Do you mean that WHKY might go with Ion? As long as they could preserve their local news format (either on a free-standing 14.1 or by cutting into the Ion schedule on 14.1 with news), I could see that.
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Do you mean that WHKY might go with Ion? As long as they could preserve their local news format (either on a free-standing 14.1 or by cutting into the Ion schedule on 14.1 with news), I could see that.
Its not as strong and important as 5 other stations
They started out as a local station for the Unifour counties, but have sought to become yet another Charlotte-market station, with must-carry and distributed transmission on top of that. They lose nothing of their original mission by doing so, they just gain viewers, even if not that many, throughout the entire market. Their hyper-local news is a no-frills operation and is not meant to compete with the other stations in the market. This kind of local coverage is what the FCC originally had in mind when allocating channels (mostly UHF) to smaller cities that were not the core of their markets. At one time, tiny Camden, SC had a UHF allocation, though I don't think it ever got past the planning stages. If that were today, any such station would just be absorbed into the larger market (in this case Columbia), think WKTC in Sumter, or for that matter, WJZY, WMYT, and WAXN licensed to Belmont, Rock Hill, and Kannapolis respectively.
Fun fact, at one point in the 1980s, WHKY carried the NBC Nightly News when WPCQ (now WCNC) declined to carry it. That was quite a coup.
I figured on more current repeats and perhaps a movie package. I know the classics are all tied up on subchannels like Me TV.
I didn't know that. I was just taking it literally that Charlotte had no Ion programming.
I don't get WJZY/WMYT here in Columbia, as they share OTA 25 with local station WZRB. I am six miles away from the WZRB stick, but I have to have my antenna turned just-so to get it (I get the other Columbia stations with ease), evidently there's just enough signal from Charlotte to interfere. Out at Winnsboro, you can't get either one, presumably because the two signals "fight it out" and kill each other --- I've tested it with a small RCA antenna on a mast and tripod out at the SC Railroad Museum parking lot. Charlotte-area 3/9/18/30/36/64, and maybe even WUNG-58, I don't recall, come in just fine out there.
subchannels mostly not carried on Satellite usually FTA stations on satellite carries just XX.1 not XX.2 and beyond unless your a major network, CW, MNTV, or Hispanic networks
WPIX aired The Honeymooners on Saturdays during prime time before The CW expanded to Saturdays a year ago. PIX 11 now airs two episodes a week on Sunday mornings from midnight to 1:00 am.
Unless your a Canadian like Heartland or Murdoch Mysteries, u barely see any Hollywood studio making first run drama or comedy in syndication. Networks and streamers identify the show for consumers find.
If it would be, I think they would have tried it. WAXN was a Pax affiliate but didn't carry a lot of the programming, then they just became an independent.
That's the first I'm hearing of this, but so far I haven't had an antenna that worked. I picked up WJZY just fine when the conversion began with the antenna I was using--for the explanation of how to watch digital TV.
There been breaks in between the last syndicated tv shows like Mutant X and Andromeda in 2004 (2004-2005 season Andromeda moved to Sci-fi Channel) then 2008-2010 with Legend of the Seeker then the last first run syndicated scripted shows was between 2013-2015 with Saf3 and The Pinkertons.
I immediately thought of Small Wonder ☣️
Perhaps home shopping channels aren't so bad after all.
Those types of shows went away for the most part when Fox, UPN, and WB, and later CW, started being carried by what had been independent stations, which took up a lot of the time where those shows would have been carried before.
We really have relatively few true independent non-religious commercial TV stations anymore. Fox sucked all the air out of the room when they started in the late 1980s, taking many markets' "fourth station" and making it basically another network affiliate, then, of course, came along UPN, WB, and later the CW. Independent stations, what few there are anymore, are basically dependent upon faux-courtroom shows, talk shows hosted by B- and C-list celebrities and which are all more or less alike, and reruns of sitcoms and dramas popular in the past 10-15 years or so. The huge movie offerings of stations such as WXIX are a thing of the past. (I've also got to wonder if shortened attention spans have made TV movies less viable than they used to be --- even many network stations would pre-empt network offerings once or twice a week to show their own movies.)
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If new episodes.
Consider Bill C11 regulating big tech streamers and big media too. They don't want Canada to become another US State. But they face similar problems as America but as a country without the identity
Try telling that to Byron Allen when he bought KIKU Honolulu. This guy would rather have “Small Wonder” on that station than home shopping 24/7.
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