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NBC Launching Three Local 24-Hour Channels

In my area, KGW owns some pretty good real estate on channel 46. It's currently being used for nothing more than a weather map. I've a hunch this (or something along these lines) might also end up there at some point.
 
They already tried to do something similar in NYC a few years ago when "NY Non-Stop" came on the air (WNBC 4.2). The original plan was to be a news station but it is actually a public-interest channel with mostly real estate and other non-news programming.
 
This is, IIRC, to fulfill a promise to the FCC per the merger with Comcast. They promised to increase local news coverage, and I'd say this qualifies.
 
Darth_vader said:
In my area, KGW owns some pretty good real estate on channel 46. It's currently being used for nothing more than a weather map. I've a hunch this (or something along these lines) might also end up there at some point.
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Unlikely, since "Nonstop" is an NBC O&O thing. And KGW is owned by Belo, and is the Portland "bureau" for Northwest Cable News...which is likely not going on OTA subchannels anytime soon.

ETA: I take that back, apparently NWCN is on Belo's KTVB in Boise. on .3 with a local news repeat subchannel on .2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTVB

Anyway, if KGW did something, it would apparently be to simulcast NWCN. But I'm thinking they still stay cable-only in Portland and Seattle.
 
OhioMediaWatch said:
Unlikely, since "Nonstop" is an NBC O&O thing. And KGW is owned by Belo, and is the Portland "bureau" for Northwest Cable News...which is likely not going on OTA subchannels anytime soon.

ETA: I take that back, apparently NWCN is on Belo's KTVB in Boise. on .3 with a local news repeat subchannel on .2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTVB

Anyway, if KGW did something, it would apparently be to simulcast NWCN. But I'm thinking they still stay cable-only in Portland and Seattle.
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Hah, I started this reply to point you at KTVB, but that was apparently unnecessary. :)

- Trip
 
In Portland, KGW runs channel 8.1, 8.2 & 8.3.
8.2 is KGW 24/7, news repeats, and shows they don't run on 8.1.
8.3 is Spanish.
Since the digital migration, Portland now has over 22 channels, only one is Spanish!
 
tripinva said:
Hah, I started this reply to point you at KTVB, but that was apparently unnecessary. :)
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Yeah, as you were starting it, I was over looking at the NWCN Wikipedia page, and saw that they did the KTVB .3 simulcast. :D

I'm wondering if there were specific conditions/reasons they did that in Boise...is cable penetration low there?

And as noted here, KGW apparently has .3 filled with Spanish-language programming, so they probably aren't adding a .4 (since .1 is HD) for NWCN anyway, assuming they keep the repeats on .2.
 
Yes, Boise has something like 30% OTA usage, one of the highest in the country, and of the 70% who do subscribe to a service, 2/3 of them are on satellite.

- Trip
 
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