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Tango Traffic Gets Inq-ed

DToTheJ

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The Philadelphia Inquirer's Michael Klein has written an extensive article about the new Tango Traffic channel (WPHL 17.4) which launched a month ago:
http://www.philly.com/philly/entert...affic_channel_on_TV_here_finding_viewers.html

(Warning: You may need to close a large banner promoting the upcoming circus in order to start reading the article... Gotta love the newspaper business... doing whatever it can to survive after falling on hard times!)
 
Tango Traffic - Who Cares?

Who cares? In another post, somebody asked why all the conversation here about obscure AM stations? Well, here is an even more obscure sub-channel, not carried on cable, satellite or fiber optic. An unmet need? Klein should spend less time getting free meals at restaurants and do some homework. Traffic maps and data are available online from Shadow/Metro, Traffic Pulse, Google Maps, Mapquest and a bunch of other sites. They are also available through GPS devices, smart phones and tablets.

@Diamond Joe: You spend so much time looking for obscure and trivial non-items to post, maybe you should get an ad blocker for your browser.
 
Factually speaking, it is on fiber optic and cable. :D
 
Re: Tango Traffic - Who Cares?

MattParker said:
Who cares? In another post, somebody asked why all the conversation here about obscure AM stations? Well, here is an even more obscure sub-channel, not carried on cable, satellite or fiber optic. An unmet need? Klein should spend less time getting free meals at restaurants and do some homework. Traffic maps and data are available online from Shadow/Metro, Traffic Pulse, Google Maps, Mapquest and a bunch of other sites. They are also available through GPS devices, smart phones and tablets.

@Diamond Joe: You spend so much time looking for obscure and trivial non-items to post, maybe you should get an ad blocker for your browser.
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Comcast Xfinity is carrying it and Verizon FiOS is supposed to add it soon.
 
Bill_W said:
MattParker said:
Verizon FIOS carries neither Tango nor Antenna TV.
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FiOS is supposed to add Tango.
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So what? Traffic on a TV sub-channel is even more useless than traffic on the radio - and even more out of date by the time you leave the house and actually try to get some where.

Tango is a waste of bandwidth. How about when are they going to add 69.3: McHale's Navy, The Adventures of Robin Hood. Daniel Boone, Wagon Train, Peter Gunn, I Spy, The Rockford Files, Dragnet, Hitchock, Run For Your Life, It Takes A Thief.........? They are supposed to have added Antenna TV (17.2), too but it's not there.
 
Speaking of out of date. :) I'm sure that will bring in oodles of viewers. :)
 
Comast should add 69's sides just like they do 39. I would enjoy those old sitcoms...Antenna is ok and so is This, but it would be nice to see McHales Navy and all the other shows RTV has...would love to see Combat again...
 
Antenna TV was there on Comcast 17-2 for a couple of days and now is gone. THIS Philadelphia is now coming in on 17-3 (my TV displays it as 17-3 rather than 17.3).
I'd like to see them re-add Antenna TV again on 17-2, and 69-3 would be great also.
 
This was originally on 17.2. January 1st, WPHL moved This to 17.3 when Antenna started on 17.2. Comcast and Fios kept showing This but the on-screen program guide gave info for Antenna.
 
Re: Tango Traffic - Who Cares?

MattParker said:
Traffic maps and data are available online from Shadow/Metro, Traffic Pulse, Google Maps, Mapquest and a bunch of other sites. They are also available through GPS devices, smart phones and tablets.
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So are sports scores and weather. Do you hate those channels as well?
 
A better question--why hate anything? It does no harm, and if the market isn't there, things will take care of themselves. Isn't the entrepreneurial spirit what helped build our country? Sometimes the risks pan out, sometimes not, but successes were created by someone with a vision. And in the meantime, jobs are being provided...and that's a bad thing, how?
 
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