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Me-TV is Now on in NYC

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qwertnyc

Time Warner Cable added Me-TV to Ch.144. I have no way of knowing if this is a national feed, WSAH from Bridgeport, CT, or something else. WSAH's line-up on Me-TV's website shows informercials late night and morning, but the TWC guide shows wall to wall classic TV. Anybody have any other insight?
 
The fact that it's an uninterrupted stream of non-infomercial programming is kind of a dead giveaway that it's not WSAH. If you stick around at the top of the hour, you'll see either the ID for the network or a local affiliate, that should answer your question.
 
Yeah no local ID, just Me-TV. Again, while the WSAH program guide shows E/I and infomercials this morning what's actually on the air is Petticoat Junction and Family Affair.
 
RobertAnthony said:
Well, folks add this to the fire...

WSAH is now WZME and ID's itself as MeTV New York. Their Legal ID is WZME Bridgeport/New York
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Interesting. Did the station get sold? Wasn't it up for auction a while back?
 
Nothing had been stated that WMFP is losing ME-TV. Weigel has a new carrige agreement with Hearst tv which includes WCVB. WCVB still has to get cable clearance for 5.2 when it goes live. WMFP already has cable clearance as well as Satellite clearance (Directv , DISH) So I am Sure Weigel (ME-TV) will allow for 2 ME-TV's in the same market.
 
I've heard talk that WZME is attempting to expand their signal, particularly to the New York City area. Have not seen anything further. Anyone have any details, and also how is it that Time Warner has a 24/7 feed while the station cuts half of the network programming in favor of advertising? I'd really like to see Cablevision add an uninterrupted feed as TWC did.
 
NYC viewer said:
I've heard talk that WZME is attempting to expand their signal, particularly to the New York City area. Have not seen anything further.
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I have been hearing this for years. There was talk of them moving to the ESB and I think they even had filed with the FCC to do so. But my guess is that it is at least partly cost prohibitive given the small size of the station.
 
We don't get any ME-TV Here in Middlesex County on Comcast of Central New Jersey. The Mercer County part of the system get it through a WFMZ (Allentown PA) sub channel but unfortunately Comcast does not see the need to distribute WFMZ or it's sub channel in Middlesex County in spite of the fact that we get every major Philadelphia channel in our lineup now in HD.
 
ansky212 said:
NYC viewer said:
I've heard talk that WZME is attempting to expand their signal, particularly to the New York City area. Have not seen anything further.
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I have been hearing this for years. There was talk of them moving to the ESB and I think they even had filed with the FCC to do so. But my guess is that it is at least partly cost prohibitive given the small size of the station.
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This most recent application, I believe, is dated late last year and is by the station's new owners. I have heard it shows a bit more promise than the station's previous attempts, but have not heard anything else about it.

I think another station with a small budget has accomplished something similar -- a station from Port Jervis moved their transmitter to 4 Times Square and operates on ch 24. They currently air Estrella, the Spanish language network that was on one of WPIX's subchannels, and also 3 channels from China Central TV.
 
Danfm said:
We don't get any ME-TV Here in Middlesex County on Comcast of Central New Jersey. The Mercer County part of the system get it through a WFMZ (Allentown PA) sub channel but unfortunately Comcast does not see the need to distribute WFMZ or it's sub channel in Middlesex County in spite of the fact that we get every major Philadelphia channel in our lineup now in HD.
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Comcast won't distribute WFMZ's Me-TV in Atlantic County either, because it doesn't distribute WFMZ's primary signal there, and Atlantic is within the Philly DMA.
 
Comcast does carry WFMZ TV's main channel in Northwest New Jersey in Warren and Sussex counties.

However, that same cable system does not carry Me-TV or the RTV channels that WFMZ also broadcasts on its digital sub channels.

WFMZ-TV does provide regular news coverage to Warren County, NJ and makes an effort to market itself there, but Warren County is still classified as in the Nielsen NYC TV market, and Allentown is in Philly.

If it were radio, then Warren County is part of the Lehigh Valley Arbitron market, which is separate from NYC and Philly.
 
Just for the record, I have Time-Warner in North Jersey and they carry Me-TV directly from the network. No rebroadcast of a local station. And no infomercials. I guess must-carry rules don't apply to Time-Warner NYC/NJ because they're too far away from Bridgeport?

Yet my dad has Verizon Fios and they carry the WZME feed from Connecticut. You can see the Me-TV New York logo in the corner of the screen. So at 11pm, they switch to infomercials. No Twilight Zone, no late night broadcast of Perry Mason, although WZME does carry the 10am edition.

I'm not aware of any other cable system that takes Me-TV directly from the network.
 
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