Fall Comes Early to KDOC

[RadioFanBoy]

The station is rolling out it's new fall schedule in stages. One classic show is returning, and eight (so far) are making their station debut, three of which are compleatly new to syndication.

The first stage, beginning this week, is the new Prime-Time lineup. Movies will remain on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday nights, and the back-to-back episodes of Party of Five will stay on Thursdays (they're about mid-way through Season One for those keeping track). Beginning 8/21, Fridays will be 70's Action Night featuring Charlie's Angeles and Starsky and Hutch. Saturdays will belong to Fantasy Island, and Urban Comedy will be the Sunday night theme with Good Times(7-8pm), Sanford and Son(8-9pm), and the more recent Malcom and Eddie(9-10pm). This new block of Sunday night comedy will expand in mid-Septmber to include re-runs of Comedy Central's The Chapple Show. The latter will be part of a new late-night expansion of weekends for the station, that will include the MTV looks-like-a-soap-opera reality shows Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, and its sequel The Hills.

The still being revised weekday AND weekend daytime schedules will include the sitcoms My Wife and Kids (moving from KTLA), and Everybody Hates Chris.

The new fall schedules for all the local stations come out August 25th. Come back then.

 

[Neel]

Also, there's now some Spanish programming on KDOC-DT2

 

[OCradiodude]

If anyone hasn't yet noticed, there is no longer listed as KDOC-HD. It's now listed as KDOC-SD.

Can't say I'm shocked to see newer programing entering the stations. From reading prior conversations from the former guy in charge of their programing, they could probably use some cash right now. I don't think that all the older shows were making enough money for them, especially in this economy. At least now younger people may have more of a reason to watch.

I don't doubt that the rebranding from "the OC station" to "the Los Angeles station" goes with the new programing.

 

[Robnoxious]

If anyone hasn't yet noticed, there is no longer listed as KDOC-HD. It's now listed as KDOC-SD.

Your tuner might have figured it out without rescanning but 56.1 (formally known as KDOC-HD) and 56.2 (KDOC-SD) ran concurrently along with 56.3 (KDOC-SD2). All the channels ran the same thing as the main channel. A huge waste of their bandwidth if you ask me but as always, nothing can be viewed as surprising when it comes to the operation of KDOC.

All they did was kill the KDOC-HD stream and remapped 56.2 to 56.1 and added ESNE-TV to 56.3 remapped to 56.2.

And after saving quite a few Mbps by killing one stream you would think they could bump a few extra bytes into KDOC-SD for a better picture? Hah, fat chance this is KDOC where their motto is "Logic doesn't fly around here, bub."

 

[Michael Rivers Kramer]

I don't doubt that the rebranding from "the OC station" to "the Los Angeles station" goes with the new programing.

They probably figured out that specifically targeting the OC (population 3,000,000) out of the greater DMA (Population 17,000,0000 +) was NOT going to help there numbers. It's not like viewers in Orange County are going to say gee, I think I'll watch Perry Mason today because it's on OUR LOCAL station. That rinky dink morning show didn't help either.

Anyway, I do love the retro programming on KDOC.

 

[livingfruitvirus]

If anyone hasn't yet noticed, there is no longer listed as KDOC-HD. It's now listed as KDOC-SD.

Can't say I'm shocked to see newer programing entering the stations. From reading prior conversations from the former guy in charge of their programing, they could probably use some cash right now. I don't think that all the older shows were making enough money for them, especially in this economy. At least now younger people may have more of a reason to watch.

I don't doubt that the rebranding from "the OC station" to "the Los Angeles station" goes with the new programing.

They could use some cash? Isn't most of their schedule brokered programming at the moment?