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Bounce TV Will Sign On Tomorrow

Bounce TV is really covering Alabama. Besides Montgomery, they have affiliates in Birmingham, Huntsville, Columbus GA, Dothan and here in Mobile on WFNA 55.2. We've been getting a running test loop all day hyping the station, intercut with the beginning of "The Whiz" which is the debut move tomorrow at noon.
 
The debut of Bounce TV appears to be going OK...operations appear to be going smoothly, with a good mix of programming, excellent audio/video quality and good continuity and promotions. Here in Louisville Bounce is on WAVE-DT 3.3 and on Insight (soon Time Warner) cable.
 
... I wonder why Bounce didn't wind up on WALA 10.2 in Mobile? ::) 55.2 could be put to better use as a simulcast of 10.1 :( Lin could even run 55.2 in HD when FNA 55.1 is showing SD programming, or maybe they could compress Fox HD and CW HD a little further and squeeze both into the available bandwidth on 55 (RF25)... leaving the maximum bandwidth Fox produces on 10.1 for the few people that can get it OTA. :(

Getting a little more serious... Fort Walton and Destin are in the Mobile DMA... even though they are a little closer to the Panama City TV towers. Those poor folks can't get an OTA Fox signal at all down there. Some idiot decided to use channel 9 for both markets' Fox affiliates. Lin shouldn't be worrying about adding a DT sub channel that none of us with cable will ever watch and get to work moving WALA to UHF or (perhaps a better idea) set up a LP Fox affiliate in Fort Walton... be it a direct simulcast of WALA or a partial simulcast with Fort Walton/Destin local commercials and newscasts (maybe add a few shows produced for our military in place of infomercials). WALA is loosing ground with viewers of their Mobile newscast, they could easily take over and own the smaller Fort Walton/Destin market with local news on an inexpensive Fox LP down there.
 
poledo said:
WALA is loosing ground with viewers of their Mobile newscast, they could easily take over and own the smaller Fort Walton/Destin market with local news on an inexpensive Fox LP down there.
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Hmm, that may be what prompted a rather snarky barb from Local 15's evening anchor Greg Peterson yesterday. During a segment on the games at the Baldwin County Fair in Robertsdale, reporter James Gordon was tearing through the ducky game where you try to find one with "10" written on the bottom to win a prize. At the very end right before they cut back to the news desk James found one and said "I won!" Greg said something along the lines of, "They should have made the number a '15', no is finding 10 anymore in Baldwin County."

Oh well, I LOL'd. ;D
 
^The 6:00 PM newscast segment for Friday, September 30th with the comments you referenced is in the videos section of the World Wide Web site for WPMI-TV. If you were to set the video for 17:22 (minutes and seconds remaining), you would see everything that occurred again.

Since the video will not on the site for long, here are some more details and exact quotations:

While James Gordon was playing the Lucky Duck game, he said, "I'm going to have to keep trying here because I don't know where the number 10 is, I'm going to have to keep trying. We'll see". Greg Peterson responded by saying, "A lot of people are wondering the same in Baldwin County over the last two years". At the same time Greg Peterson made that comment, James Gordon found the duck with the number 10 and said, "Ten! Ten!" After the end of the report, Greg Peterson said, "I think it should be 15. It's tough to find 10 in Baldwin County right now". Kym Thurman, his fellow news presenter, said, "Oh, it is".

I would never comment on anything if I were a news presenter or a reporter.
 
Thank you for the exact quote Mario! Yeah, I thought that whole exchange was odd.

Today they posted a video to their Facebook page showing Darwin Singleton dancing to some sort of Reggaeton music while doing a mic check. They must be an interesting bunch to work with over there.
 
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