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Movies Return to KDOC 5 Days A Week

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RadioFanBoy

Those 5 days being Mon-Tue-Wed-Sat-Sun :p

KDOC begins a Prime Time wheel of shows and movies from 8-10pm starting June 29th.

Movies from Columbia, the old American International Library, United Artists, and post-1980 MGM flicks will be seen Mon-Wed.

Party of Five (which is from Columbia/Sony) will be seen in back-to back shows on Thursdays

America's Funniest Home Videos will air Fri-Sat.

To make room Star Trek is moving to 10pm and The Twilight Zone to 11pm.

The current weekend line-up of Wild Wild West, Gunsmoke, and Bonanza will now be seen Sundays only.

Add to this the return of weekend movies, this time starting at 5pm (or as early as 4 and 4:30pm depending on length), and Fraiser now six nights a week from 7-8pm.

The opening week of movies is pretty diverse:

6/29 Memento (French made thriller from 2000)

6/30 Breaker, Breaker (1977 - Chuck Norris and Roger Corman......Cheesy Goodness)

7/02 Valley Girl (1983)

7/04 Revenge (1990 w/Kevin Costner)

7/05 Encore of Breaker, Breaker

Oh yes, almost forgot.......Night Gallery at 3am and again at 4am.
 
I'll never ever understand that 3a-4a slot KDOC runs. There's always "something" there that isn't an infomercial sandwiched in between blocks and blocks of infomercials. Why not run Night Gallery right after TZ and let Billy Mays hawk his crap in the dead of night as God intended? It make too much sense I guess.

The caliber of movies doesn't seem much better than the fare THIS-TV is currently airing. Breaker, Breaker was in rotation on THIS a month or two ago. Seems like the same library of films too. KDOC really dropped the ball by not picking up RTN or THIS-TV. They were slated to be a THIS affiliate but nothing ever came from it and KTLA snatched it up. Had KDOC went through with THIS, KTLA might have put RTN on it's subchannel instead of winding up on a Barstow fringe caster that barely gets a whisper of a signal into LA proper.

The only thing left that isn't a Godcast is the .2 Network and I predict that subchannel will never see the light of day anywhere.
 
It is pretty bothersome that 56 is wasting its digital bandwith with three subchannels airing the exact same programming. Also, the HD sub is a waste now since they air nothing in high-definition, not even the Fox Sports Net-produced Ducks telecasts. What KDOC should do is the same thing that Weigel Broadcasting did in Chicago and Milwaukee...create its own classic TV channel. I imagine that they're still sitting on those classic shows that were shelved in recent times, and that's a starting base right there, with Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Mork & Mindy, The Munsters, Get Smart, and among others. If they still have the rights to those shows, it should cost next to nothing to launch its own classics channel. They could also go after old shows that haven't aired on local TV in years...like Gilligan's Island, What's Happening, The Jeffersons, All in the Family, and so on.

Hell, they could bring out the old Wally George Hot Seat shows from yesteryear...run them at the old Saturday 11pm timeslot. I was too young to understand what Wally and his guests were talking about when the shows originally aired, but it was great unintentional comedy with the bickering between he and his guests.
 
ShawnHill1 said:
Hell, they could bring out the old Wally George Hot Seat shows from yesteryear...run them at the old Saturday 11pm timeslot.
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For the other vacant subchannel slot, they could rent it out to the late Gene Scott's ministry.
 
some movie that are airing on KDOC like patriot games and valley girl also airing on KCOP 13, why are they airing on both stations i don't get it
 
I didn't realize Valley Girl was just aired on My 13, but Paramount is now sharing the one-a-month title package with both Fox Stations and KDOC. Mostly because KDOC will air these movies during the week in Prime Time, which CBS/Paramount sees as a plus for the national ads they sell. I sususpect its also a thank you for KDOC briefly picking up those Montel Williams reruns, and more recently the newly re-mastered and effects enhanced Star Trek, for a five night a week run (paid for, not bartered)
 
RadioFanBoy said:
I sususpect its also a thank you for KDOC briefly picking up those Montel Williams reruns, and more recently the newly re-mastered and effects enhanced Star Trek, for a five night a week run (paid for, not bartered)
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Unless something has changed very recently, Star Trek is only available for two runs during the weekend, on a bartered basis.

Star Trek: The Next Generation is, however, being offered for five night a week runs during the week starting this fall. That's also on a bartered basis, and does not feature remastered and enhanced effects.
 
TexasTom said:
Unless something has changed very recently, Star Trek is only available for two runs during the weekend, on a bartered basis.

Star Trek: The Next Generation is, however, being offered for five night a week runs during the week starting this fall. That's also on a bartered basis, and does not feature remastered and enhanced effects.
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Star Trek Original moved to 10p to make room for movies during the week. I don't think they are the remastered versions as they are in 4:3 while when KTLA aired it over weekends last Fall they were formatted 16:9. Bartered vs. non-bartered means nothing to me as a viewer but when has KDOC ever done anything not on the cheap? I'd lean toward whatever option costs KDOC the least.

Nice to hear ST:TNG will get another run soon. That was a great series.
 
You're right about KDOC on the cheap Rob. They're showing Star Trek in 4:3, and it's SUPPOSED to be 16:9 on their HD channel. They just went for the standard prints. But it's the all CGI'd up Enterprise you see, as well as the bigger looking planets, and so forth. That's what CBS/Paramount put into circulation this past season. It will be interesting to see where KTLA puts ST:TNG come the fall. My best guess at the moment is at 11pm.
 
RadioFanBoy said:
You're right about KDOC on the cheap Rob. They're showing Star Trek in 4:3, and it's SUPPOSED to be 16:9 on their HD channel. They just went for the standard prints. But it's the all CGI'd up Enterprise you see, as well as the bigger looking planets, and so forth. That's what CBS/Paramount put into circulation this past season.
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This is incorrect.

The remastered episodes have been in syndication for almost three years, at this point. The *only* version offered to broadcast stations is the remastered version with CGI effects. While the program was remastered in HD (both 4:3 and 16:9 versions exist), the *only* version offered in syndication is the 4:3 standard definition version.

"Star Trek" is not available in syndication in a widescreen, 16:9 version. CBS has not indicated when such a version might become available. Here's the information that is on their website:

STAR TREK has nine day window that runs Saturday through the following Sunday. One episode is delivered each week, so stations that have licensed two runs will repeat the episode during the 9 day exhibition period. The show can not be aired Monday through Friday.

STAR TREK is closed captioned and in stereo on Channels 1 & 2 and SAP Mono Spanish on Channel 4. Delivery is in standard definition, from the newly transferred masters and including the enhanced visual effects.
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