Get Ready To Bounce, Houston...

[DToTheJ]

KHOU will carry the new African-American-geared "Bounce TV" network on one of their digital subchannels upon its debut on September 26.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/470853-Bounce_TV_Sets_Launch_for_Sept_26.php

Well, at least it's not another religious station, right?

 

[gbranch]

Raycom stations KLTV Tyler and KSLA Shreveport will also be carrying Bounce TV.

 

[HoustonListener]

I wonder if or when Comcast might pick up this channel.

 

[stdjsb25]

Raycom stations KLTV Tyler and KSLA Shreveport will also be carrying Bounce TV.

Now to see what gets dropped from KLTV to make room on the signal.

 

[Mediafrog+]

I wonder if or when Comcast might pick up this channel.

It's apparently going to be on 11.2, which is already on Comcast channel 310.

 

[gbranch]

Now to see what gets dropped from KLTV to make room on the signal.

It seems unlikely that they will drop either This or La Vida. My guess is that it will be on 7.4. Tripinva already has it listed as 7.4 on rabbitears. Not sure if he has insider info or he is just guessing like the rest of us. We shall see.

KSLA will most likely drop Stormtracker Weather and put Bounce on 12.3. The trend across the country is for stations to be abandoning weather sub-channels.

 

[intx]

If it's going on 11.2, does that mean the non-stop loop of Great Day and news repeats -- with Roseanne thrown in for some odd reason -- will be going away?

 

[tripinva]

I have no way of listing things that are coming soon without either making an extraneous subchannel, as I've done with KLTV, or replacing an existing subchannel with the new programming, which I only do if I have a reasonable certainty that it will be replacing that subchannel. (See my listing for KLEG-LD as an example of the latter.)

- Trip

 

[HoustonListener]

If Bounce is going on 11.2, how will this affect the Dynamo games? Perhaps they will start 11.3

 

[someperson]

If Bounce is going on 11.2, how will this affect the Dynamo games? Perhaps they will start 11.3

They'll probably just preempt Bounce programming.

 

[etxwx]

Raycom stations KLTV Tyler and KSLA Shreveport will also be carrying Bounce TV.

Now to see what gets dropped from KLTV to make room on the signal.

Rumor is that BounceTV will replace ThisTV when the network launches. KLTV's bandwidth can only support 3 subchannels before the main channel becomes to poor for HD programming. The Raycom stations haven't been able to really sell ThisTV and make money on it. However, they've saved a ton by being able to record the movies and play them back on weekends without having to buy a syndicated movie package.

ThisTV is great, but just isn't being marketed as heavily and properly at least in this market. Telemundo/La Vida will stay in place as it is also the Telemundo affiliate on Suddenlink cable. It was always interesting that KLTV got to carry Telemundo (which is an NBC Universal property), but Raycom Media has several NBC stations so they were able to work the deal. Plus, KLTV had to wait out KXTX 39's contract with Suddenlink for carriage of the station.

 

[JHBrandt]

... KLTV's bandwidth can only support 3 subchannels before the main channel becomes too poor for HD programming....

I thought everyone's bandwidth was the same, but I agree: 4 subchannels (1 HD & 3 SD) on one signal does overtake the plumbing a bit too much, unless one of the SD subchannels were low-bandwidth (e.g., weather radar).

It's too bad to see east TX lose This, though Perhaps another ETX station can find a spot for it, as happened in DFW (though hopefully their PQ won't suffer as much as ours did from the switch)

 

[gbranch]

All stations get 19.2 Mbps in 6 MHz of bandwidth to use. But you are correct in that if you have a weather sub-channel that is relatively static, you can use less bandwidth for that channel and more for the others. I have noticed that the PQ for ThisTV on KSLA 12.2 Shreveport is much better than that on KLTV 7.2. I suspect that this is because KSLA's other sub-channel is Stormtracker weather, and they can get by with less bandwidth than LaVida on 7.3.

Hopefully KSLA will continue with ThisTV so those of us in the eastern part of the Tyler-Longview DMA can continue to receive it. But, if this is a decision coming down from Raycom Corp KSLA may be replacing it with Bounce as well.

At some point London will be doing something with KCEB, so the opportunity for additional sub-channels in the future still exists. KFXK and KETK still have room for 1 additional sub-channel each, and there should also be build-outs of digital facilities for KTPN-LD and KLPN-DT.

Shreveport has 3 stations with no sub-channels at all - KTAL, KMSS, and KSHV.

 

[TroyG]

I know that Houston's getting ready for BounceTV, but I wondering if BounceTV will be available in Dallas and in New Orleans-Through the subchannels of WFAA & WWL-TV? Dallas has a bigger population of African-Americans than Houston, As well as New Orleans.

 

[LibertyNT]

WFAA is pretty much out unless they drop AccuWeather from 8.2
maybe on sister station KFWD 52 though.

 

[gbranch]

I know that Houston's getting ready for BounceTV, but I wondering if BounceTV will be available in Dallas and in New Orleans-Through the subchannels of WFAA & WWL-TV? Dallas has a bigger population of African-Americans than Houston, As well as New Orleans.

Is that really true? According to http://www.tvb.org/media/file/Nielsen_African_American_DMA_Ranks.pdf, Houston ranks ahead of DFW and way ahead of New Orleans in the number of African American homes.