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'Light TV' - New Diginet

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Light TV, a new, 24-hour faith and family entertainment network designed to tap into MGM’s library of titles, is being launched next month by Roma Downey, Mark Burnett and MGM in partnership with a number of Fox stations and affiliates. Plans for the channel were reported about a year ago when the studio agreed to buy the 45% stake it didn’t own in its United Artists Media Group joint venture from Downey, Burnett and Hearst, and then named Burnett as president of its Television and Digital Group. The venture, which will also develop original programming, now has a name and a plan.

Light TV, they say, will feature “wholesome family and faith-based entertainment programming” and will be the vehicle for the studio to be able to further monetize its film and TV library. The idea is not unlike TV Land in its early days or MeTV where the studio and Lightworkers’ Media Downey along with her husband Burnett who is President of MGM Television and Digital are lining up a bevy of titles to feed the machine. The programming will include Fox’s Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?, acquisition titles Highway to Heaven and Heartland and a bevy of films from the studio’s library: Rocky, Hoosiers, Red River, Little Man Tate, The Nutcracker, Lilies of the Field, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Black Stallion, All Dogs Go To Heaven, Pink Panther, Fame and Mr. Mom to name some of the titles.

The seven-day per week broadcast network already has signed up affiliates in top markets, including New York (WNYW), Los Angeles (KTTV). Chicago (WFLD), Philadelphia (WTXF), Dallas (KDFW) – Houston (KRIV), San Francisco (KTVU), D.C. (WTTG), Atlanta (WAGA), Orlando (WOFL), Phoenix (KSAZ), Minneapolis (KMSP) and Charlotte (WJZY).
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http://deadline.com/2016/11/roma-do...-light-tv-faith-based-network-fox-1201855425/
 
The more the better. People have been dropping cable providers in droves lately, especially with all of these diginets. Who needs TNT, USA, WGN America, FX, etc. when there's tons of free diginets full of classic (and some newer) entertainment?
 
crainbebo said:
The more the better. People have been dropping cable providers in droves lately, especially with all of these diginets. Who needs TNT, USA, WGN America, FX, etc. when there's tons of free diginets full of classic (and some newer) entertainment?
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There is a terrible price to pay if you watch the diginets live - commercials! Tons of the damn things and very repetitious to boot. You can see the same one six times per hour. They must be very cheap to air.
 
hamster said:
I wonder just how many of these new channels will even be around 5 years from now ??
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They may surprise you. From a revenue aspect they don't cost much to run and seem to make enough money to keep their signals alive. As long as there are $20 kitchen appliances and senior insurance to sell they will probably stay on the air. The content is directed mainly at Boomers but that will probably migrate to the younger watchers just as music has on the radio. Some of the programming is really good (by my standards) such as the old Zorro series by Disney and so forth. And it is about the only OTA place to find Westerns any longer. These genres have pretty good followings it seems.
 
The problem with these diginets is they come on the air and then remain stale. The same shows keep getting passed around amongst all the networks.
 
ansky212 said:
The problem with these diginets is they come on the air and then remain stale. The same shows keep getting passed around amongst all the networks.
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Looking at the diginets in Phoenix they all seem to specialize. Some go for 60's comedy, some for 70's comedy and some a bit newer. Others go for action TV shows and others for action movies. Some go for Westerns, others for kid's fare. And one or two are just plain movie channels. I haven't noticed much overlap lately.
 
One day we will see CNN, ESPN, Fox News and even USA go the sub-channel route if and when Cable (and later Dish and /or DirecTV) goes extinct.
 
Seems every couple of months a new Diginet becomes available here airing programs
that I remember and enjoy.

Meanwhile I turn on my cable at 5:30 AM and find 130 channels I paid for are running infomercials.
WTH????
 
I'll have to do a rescan but as far as I know WAGA 5 in Atlanta is not broadcasting it: 5.1 Fox, 5.2 Movies!, 5.3 Buzzr
 
No, New York and Los Angeles got it, but the rest of the Fox stations will have to wait until some indeterminate time in 2017.
 
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