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RTN coming to WMYT Rock Hill-Charlotte!

Is it going to replace their SD feed of MyNet on 55-2 or replace "The Word Network" on 55-3?

- Trip
 
I'm wondering why Capitol Broadcasting doesn't put RTN on co-owned WJZY-DT which has no sub-channels currently operating. Wordnet claims their WMYT-DT-3 will be on Time Warner Digital channel 257 "soon." I would guess RTN will be on WMYT-DT-4--hopefully they will also be on TW digital. I'm looking forward to RTN, especially since TV Land is no longer retro.
 
Capitol is smarter than to do yet another subchannel. When it came to Capitol's WRAZ in Raleigh, they replaced an SD simulcast on 50-2 with RTN.

They're probably putting it on WMYT because MyNet has almost zero HD programming. CW does lots of HD programming, and in 1080i at that. MyNet does almost none at 720p.

I imagine Equity would sell RTN long before they let it go under. There's got to be money in it.

- Trip
 
Maybe you misunderstood me...

Right now, they do this:

55-1 My-HD
55-2 My-SD
55-3 Word

I think when all is said and done, it will look like this:

55-1 My-HD
55-2 RTN
55-3 Word

Sound reasonable?

- Trip
 
I don't know, I'd think they would try to retain the SD subchannel for SD OTA viewers and cable systems that recieve the channel OTA. I notice every other Charlotte station has a SD subchannel.
 
Who friggin' cares?

It's a placeholder taking up space on a DT subchannel.

RTN also airs on a DT subchannel of WPXI-11 in Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh papers mentioned that at the bottom of a bigger story -- when WPXI was moving to new studios.
 
I wish this network would come to Philadelphia, maybe as a replacement for WPHL's former "The Tube Music Network" subchannel that is currently showing nothing. Is it showing a lot of the shows that were on Nick at Nite in the 90's?
 
I was under the impression that 17-2 in Philly was airing all sports from WCSN. Is that not so?

And thanks for the kind words about my site! =)

- Trip
 
That used to be 17-3. PHL still lost a channel. Tribune should do it, for WPIX, WPHL and all their stations. Sinclair's WBFF does Good TV, which I'm sure makes revenue necessary to support itself and more. In Philadelphia, there is a number of stations inlcuding smaller stations like WMCN-DT where it or one created locally, can go.
 
Increasing multicasting like that begins to take its toll on the quality of the HD feed. Honestly, as far as I'm concerned, stations doing 1080i (CBS, NBC, CW) shouldn't do more than one subchannel aside from the primary, and those doing 720p (ABC, Fox, MyNet) shouldn't do more than two. Ideally those numbers would be zero and one, respectively, but I know that's not going to happen. Each station has only a finite number of bits, and the qualty starts to get really bad as you try to compress things more and more.

That said, MyNet does so little HD that I believe some stations may choose to make MyNet SD and do some other service with the rest of their bandwidth.

- Trip
 
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