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kvue contract with time warner set to expire

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The KVUE page was apparently written in Dallas. It says, "In Dallas-Fort Worth there are both UHF and VHF digital signals."
 
I still find it somewhat amazing the cable companies are expected to pay TV stations to distribute their programs and commercials. How many viewers would WFAA lose if it wasn't carried on TWC?
 
Megapsycle said:
I still find it somewhat amazing the cable companies are expected to pay TV stations to distribute their programs and commercials. How many viewers would WFAA lose if it wasn't carried on TWC?
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Keep in mind it also benefits TWC to carry all the major local stations. If subscribers had to hook up antennas to get WFAA, cable wouldn't be nearly as attractive.

But the fact that the economics works in favor of TWC paying local stations, rather than the latter just opting for must-carry, might still be amazing, I suppose. As I recall, a major selling point for cable when DBS first got started was that cable carried the local stations while satellite initially required an OTA antenna for local coverage. (Satellite quickly added local stations to their services for that reason.)

Of course, receiving local stations OTA isn't as much of a drawback as it was in the analog era, since digital broadcasting provides near-perfect reception of high-definition broadcasts. But there's still the drawback of having to fumble with two remotes: one for the TV and one for the cable/satellite box, and most folks wouldn't want to put up with that.
 
JHBrandt said:
Of course, receiving local stations OTA isn't as much of a drawback as it was in the analog era, since digital broadcasting provides near-perfect reception of high-definition broadcasts.
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Reception is perfect, but getting there has become more of a battle, especially if the TV signals are coming from different directions.
 
IS KHOU in Houston on any Time Warner Systems? They ran a blurb on the weekend news with Shern-Min Chow stating that Belo had reached an agreement with Time Warner and that KHOU would be staying on Time Warner uninterrupted. With Comcast having taken over the Time Warner franchise covering most of immediate Houston, are there any Time Warner areas still in the Houston market or carryign KHOU?
 
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