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TNN is Back! 4.2 Now Flagship for Nashville Morning Radio Show Rick 'n' Bubba??!

onetake said:
TNN's original name, The Nashville Network, brought with it an immediate perception of what the network was, and based on ratings it's strength ended up mostly in the SE with many cable systems never giving it a shot.
I hope this rebirth comes with success but am not clear if WSMV and other local stations that pick it up, will be selling it aggressively. The whole "digitial revolution" the FCC came up with has turned into lifeless hype.
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We're certainly trying; IMHO it's getting a lot more attention than the Telemundo operation did. (unfortunately, as I think Telemundo could have been successful. But you can sell & program TNN with the existing staff.) I'm not psychic so won't speculate on how well it will work in the long run!
 
onetake said:
The whole "digitial revolution" the FCC came up with has turned into lifeless hype.
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Maybe I'm the target market for lifeless hype.

Last Spring, we dropped Comcast's TV service in favor of retaining their Internet, hooking up an OTA antenna, and plugging in Apple TV. We haven't regretted it a moment since. We either watch TV now when it's live, or if we miss something we really wanted to see, we'll catch it on Hulu Plus, cbs.com, or as a last resort, on iTunes. Titans games can always be found broadcast locally, CBS will still have most of the NCAA basketball tourney, plenty of movies on Netflix, great classic TV choices, including some more recent series we didn't watch when first aired, and even some great exclusives like the month-long iTunes Festival concert series.

Now the HD over the air is noticeably superior to what Comcast compresses and sends through the cable. And we have even enjoyed some of the lifeless hype on the sidechannels. We like being able to go straight to 2.2 at any time for local weather, will occasionally pick up something on 5+, have found myself tuning in to Rick and Bubba a few times each week for a few minutes before heading out, and have enjoyed a few minutes here and there of old TNN programming. Plus, there are plenty of remodeling, cooking, travel, and lifestyle programs that are every bit as bad as the ones we used to pay for on cable! (and I still catch the wife stopping on them just about as much when she's flipping channels).

There are some better digital networks out there, and I expect to see some of them showing up in Nashville soon. I remember watching Nickelodeon in its infancy, on which, each night at 6:30, they'd read old DC comic books while focusing the camera on one panel at a time while the word balloons were being read. Digital sidechannels will be growing just like Nick did, especially since more and more people are shutting down cable TV to do pretty much the same thing we did.
 
NOTE TO JETFLI: I mispoke. When I said "digital revolution" I meant to say "DTV revolution." Your comments reflect where more and more people are..watching cable channels. A few years ago local tv everywhere was hyping the DTV revolution with their extra channels like 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, etc. Viewers were promised as part of "serving the public interest" with more interesting programming appealing to a lot of people who didn't want to pay for cable. Years later we have a lot of wx radar, channels like Bounce, This tv, old reruns, and just filler that really isn't proving to be ratings or a revenue stream for the local side. Many of us hoped local tv might do news all day to boost their news image, but that must not be a real opportunity because many local tv stations are now telling people to get their updates from the station's facebook page.

the subchannels of DTV have not been even been promoted much. I should have caught that typo.

Happy new year.
 
onetake said:
NOTE TO JETFLI: I mispoke. When I said "digital revolution" I meant to say "DTV revolution." Your comments reflect where more and more people are..watching cable channels. A few years ago local tv everywhere was hyping the DTV revolution with their extra channels like 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, etc. Viewers were promised as part of "serving the public interest" with more interesting programming appealing to a lot of people who didn't want to pay for cable. Years later we have a lot of wx radar, channels like Bounce, This tv, old reruns, and just filler that really isn't proving to be ratings or a revenue stream for the local side. Many of us hoped local tv might do news all day to boost their news image, but that must not be a real opportunity because many local tv stations are now telling people to get their updates from the station's facebook page.

the subchannels of DTV have not been even been promoted much. I should have caught that typo.

Happy new year.
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We tend to use "digital" in conversation a lot to refer to DTV, I knew exactly what you meant. Didn't think of your use of the term as a typo at all.

The subchannels of DTV won't get a lot of promotion for the foreseeable future, as in some ways, they are competition to the main channel. Right now, they remind me of the early days of cable, full of music videos (like what first made MTV popular), old TV shows (like what first made the original Nick at Night popular), and small budget programming (like what made cooking, home, style, and travel networks popular). Some of these subchannels and DTV networks will have a better chance of growing when more people have actually pulled the plug on their cable, and they will begin trying more original programs just like the cable networks did. In addition, if/when more people do start pulling the cable plug, more cable companies might also set up DTV subchannel networks and offer programming to both delivery vehicles.

But like you, I would have hoped there could have been more local programming. NewsChannel5 Plus carries one hour of live original news programming M-F, other live programming is limited to talk, call-in, and interview programming. I do like the fact that WSMV weather forecasts are seen on 4.2. I do like that WSMV has begun airing a tape-delayed rerun of its 6:00 p.m. news at 9:00 on 4.2, but it really annoys me that they don't edit the rebroadcast and so between 9:30 and 10:00 you are still hearing references to "new at 6:30." Even if they just didn't refer to 6:30 during the 6:30 half-hour so the rebroadcast wouldn't have those time markers, that would be an improvement, as it also bugs me to hear references to "new at 6:30" when it's 6:45 as well.

It would also help if local stations would run more subchannel programming that is complementary to their main programming, and less that is an alternative to their main programming.
 
Well, this has gotta sting!!!
TNN's distributor (Luken Communications) has filed for bankruptcy after an Arkansas jury awarded a $47.4 million verdict against Luken for fraudulent transfer of the ownership of the Retro TV Network.

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/jun/26/luken-communications-files-bankruptcy-after-arkans/

Jim Owens Productions is listed as a creditor in the bankruptcy case and is owed $431,156.25 by Luken (which is based in Chattanooga).

I'm sure this will eventually have an impact on both TNN's and WRTN's programming and presence. :(
 
Looks like TNN isn't back anymore. The network has now been rebranded as "Heartland." That didn't take long, did it?
 
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