• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

Sony Launches "Get-TV" Diginet This Fall

C

Carmine5

Sony Pictures Television launches the movie channel GetTV in the fall. GetTV will premiere on the Univision Television Group stations' subchannels, and SPT is in discussions with other station groups about picking up it up.

Programming will be primarily from the Sony Pictures library, featuring more than 3,500 films, including the classics Lawrence of Arabia and The Bridge on the River Kwai. They will air in English.

Apparently, entertainment companies see a future in OTA television--more then likely mobile DTV.

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/ar...on_Launches_Entertainment_Digi_Net_GetTV_.php
 
Morgan Wick said:
Univision for an English-language network? Seems like scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Click to expand...

Oh, I don't know about that. They are riding high right now, and any on-air promotions, whether Spanish or English, will be noticed.

cd
 
Morgan Wick said:
Univision for an English-language network? Seems like scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Click to expand...
.
Since saban took over Univision, they have been going more towards a english direction as many younger Latinos either do not speak the language or have little understanding of the language. Besides Univision is pushing to be a big four network, and if they can grab english viewers morer power to them.

I would assume this network is a broker network where sony is buying the airtime as I do not see any mention where Univision is a owner?

How many more subchannel networks can the market take as fox is launching a network next month, there is another network called soul of the south launching, plus the kin tv network that is in some development phase, it seems there are too many networks and not enough bandwidth
 
Morgan Wick said:
Univision for an English-language network? Seems like scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Click to expand...

If memory serves me correct, some of Univision's stations also carry Bounce TV on their subchannels. So this wouldn't be unprecedented.

In effect, unless something changes, this will mean that Sony's films will soon be seen on two diginets: Antenna TV and the new GetTV.
 
Morgan Wick said:
Univision for an English-language network? Seems like scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Click to expand...
What do you think Bounce TV is doing? They're on Univision & TeleFutura affiliates all over the country

That said though, I can see Antenna TV becoming either more like ThisTV when it comes to movies or Cozi TV altogether (If not a combination of the two) while Bounce TV either focuses on films featuring minorities (Both Latinos & blacks alike) regardless of filmmaker or the library it's in or becomes more like BET (Only with an added focus on Latinos as well as Blacks)

As for where GetTV will go here in Denver, it will likely be put on KTFD-DT 14.3 since KCEC 50 has other stuff on its subs & probably doesn't have the room for GetTV

JMO though.....

Cheers & 73 ;D
 
Bounce TV is also on local ABC stations too. We have one on WTXL-DT 27.2 in Tallahassee Florida. We dont have Antenna TV Network.
 
Can we assume this is the absolute final nail in the coffin for the never-launched .2 Network, which had the Sony movie package as its linchpin? The website for that network is 404'ing after six years of 'coming soon' even as every TV and film package they claimed went off to Me, Antenna, This, Movies!, Cozi, etc.

As for the space; in most markets currently an SD version of a UniMas or Univision O&O has been duplicated on the HD channel on .2 in reverse of their sister stations, which is less needed as the analog sets hooked up to converter boxes are disappearing. And I probably wouldn't doubt Get-TV for sure will also feature Spanish SAP audio to keep those viewers happy.

Oddly of course, Telemundo used to be owned by Sony, which had a terrible 'put our Spanish-dubbed Hollywood movies on in primetime and watch the ratings roll in' strategy when they were run by them before NBC bought them; now Univision is airing those films on a subchannel in a weird kind of turnabout.
 
Seems logical for a spanish language network to find a way to get some english language viewers. It'll be the only reason I ever tune to KUVN's signal, that's for sure.

I definitely think you're going to see more interest in OTA subchannels in the next few years. Aside from 'zero' tv households, you're seeing a lot of true "cord-cutters" who do rely on antennas in addition to the internet for their entertainment.
 
tested said:
Aside from 'zero' tv households, you're seeing a lot of true "cord-cutters" who do rely on antennas in addition to the internet for their entertainment.
Click to expand...

I see very little evidence for this. Surveys continue to show the number of households who have no cable or DBS and an antenna to be falling.
 
So what are the chances of Univision taking on new affiliates as a diginet in markets with very small Mexican populations and no Spanish channels on Cable TV? Might work out well for migrant workers using cheap old CRT TVs hooked up to converter boxes and rabbit ears. Might also be a great option for digital sub channels in heavily cabled markets...

Many "cord cutters" are using Internet streaming and watching the major networks in HD OTA, but how many cord cutters care about reruns of "Mr. Ed"? What is the typical demo for diginets or sub-channels that broadcast low bitrate pictures in 4x3 SD?

I don't think there could be too many diginets. Not counting available spectrum on LP and Class A TV stations, the full powers in the Mobile, AL DMA could probably squeeze upwards of 20 more sub channels into the OTA lineup, it's the small markets with few Full Power stations and the top 25 markets that are running out of space without resorting to LPs and Class As. The only diginets that get full market coverage here are Bounce, MeTV, and Country. Cozi and This are on main .1 channels.
 
What would happen to Sony product that Bounce runs? I'm currently watching Sunshine State as we speak which I think is a Sony product.

In the Chicago metro both Bounce and Mundo Fox run on LP DTV. Mundo is on a low VHF station in RF 4( PSIP 13-). Bounce is only on the LP of WMEU at 23-2. Weigel runs The U, UTOO, ME TV, METOO and This on full power 26-1.

Mundo really makes me scratch my head, FOX has 2 full power staions in Chicago, why pick a 500 watt low power DT that most in the area can't pick up. That does not make sence to me
 
PTBoardOp94 said:
I see very little evidence for this. Surveys continue to show the number of households who have no cable or DBS and an antenna to be falling.
Click to expand...

What are the statistics for households having internet connects of some sort and OTA TV (no cable or sat TV)? I'm guessing those are climbing.
 
I don't see the "younger" population being interested in either Lawrence of Arabia or the fiction of The Bridge on the River Kwai. If this is the type and relative age of Sony's movie offerings I don't see a big audience.
 
mrschimpf said:
Can we assume this is the absolute final nail in the coffin for the never-launched .2 Network, which had the Sony movie package as its linchpin? The website for that network is 404'ing after six years of 'coming soon' even as every TV and film package they claimed went off to Me, Antenna, This, Movies!, Cozi, etc.
Click to expand...

That could have been said as well when Tribune launched Antenna TV two years ago with Sony's films and TV shows. .2 also had rights to NBCUniversal and Disney content, NBCUniversal's TV shows are now shared between Me-TV and Antenna TV, though only Me carries films from the Universal library (only as part of their Svengoolie B-movie showcase). Even though The Walt Disney Company owns a digital subchannel network, Live Well (which doesn't carry any scripted and doubtfully any unscripted content produced by the Mouse House), Disney's film and television library is nowhere to be found on any of the diginets, or the Warner Bros. film and TV library for that matter (Warner seems to be the only holdout in providing program content for the diginets).
 
Going back to Nashville said:
In the Chicago metro both Bounce and Mundo Fox run on LP DTV. Mundo is on a low VHF station in RF 4( PSIP 13-). Bounce is only on the LP of WMEU at 23-2. Weigel runs The U, UTOO, ME TV, METOO and This on full power 26-1.

Mundo really makes me scratch my head, FOX has 2 full power staions in Chicago, why pick a 500 watt low power DT that most in the area can't pick up. That does not make sence to me
Click to expand...

The only way I can explain it, is FOX has a lot of power with WPWR and WFLD. They only really care about cable and other forms of non-OTA delivery. So FOX simply says, you want WPWR and WFLD, you carry Mundo Fox. This way they get cable coverage and they don't have to worry about bitrate.
 
My comment was intended to indicate that apparently there weren't any other options other than resorting to Univision. Of course, a lot of those diginets are just wasting space with space-filling old reruns and movies...
Louis_009 said:
Bounce TV is also on local ABC stations too. We have one on WTXL-DT 27.2 in Tallahassee Florida. We dont have Antenna TV Network.
Click to expand...
WTXL is owned by something called Calkin Media.
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom