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Me-TV Returns To Bay area!!!
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Madmansam said:
They say cable placement is still being worked out -- here's hoping that doesn't take long.
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buffalo1
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Have just contacted my cable provider (Comcast) requesting that they carry KOFY sub-channel 20.2. I advise others to do the same if they want this to happen. The more people are heard from, the likelier that MeTV will get a spot in the cable channel line up, and the likelier that it will happen promptly.
I already did but Comcast told me that KOFY-20.2 is a digital subchannel that is outside of its DMA. I live In Stockton, which is outside of the Bay Area. I can get the MAIN KOFY channel but not its subchannel. KCSO is the Sacramento Affiliate of Me-TV but Comcast has a policy of not carrying LPTV digital subchannels.buffalo1 said:
Thanks, madmansam! This pretty much answers everything:
Q. When will Me-TV be on the air in the Bay Area?
A. We hope to have the network up and running over-the-air on 20.2 by November 14th.
Q. Will Comcast be carrying Me-TV?
A. Yes, although channel position has not yet been released by Comcast. We’ve been told that Comcast would like to begin airing the network as close to our launch date as possible. As soon as we get word, we will let you know!
Q. When will Me-TV be on the air in the Bay Area?
A. We hope to have the network up and running over-the-air on 20.2 by November 14th.
Q. Will Comcast be carrying Me-TV?
A. Yes, although channel position has not yet been released by Comcast. We’ve been told that Comcast would like to begin airing the network as close to our launch date as possible. As soon as we get word, we will let you know!
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KOFY now carrying MeTV on sub-channel 20.2, about two weeks ahead of schedule. No word about what cable channel it will be on.
Comcast announced today that Me-TV will be on Channel 196 "on or after Dec 22nd"
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As predicted, MeTv is, as of this morning, showing on Comcast channel 196.
Gotta say it was great to get Me-TV in time for Xmas. Tonite they showed the uncut version of Mr Magoo's Christmas Carol -- a personal fave; the first time I've seen it unedited in many years. (In syndication it has often had 7 or 8 minutes cut out of it.)
Since I've got back to town, I've spent some time checking out old shows on Me-TV, including Car 54, The Phil Silvers Show, and Honey West. I always loved Anne Francis as a horny 12 year old boy, but gawd - that show was awful.
The only one of the 3 that holds up at all is "Sergeant Bilko" - it seems more like a current-day TV show because the pace of Silver's comedy is so fast, and they let him get away with being such a dishonest and sneaky guy - very unusual in 50s television, when people had to be generally virtuous and honest...enforced by the "Standards and Practices" censors.
Out of curiosity, I've set my DVR for Peter Gunn and The Naked City, neither of which I've seen in 40+ years. And no doubt I'll check out The Rockford Files and Cannon once or twice.
But really, modern day TV is much superior. These retro TV networks make me realize that my somewhat snobbish mother was right in those days - TV was a "vast wasteland."
The only one of the 3 that holds up at all is "Sergeant Bilko" - it seems more like a current-day TV show because the pace of Silver's comedy is so fast, and they let him get away with being such a dishonest and sneaky guy - very unusual in 50s television, when people had to be generally virtuous and honest...enforced by the "Standards and Practices" censors.
Out of curiosity, I've set my DVR for Peter Gunn and The Naked City, neither of which I've seen in 40+ years. And no doubt I'll check out The Rockford Files and Cannon once or twice.
But really, modern day TV is much superior. These retro TV networks make me realize that my somewhat snobbish mother was right in those days - TV was a "vast wasteland."
Lkeller said:
Really, that's a somewhat subjective assessment. I'd generally agree that modern dramas tend to be better than the older ones. The difference in production values is just huge, and the writing tends to assume that viewers can follow more complex plots than was the case back in the sixties and seventies.
But in the case of comedies, I'll take many of the older ones over the current comedies. Frankly, the production values on the newer comedies aren't any better than for shows from the sixties or seventies, and I find the older shows to be funnier, as well.
YMMV
TexasTom said:
Clearly age is a factor -- people fondly remember what they watched as a kid or in college. There was some legendarily bad TV in the '60s and '70s (My Mother the Car, anyone? BJ and the Bear, perhaps?) but the stuff that retro channels show tends to hold up in one way or another. Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Morre, Bob Newhart -- these are widely considered some of the best-written sitcoms ever, and that's why Me-TV has 'em on in prime-time. But there were a lot more veteran writers back then, guys who'd cut their teeth on Broadway and working with people like Sid Caesar. And their equivalent doesn't really exist now.
The biggest shame, I think are the great (often quirky) shows that only lasted a season or 2 and are lost to the mists of time. Back before HA! and The Comedy Channel merged to become Comedy Central, HA! used to run a block each week of those kinda shows (partly because they were cheap to acquire, no doubt). You'd think somebody would try something like that, late at night.
According to the GM of KOFY TV 20, Me-TV has granted them permission to air Svengoolie on tape delayed to be shown after their own in house produced horror hosted show, Creepy KOFY Movie Time at 1:AM sometime in February on its main primary channel of 20.1 which is carried on MORE Cable systems than 20.2 of Me-TV as well as being on both Dish Network & DirecTV.
Madmansam said:
Interesting -- makessense to pair the 2 shows, I suppose. I wasn't aware until recently how many of those syndicated "Elvira" knockoffs there are, but Me-TV has "Svengoolie" and RTV has the godawful "Wolfman Mac" (tho' their local affiliate now pre-empts it with infomercials).
Mike said:
Every TV market had a late Saturday night horror movie, with some oddball host. In the SF Bay Area, it was Bob Wilkins on Creature Features. He didn't wear any kind of costume - he was just an offbeat little guy with a high voice with a big cigar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aZGN0VM2s8
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