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KQSL/SF adds FilmOn, and ATT UVerse

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PJ

It looks like KQSL in the SF Bay Area has dumped CoolTV (And a lot of Infomercials-Yay!) for FilmOn TV, which is also airing on KHIZ (Now KILM) in LA. A lot of music videos, entertainment newsmagazines, and battlecam (Kindof like webcam users chatting it up). The station is on Dish, now its also on ATTUverse. I recall that this station was originally affiliated with RetroTV, but considering the state of Retro, I don't blame them for ditching them.
 
PJ said:
It looks like KQSL in the SF Bay Area has dumped CoolTV (And a lot of Infomercials-Yay!) for FilmOn TV, which is also airing on KHIZ (Now KILM) in LA. A lot of music videos, entertainment newsmagazines, and battlecam (Kindof like webcam users chatting it up). The station is on Dish, now its also on ATTUverse. I recall that this station was originally affiliated with RetroTV, but considering the state of Retro, I don't blame them for ditching them.
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What Channel is KQSL-TV I never heard of them?
 
Lkeller said:
PJ said:
It looks like KQSL in the SF Bay Area...
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Fort Bragg is NOT "in the SF Bay Area," anymore than Sacramento is. The nine Bay Area counties are all counties that have at least some direct access to San Francisco Bay. Ft. Bragg is in Mendocino County, which is not on the Bay.

http://www.abag.ca.gov/abag/local_gov/county/county.html
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I grew up in the Bay Area and I too was confused. Channel 8 for me was KSBW 8 from the Santa Cruz/Monterey Bay area.
 
Much like the "Los Angeles" stations KVME/Bishop; KVMD/29 Palms, KHIZ/KILM/Barstow (All part of the Los Angeles DMA), Fort Bragg is considered part of the San Francisco DMA--So I guess KQSL is taking the same route with its attempts to garner coverage. I believe the former owner Pappas was attempting the same results, before his entire TV Group was forced into bankruptcy.
 
PJ said:
Much like the "Los Angeles" stations KVME/Bishop; KVMD/29 Palms, KHIZ/KILM/Barstow (All part of the Los Angeles DMA), Fort Bragg is considered part of the San Francisco DMA--So I guess KQSL is taking the same route with its attempts to garner coverage. I believe the former owner Pappas was attempting the same results, before his entire TV Group was forced into bankruptcy.
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Back in the 70s and perhaps early 80s, Sacramento stations were included in our cable channel line up here in San Francisco and Marin counties. That was pre-satellite, of course.

But in recent decades, the farthest distance station available here on Comcast has been KFTY in Santa Rosa - which IS in a Bay Area county - Sonoma County.
 
PJ said:
Much like the "Los Angeles" stations KVME/Bishop; KVMD/29 Palms, KHIZ/KILM/Barstow (All part of the Los Angeles DMA), Fort Bragg is considered part of the San Francisco DMA--So I guess KQSL is taking the same route with its attempts to garner coverage. I believe the former owner Pappas was attempting the same results, before his entire TV Group was forced into bankruptcy.
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Interesting information. Also interesting to hear about the Sacramento stations being part of the Bay Area cable lineup. So would you end up with two stations on your lineup with the same programming? I guess that was before blackout rules?
 
stewie said:
PJ said:
Much like the "Los Angeles" stations KVME/Bishop; KVMD/29 Palms, KHIZ/KILM/Barstow (All part of the Los Angeles DMA), Fort Bragg is considered part of the San Francisco DMA--So I guess KQSL is taking the same route with its attempts to garner coverage. I believe the former owner Pappas was attempting the same results, before his entire TV Group was forced into bankruptcy.
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Interesting information. Also interesting to hear about the Sacramento stations being part of the Bay Area cable lineup. So would you end up with two stations on your lineup with the same programming? I guess that was before blackout rules?
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Yes - but what the cable company (Viacom in those days) had to do was turn off the Sacramento feed during network programming hours, and substitute the local San Francisco feed. So, for example, if you were watching KCRA 3 (NBC) in Sacto, at 8:00 PM, KRON 4 would be plugged in. So you'd get KRON's previews for the 11:00 news, KRON's local commercials, etc. You could actually detect the switch-over because it would ususally be a few seconds before the end of a KCRA program, or in the middle of a KCRA comercial.
 
Another thing I remember from that era was watching anchorman Pete Wilson on the KTXL (TV 40) "Ten O'Clock News Plus," I believe it was called. That was before Wilson got his big break in San Francisco at KGO-TV.
 
stewie said:
PJ said:
Much like the "Los Angeles" stations KVME/Bishop; KVMD/29 Palms, KHIZ/KILM/Barstow (All part of the Los Angeles DMA), Fort Bragg is considered part of the San Francisco DMA--So I guess KQSL is taking the same route with its attempts to garner coverage. I believe the former owner Pappas was attempting the same results, before his entire TV Group was forced into bankruptcy.
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Interesting information. Also interesting to hear about the Sacramento stations being part of the Bay Area cable lineup. So would you end up with two stations on your lineup with the same programming? I guess that was before blackout rules?
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Growing up in Stockton (near Sacramento), my cable system carried Bay Area Channels in addition the the Sacramento ones. None of the major network affiliates (KRON-KPIX-KGO) were carried until 1981 but in 1974, They carried KTVU-2, KQED-9, KEMO-20 (now KOFY-TV) and KBHK-44 (now KBCW-TV). In 1978, they added KTSF-26, KGSC-36 (now KICU-TV), KQEC-32 (now KMTP-TV), KVOF-38 (now KCNS-TV) and KDTV-60 (which soonafter became KCSM-TV). Today the only Bay Area TV Stations on my cable system are KQED-9, KOFY-20 & KICU-36.
 
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