NBC TURNS NON STOP INTO NATIONAL SUB CHANNEL

[gregg75]

This might be a slight improvement.........with both national and local segments/shows.
Now the entire country can learn how to get their sheets even whiter and how to unstop a
toilet .

So I guess this is what they plan to replace Universal Sports with.

http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/2011/11/03/55187/nbc-reinvents-nonstop-as-national-diginet

 

[mgsports]

Good we might before next year in Orlando and KC.

 

[Mario500]

I would be more excited if only "All Night with Joey Reynolds" was still in production (it was broadcast by WNBC-TV for their local Nonstop sub-channel). It would have had a great chance of being broadcast nationally if it were still in production.

Here are some links to information about the program:

http://www.allnightwithjoeyreynolds.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/allnightwithjoeyreynoldscom/145946232128871?sk=wall&filter=1

 

[mysticnitekatt]

It's going to be a sub-channel on stations that are basically FOX's "Ghetto"

 

[FreddyE1977]

does that mean Universal Sports is going away on non-NBC owned stations?

 

[BRNout]

This sounds like a bunch of outlets on the way with a 'network' which features nothing worth watching....... :

 

[dave73]

does that mean Universal Sports is going away on non-NBC owned stations?

Yes. With Comcast being majority owner of NBC, they decided that Universal Sports will be a pay channel on satellite & cable. So the non NBC O&O's that carry Universal Sports now will have to find something else to carry in place of US. I don't know if WMAQ-TV will bring back their weather radar, or just reallocate the bandwidth from Universal Sports for the main channel, & maybe some for Nonstop.

 

[ansky212]

Yes. With Comcast being majority owner of NBC, they decided that Universal Sports will be a pay channel on satellite & cable. So the non NBC O&O's that carry Universal Sports now will have to find something else to carry in place of US. I don't know if WMAQ-TV will bring back their weather radar, or just reallocate the bandwidth from Universal Sports for the main channel, & maybe some for Nonstop.

I thought Universal Sports was completely shutting down at the end of the year?

 

[philosofy]

Nope, Universal Sports wants to be paid for carriage instead. So they are yanking it off OTA and trying to sign more deals with MSO's instead. The only company I know that's agreed to anything so far is Directv.

 

[ShawnHill1]

does that mean Universal Sports is going away on non-NBC owned stations?

Yes. With Comcast being majority owner of NBC, they decided that Universal Sports will be a pay channel on satellite & cable. So the non NBC O&O's that carry Universal Sports now will have to find something else to carry in place of US. I don't know if WMAQ-TV will bring back their weather radar, or just reallocate the bandwidth from Universal Sports for the main channel, & maybe some for Nonstop.

I think the NBC O&O will stick with just two subchannels (the main NBC feed and Nonstop) for the foreseeable future.

 

[DToTheJ]

I would be more excited if only "All Night with Joey Reynolds" was still in production (it was broadcast by WNBC-TV for their local Nonstop sub-channel). It would have had a great chance of being broadcast nationally if it were still in production...

I don't know - it's been widely panned, particularly on the New York radio message board (not R-I's). As of this past spring, the show was considered not officially canceled, but on "hiatus" - which might as well mean "canceled".
http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowl...-nonstops-all-night-with-joey-reynolds_b34707

 

[dave73]

does that mean Universal Sports is going away on non-NBC owned stations?

Yes. With Comcast being majority owner of NBC, they decided that Universal Sports will be a pay channel on satellite & cable. So the non NBC O&O's that carry Universal Sports now will have to find something else to carry in place of US. I don't know if WMAQ-TV will bring back their weather radar, or just reallocate the bandwidth from Universal Sports for the main channel, & maybe some for Nonstop.

I think the NBC O&O will stick with just two subchannels (the main NBC feed and Nonstop) for the foreseeable future.

Like many in the Chicago market, we'd like to see a weather radar channel again, since both WMAQ-TV & WLS-TV pulled theirs from their subchannels (WMAQ-TV replacing theirs with Nonstop on 5.2, & WLS-TV pulling theirs on 7.3 for an SD version of Livewell Network on 7.3, which was corporate's decision, & not WLS-TV themselves who pulled Accuweather). It doesn't need a lot of bandwidth (less than 1mbps). It could be possible too that WMAQ-TV might add the main channel to Mobile TV as well, as they have Nonstop on Mobile TV. Stil, it would be nice to see a weather radar channel.