Did MTV2 broadcast affiliates actually exsist?

[wpxt]

I was on wikipedia reading about MTV2 and at the bottom of the page it said List of MTV2 broadcast affiliates so I clicked on it and found that it currently has 6 affiliates and 3 former affiliates. Now is this true or made up by wikipedia because I didn't think MTV2 would be offered for free anywhere?

 

[byron]

Yes, they did. This happened because a network known as The Box (aka The Jukebox Network) service was acquired by MTV2's owners Viacom and later shut down. Many of The Box-owned LP affiliates were also acquired, so MTV2 replaced The Box on many of the national affiliates, mostly low power stations. MTV2 aired on these affiliates usually by means of a DirecTV or Dish Network account at the transmitter location, relaying the national channel complete with DTV or Dish-inserted national advertisements.

There was usually some form of character generator for EAS crawls, local hourly IDs or other stuff that needed to be on the screen, but other than that...not much but the MTV2 programming. Some stations I recall would pipe in E/I stuff on Sunday mornings to meet requirements.

Other stations may have moved on and carried something else after the first couple of years... Spanish/regional programming, or some other filler programming you would expect to find on a LP station.

Others may know more/correct me on any of this...

Byron

 

[Apollo7979]

WBXI-CA in Indianapolis went from MTV2 to a simulcast of then sister station, UPN affiliated WNDY in 2003 or 2004. After WNDY was sold, WBXI reverted back to MTV2 then to MTV Tres, which is the network the station is affilated with today.

I'm not sure about the other stations.

 

[cd637299]

Don't quote me, but I'm almost sure that some LPTV in Tallahassee ran MTV2, back in them there analog days (wanna say 2004).

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[RadioDaze]

In the fall of 1989, Durham and Raleigh got low power affiliates of the Jukebox Network, W13BW in Durham and W13CI in Raleigh. I was a sixth-grader in Durham at the time and was unfamiliar with low-power TV, so I was fascinated by the new station, which scrolled a jukebox-style list of songs, with their codes you could call in and play via a 1-900 number. There was a creepy sounding automated robotic voice that was interspersed with the song list saying such things as, "power to the People, right here on the Jukebox Network" or "Be your own Veejay". Early on, an ID slide popped up, but in later years, these went away. W13BW aired from the radio tower at the old Nello Teer Rock Quarry in northern Durham while W13CI broadcast from a tower off Chapel Hill Road near the Fairgrounds. W13BW later became class-A station WUBX-CA while W13CI didn't go class A but got new calls, WBXU-LP. I lost track of the stations in the 2000s and they apparently went dark when MTV2 switched to Spanish-music Tres in 2006 (per Wikipedia)

 

[JeffSteele]

Jackson, Mississippi had an MTV2 affiliate: WBXK, channel 8 (formerly, W08CU: 1990-1995).

In January, 2005, WBXK ditched MTV2 for wall-to-wall informercials. On February 2, the station became a UATV (Urban America Television) affiliate. But when UATV bit the dust (May 1, 2006?), WBXK was off-the-air for a few days and then it became an America One affiliate.

In 2007, WBXK had mysteriously disappeared from the airwaves--and has been dark ever since.

 

[MCarney]

WFXZ-CA in Boston carried MTV2 from 2001 to 2006, when they switched to Azteca America. I only saw this station twice - both times while waiting for my car to be repaired. I couldn't pull it in anywhere else.

 

[TheRob]

Yes, the former WBWX-CA in Minneapolis carried MTV2 when I lived there. A subsidiary of Viacom owned the station at the time.

 

[Poledo]

Don't quote me, but I'm almost sure that some LPTV in Tallahassee ran MTV2, back in them there analog days (wanna say 2004).

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Don't quote me either, but I think MTV2/Box was on two different channels in Tally... I don't know if they were on one and moved to another or just had two translators in different parts of the town. Thinking this was almost a decade ago. Maybe channel 35?

 

[flytrap]

Jackson, Mississippi had an MTV2 affiliate: WBXK, channel 8 (formerly, W08CU: 1990-1995).

In January, 2005, WBXK ditched MTV2 for wall-to-wall informercials. On February 2, the station became a UATV (Urban America Television) affiliate. But when UATV bit the dust (May 1, 2006?), WBXK was off-the-air for a few days and then it became an America One affiliate.

In 2007, WBXK had mysteriously disappeared from the airwaves--and has been dark ever since.

"The Box" and later MTV2 also simulcast the channel 8 programming on channel 49 in Jackson, MS with a pretty decent signal. Another interesting fact. MTV2 had a late night show that featured controversial videos that had been banned from MTV at some point. These were broadcast complete and uncut even over the broadcast stations. If I remember correctly they played "Closer by Nine inch Nails which included the "F" word and some nudity, Madonna's "Justify my Love" uncensored with all sorts of depravity, the uncut version of "Slap my Bitch" with the nude scene intact and the poop eating guys in the monkey suits in the Bloodhounds Gangs song "The Bad Touch"
It was defintely different seeing boobs and "F" bombs on broadcast TV. And I don't even have cable. I'm surprised nobody complained to the FCC. But I doubt many people were watching a flea powered UHF station at 1AM.

 

[milwaukee_dave]

Here in Milwaukee, we had MTV2 until early 2006 on low-power WMKE-CA, Channel 7 (formerly Channel Eight). The station, which I believe is still around and broadcasting on analog, is now an affiliate of America One. Like many of the examples listed above, WMKE (also known previously as W08BY and WMKE-LP) was an affiliate of The Box before the Viacom takeover.

 

[JeffSteele]

"The Box" and later MTV2 also simulcast the channel 8 programming on channel 49 in Jackson, MS with a pretty decent signal. Another interesting fact. MTV2 had a late night show that featured controversial videos that had been banned from MTV at some point. These were broadcast complete and uncut even over the broadcast stations. If I remember correctly they played "Closer by Nine inch Nails which included the "F" word and some nudity, Madonna's "Justify my Love" uncensored with all sorts of depravity, the uncut version of "Slap my Bitch" with the nude scene intact and the poop eating guys in the monkey suits in the Bloodhounds Gangs song "The Bad Touch"

It was defintely different seeing boobs and "F" bombs on broadcast TV. And I don't even have cable. I'm surprised nobody complained to the FCC. But I doubt many people were watching a flea powered UHF station at 1AM.

That was WJXF (channel 49).

And MTV's Most Controversial Videos was the name of the program that showed controversial videos banned by MTV.

 

[Poledo]

...Another interesting fact. MTV2 had a late night show that featured controversial videos that had been banned from MTV at some point. These were broadcast complete and uncut even over the broadcast stations. If I remember correctly they played "Closer by Nine inch Nails which included the "F" word and some nudity, Madonna's "Justify my Love" uncensored with all sorts of depravity, the uncut version of "Slap my Bitch" with the nude scene intact and the poop eating guys in the monkey suits in the Bloodhounds Gangs song "The Bad Touch"
It was defintely different seeing boobs and "F" bombs on broadcast TV. And I don't even have cable. I'm surprised nobody complained to the FCC. But I doubt many people were watching a flea powered UHF station at 1AM.

No big deal. I can remember seeing boobies on The Benny Hill Show every Sunday night at 10:30 PM on WALA in Mobile, Alabama. This would have been around 1980-1985. Surely things have lightened up by now and people can live with a little nudity and profanity on their TV. Remember, if you don't like it, change the channel or turn off the TV.

I happened to watch part of the return of 120 Minutes on MTV2 a couple days ago. The host, Matt Pinfield, described several of the videos he played as "the unedited version" including the suicide shot ending Pearl Jam's "Jeremy". I never knew they made regular and PG versions of music videos since the only place they were played was on cable TV... and late night on Superstation WTBS (what was that show called?)

 

[azumanga]

I can remember seeing boobies on The Benny Hill Show every Sunday night at 10:30 PM on WALA in Mobile, Alabama. This would have been around 1980-1985. Surely things have lightened up by now and people can live with a little nudity and profanity on their TV. Remember, if you don't like it, change the channel or turn off the TV.

Here in Tampa Bay in the early-1980s, we saw Benny on WTVT Saturday evenings at 7:30PM after Dance Fever, when kids are still watching. And another time, they ran "The Benny Hill Movie" (or whatever it was called) at 8PM, pre-empting a Peanuts special (not a holiday one, though). But apparently, despite some of the crass content, they had no complaints from the FCC or its viewers, nor did they introduce the episodes with a "parental discretion" advisory.

I never knew they made regular and PG versions of music videos since the only place they were played was on cable TV... and late night on Superstation WTBS (what was that show called?)

The show was "Night Tracks", which was on TBS on weekends:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Tracks

 

[justpassingthough]

Here in the Los Angeles market, KBEH is an affiliate for MTV Tr3s. Its licensed to Oxnard (which is in Ventura County) and was once the UPN affiliate for the Santa Barbara market. DirecTV provides it to LA customers, though.

 

[flytrap]

(QUOTE) No big deal. I can remember seeing boobies on The Benny Hill Show every Sunday night at 10:30 PM on WALA in Mobile, Alabama. This would have been around 1980-1985. Surely things have lightened up by now and people can live with a little nudity and profanity on their TV. Remember, if you don't like it, change the channel or turn off the TV.

Ahh yes, I remember the famous boobie shot of the girl who pulled off her bra on Benny Hill. It went by so fast if you blinked, you'd miss it. It was the big talk on the school bus the next day. I'm surprised they got away with that on broadcast. Made this 14 year old's eyes pop out. good times good times ha ha.

 

[KeyTimes950]

Channel 29, known for a time as WIIC (using the former callsign of a full-power NBC affiliate), carried MTV2 for a time in Pittsburgh. It was one of several low-powers that have come and gone here. Usually, such stations couldn't or wouldn't get cable carriage (I suspect more often the former, as is the case with still-on-the-air WBGN here and Comcast's refusal to carry it). Unless you had a heck of an antenna system, it wasn't worth the trouble to view it.

These days, if you're looking for videos in this market, you can go to The Cool TV on a subchannel of WPMY-22 or Country Network on a subchannel of WPGH-53, both Sinclair-owned in Pittsburgh.