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CBS and Weigel launch new diginet

onairb said:
Sounds good, but I have Uverse, which doesn't carry digital subchannels.
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I also have AT&T. I find that just like Comcast, which I used to have, they don't carry OTA Subchannel networks as OTA subchannels. However, they do carry some of the same networks that OTA stations put on subchannels as discrete networks. I'm not sure exactly which ones, as there aren't any subchannel networks that I cared about watching when I was watching OTA TV, so I've never looked any of them up. But I do recall noticing some of them when I was glancing through my new AT&T channel listings.
 
umfan said:
They could package specific big stories from a particular year into a 30 min show with clips from the newscasts. That might work and would fit in well with the programming of the station.
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They tried that with CBS Eye on People, which completely failed in the marketplace (though CBS's lack of cable knowledge at the time didn't help) and after being sold to Discovery, eventually set up the rolling SAG card mill we know today as Investigation Discovery. And unfortunately the model was tried through the NBC News archives with Time & Again on MSNBC, which eventually moldered into the generic Biography clone Headliners & Legends.
 
Avid Listener said:
I also have AT&T. I find that just like Comcast, which I used to have, they don't carry OTA Subchannel networks as OTA subchannels. However, they do carry some of the same networks that OTA stations put on subchannels as discrete networks. I'm not sure exactly which ones, as there aren't any subchannel networks that I cared about watching when I was watching OTA TV, so I've never looked any of them up. But I do recall noticing some of them when I was glancing through my new AT&T channel listings.
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I found that COZI TV, which is on the subchannels of NBC O & Os, has a presence elsewhere: Some obscure 'used to be religious, now general entertainment' channel called FETV('Family Entertainment Television') carries most of COZI's line up, substituting a couple of religious shows, old movies and Roy Rogers for the few COZI offerings it doesn't show.
However, COZI is known for haevy editing for time, and FETV makes its own edits on top of COZI's, frequently 'joining in progress' a minute or so after COZI's ad break ended.
 
FETV is part of LeSea Broadcasting, which owns a handful of TV stations across the country, plus a couple FMs and Shortwave. FETV is apparently their attempt at a nationwide general entertainment network, and is carried on Dish, DirecTV, and U-Verse, as well as digital subchannels of (most?) of LeSea's terrestrial stations. Oddly, it's not carried on their Indianapolis station. However, that could be due to the fact that Indianapolis already has a full time COZI TV affiliate. I gather that LeSea didn't have any great ideas for programming, and was mostly offering public domain or other very old movies until they cut a deal with COZI. Apparently, COZI may be the only multicast network that was also licensed in a way that permitted nationwide carriage. http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/77115/cozi-tv-diginet-adds-eight-markets
 
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