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L.A. Diginets switching on January 3rd

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ShawnHill1

Weigel Broadcasting, the Chicago-based company that recently purchased KAZA Channel 54, is moving its MeTV network there effective Wednesday, January 3rd. Weigel's Heroes & Icons, currently on KCOP Channel 13.4, is moving to MeTV Hollywood's old spot on KDOC 56.3. As result, 13.4, for the time being, will be deleted. The Azteca (America) affiliation will also, on the same day, move to KJLA 57.1, which is the home to LATV; with that, LATV moves to sister station KVMD 31.1 (which currently airs Spanish religious programming, among the station's many subchannels).

With all said, with MeTV's move to KAZA (surely with call letters soon to change in the near-future), it gives Me complete full-coverage in Southern California with cable and satellite, as Cox is the only local TV provider currently not carrying MeTV. Spectrum, Fios, Dish, DirecTV, and U-verse all either carry the KDOC or KVME feeds. Speaking of KVME, presumably, they'll still maintain their secondary affiliation.
 
There were two Me TV's in Chicago. I still want to know why KVME ME TV Hollywood on DirecTV now says KVME 20.2 Bishop when it used to say 20.1 Bishop?
 
ShawnHill1 said:
Weigel Broadcasting, the Chicago-based company that recently purchased KAZA Channel 54, is moving its MeTV network there effective Wednesday, January 3rd. Weigel's Heroes & Icons, currently on KCOP Channel 13.4, is moving to MeTV Hollywood's old spot on KDOC 56.3. As result, 13.4, for the time being, will be deleted. The Azteca (America) affiliation will also, on the same day, move to KJLA 57.1, which is the home to LATV; with that, LATV moves to sister station KVMD 31.1 (which currently airs Spanish religious programming, among the station's many subchannels).

With all said, with MeTV's move to KAZA (surely with call letters soon to change in the near-future), it gives Me complete full-coverage in Southern California with cable and satellite, as Cox is the only local TV provider currently not carrying MeTV. Spectrum, Fios, Dish, DirecTV, and U-verse all either carry the KDOC or KVME feeds. Speaking of KVME, presumably, they'll still maintain their secondary affiliation.
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I can't find the announcement. Where is it?

- Trip
 
Technically legacy Charter Spectrum never carried any MeTV affiliate either. ( I know I've been waiting for a long time to get it). So with KAZA' s switch, MeTV will now be on Charter systems in Glendale, Pasadena, San Gabriel Valley, and some inland empire areas as well.
 
It turns out that the announcement (wherever it came from) is true. As I’m typing this, some channel surfing on my part revealed that LATV is already on KVMD, with KAZA and KJLA both currently carrying Azteca América. I wonder what KAZA’s new call letters will be, if they change? I tried to suggest one possibility to Weigel via their email form, but got a server error when I pressed “Submit.” I suggested the call letters KLME (for Los Angeles Memorable Entertainment). A search for that callsign in the FCC database turned up no records, leading me to believe that it’s available.
 
I never saw a formal announcement online...believe me, I've searched around before I made the post. On MeTV's part, I saw promos promoting the move off and on during the previous week.

I've reading somewhere, as I'm writing, that MeTV is staying on KDOC 56.3, in addition to also showing up on KAZA 54.1, and H&I is going to KVME 20.1, in addition to staying on KCOP's subchannel suite. It's kinda confusing, quite honestly...we shall see come first thing tomorrow morning.
 
Weigel' ultimate goal is to graduate MeTV from .2 and .3 Diginet to full fledged OTA network/programming service. And now that MeTV Hollywood will have actual studio space in Glendale, original programming cannot be far behind :)
 
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What will happen to KVME/20 in Bishop? I assume it turns into Heroes & Icons and stays with the 56.3 simulcast. It's too bad channel 20 isn't used as a major network affiliate for the Eastern Sierra, but the population is so small out there that they wouldn't get any $$$. There is local news on the low-power Outside Television station in Bishop (KSRW-LP).
 
Still waiting for DirecTV to do what they announced would happen on 1/3/18 when Hero's & Icons was to be put on 54. For now just the A T & T symbol with music saying not to call them, they are working on it???
 
Why would DirecTV remove KAZA on 54? Wouldn't they just treat it like a local station and keep MeTV on there.

Also, I wonder if Time Warner Spectrum will get rid of the MeTV West feed that they put on a higher tier now that KAZA is on there.
 
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Why would DirecTV remove KAZA on 54? Wouldn't they just treat it like a local station and keep MeTV on there.

Also, I wonder if Time Warner Spectrum will get rid of the MeTV West feed that they put on a higher tier now that KAZA is on there.
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I'm 300 miles away Neel still in California. This is/was what they said would happen:

"EDITED/UPDATED 1/1/18 3:07PM (PT)
And in the Los Angeles market, Me-TV will be shifting to KAZA 54.1 on January 3rd. Weigel Broadcasting, owner of Me-TV, purchased KAZA in September. Me-TV in L.A. Metro has been on KDOC 56.3 and KVME 20.1 (Dish, DirecTV, and U-verse via KVME) for many years now. KAZA 54.1 is a must-carry on ALL providers in the L.A. market, so Me-TV will continue to be available on the satellite providers and other systems it was previously unavailable on (Cox and Charter).

Though it has not been officially confirmed, ads on 56.3 and KVME 20.1 state Heroes & Icons will be available on the 3rd. What now
appears to be the case is KVME is switching to H&I, with KDOC 56.3 apparently staying Me-TV. 56.3 now identifies as "Me-TV KDOC". KCOP 13.4 will continue to air H&I (via the deal between Fox O&Os and Weigel). Tried to get official answers on all of this, but the New Year's holiday made that difficult. We'll know for sure on Wednesday."
 
Great, now there are two ME TV's on DirecTV. At least when I used IVY Internet Cable in 2011 I had 4 ME TV's in 3 different time zones. Where's Hero's & Icons?
 
I just didn't understand why DirecTV was having difficulty with KAZA when they switched to MeTV. Unless they switched to lower power signal from full power as they sold off the spectrum.

It would make sense to switch KVME to H&I since they are already being carried by the satellite providers and U-verse. Wonder if KVME could get cable coverage in the LA area.
 
I also wondered why for the last couple of months at least on DirecTV, KVME 20.1 said KVME 20.2
 
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