannel and AntennaTV on another. At least I think it did. I can't remember the station.

But anyway are there any TV stations that run Me-TV on one subchannel and Antenna TV on another? Or are there exclusivity agreements preventing this?
 
I had thought that Antenna TV hadn't expanded beyond the Local TV & Tribune owned stations, but it looks like there are a few that are carrying both Antenna TV & MeTV on the same station. No Tribune or Local TV owned station will carry MeTV like many have with This TV. These are the stations I found that carry both MeTV & Antenna TV (a few at least for now even carry RTV):

KGMC Clovis, CA (Fresno, CA) (Cocola Broadcasting)

43.5 Antenna TV
43.6 MeTV


KWWT Odessa, TX (JB Broadcasting)

30.2 RTV
30.3 Antenna TV
30.5 MeTV (Coming Soon)

WZMQ Marquette, MI (MMMRC LLC)

19.1 MeTV
19.3 Antenna TV

For now, it's only 3 stations (currently 2 that carry both networks now) and it's only in the smallest markets where MeTV & Antenna TV are on the same station. It tells me that there is no clause in the contracts of either network that prevents both networks from appearing on the same station. You're just not gonna find Tribune & Local TV helping Weigel Broadcasting carrying MeTV this time around, like Tribune did with carrying This TV.
 
If KDOC-56 Los Angeles hadn't buckled under with launching THIS-TV from it's inception they would now have both of the Weigel subchannels (THIS and Me), but as it stands Tribune owned KTLA-5 snatched up THIS and also carries Antenna.

When will the mandate come down from Tribune to tell all of it's operated stations to bounce THIS-TV to the curb? Is it a broadcast battle worth fighting?

MeTV is gathering a head of steam with it's national launch and I feel has a better cross selection of classic shows and is better presented.

Antenna is stagnant and really needs to rotate their library, I think everyone has had their fill of Maude and Good Times for now. Mix it around, there are plenty of other Sony licensed shows to fill.
 
Yes THIS-TV has nothing for me and many others. They'd be better off with Me-Too on
there. THIS is a nice concept, but you have to be a big movie fan to watch some of the
clinkers they present. I'm shocked that THIS has as many affiliates as it does.
 
Robnoxious said:
When will the mandate come down from Tribune to tell all of it's operated stations to bounce THIS-TV to the curb?
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It won't. Tribune has said they see This TV as a compliment to Antenna TV.

- Trip
 
So? Neither is CW. They're an affiliate of both.

- Trip
 
gregg75 said:
Yes THIS-TV has nothing for me and many others. They'd be better off with Me-Too on
there. THIS is a nice concept, but you have to be a big movie fan to watch some of the
clinkers they present. I'm shocked that THIS has as many affiliates as it does.
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I agree, I have no interest in THIS either. WPIX 11.3 carries it, but I noticed no cable companies in the NYC carry it as far as I can tell. So there must not be much demand.
 
ansky212 said:
I agree, I have no interest in THIS either. WPIX 11.3 carries it, but I noticed no cable companies in the NYC carry it as far as I can tell. So there must not be much demand.
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I don't either. Of course I'm not really that big of a movie fan to begin with. I've watched 2 movies on THIS-TV since I got cable at my own apartment in April 2009. Those movies were "Getting Even with Dad" starring Macully Culken and Ted Danson and "She-Devil' starring Roseanne Barr.

When I'm up at 6:30AM I can't even remember to watch "Mr. Ed" on THIS-TV and I used to enjoy watching that as a small child on Nick-at-Nite back in the day.
 
For now, Tribune will continue to carry This TV, because they agreed to affiliate with This TV before MeTV went national in markets where someone else hadn't already affiliated with This TV. Chicago (affiliated with WCIU 26.5), Houston (affiliated with KPRC-TV), Seattle (affiliated with KOMO-TV), Portland, OR (affiliated with KATU), & Harrisburg, PA (affiliated with WGAL) are the only markets where a competitor to Tribune already had the affiliation with This TV. So for 19 markets that Tribune has TV stations, 14 of those markets have This TV on a Tribune station.
 
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