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HAS ANY OF YOU?-OH MY, CHANNEL 62 MADE A BIG MISTAKE BY

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MR. JAROME_CALVIN

Has any of you seen that "Plum Channel" on 62.1 or your current TV Supplier?
Oh My God.
Program Management at Channel 62 made a BIG mistake by putting that on. They should've put something like "Antanna TV" or "Bounce TV" in replace of (Me TV).

They made a BIG mistake!!!!
 
No they didn't. I bet you a dollar Plum is buying the time. Why can't you get the simple fact that profits matter but viewers do not?
 
LAUROJRM said:
Has any of you seen that "Plum Channel" on 62.1 or your current TV Supplier?
Oh My God.
Program Management at Channel 62 made a BIG mistake by putting that on. They should've put something like "Antanna TV" or "Bounce TV" in replace of (Me TV).

They made a BIG mistake!!!!
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Channel 62 is basically a "dollar-a-holler" station (all brokered programming). WMFP does not produce any local programming and they sell their time to various interests. More than likely, "Plum TV" has bought the time on 62.1 and that RTV re-negotiated their contract just to stay in the market by moving to the 62.2 subchannel. I'm sure that MeTV wanted to put some semblance of a presence in Boston by the "soft" launching of MeTV on WMFP over the past 9 months. It looked like (to me at least) a "test" of sorts to see how well MeTV would be received by Boston area viewers. It worked! So much in fact that Hearst made a smart decision to add MeTV to many of their other TV stations (including WCVB-TV in Boston). Now that WCVB added 5.2 for MeTV, the WMFP experiment was over. In comes Plum TV to replace it on the 62.1 ..
 
I don't think many (if any) cable systems in the Boston area carry the 62.2 service.

Thus, I feel WMFP should have put Retro TV on 62.1 and Plum on 62.2.
 
Joseph_Gallant said:
I don't think many (if any) cable systems in the Boston area carry the 62.2 service.

Thus, I feel WMFP should have put Retro TV on 62.1 and Plum on 62.2.
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WMFP isn't using some sort of discretion in this exercise. 62.1 goes to whomever is willing to pay the lease price. Nothing more, nothing less. Maybe you should contact RTV and ask them why they didn't pay up to be on the .1?
 
Never heard of Plum before, but it looks like "Live Well Network II" to me.

-crainbebo
 
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