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MGM To Start SubChannel "Network"

Markxxx

Markxxx

From Broadcasting and Cable:

Stations are getting another option for the post-digital switchover world as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is rolling out “This TV,” a new ad-supported around-the-clock linear digital channel designed for broadcast stations’ digital spectrum.

The new network, a partnership with Chicago-based Weigel Broadcasting, will launch this fall. It gets immediate carriage with Weigel stations in Chicago, Milwaukee and South Bend, Ind.

The idea is for MGM is to leverage its library of more than 4,100 films and 10,000 hours of television programming, but also to give stations the chance to localize the look.

Full story at:

http://tinyurl.com/6bttp6

Since this will be partnered with Weigel I wonder if this will be IN ADDITION to Me-TV And Me-Too(TV) or if it'll be replacing it. I know Weigel said it will stop carrying Me-TV and Me-Too once both of those stations have digital low power stations in gear.

Sounds kind of like an RTN type thing
 
This may be a really stupid question…but does MGM have any rights to air Tom and Jerry? Or is it only Turner who has rights?

(I ask because of the MGM lion shown at the beginning of the cartoons.)
 
tenchances said:
This may be a really stupid question…but does MGM have any rights to air Tom and Jerry? Or is it only Turner who has rights?

(I ask because of the MGM lion shown at the beginning of the cartoons.)
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The cartoons were part of the library acquired by Turner in the 80s.
 
...as I understand it, the current-day MGM has the post-Turner MGM/United Artists library (plus, as I recall [correct me if I err here], "Medical Center" and the TV series of "Fame," both MGM-TV series which Kirk Kirkorian took in partial trade for Ted Turner plucking "Gilligan's Island" and the original "Outer Limits" out of the UA-TV library), American International (which included at one point the U.S. syndication rights for "The Avengers"), Filmways, Orion, Allied Artists and one or two additional collections (Ziv, perhaps?) that I'm forgetting right now...
 
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