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Tried To Contact TV Land

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R.D.P.

About their current programming and was going to express my disgust for it. Was unable to do it. However, the wife of the late James Arness is now trying to get Gunsmoke back on TV Land. Visit this link if you want to help bring it back. I did contact his wife and told her how much my family loved that show. Hope she can bring it back to TV Land.

http://jamesarness.com/

For the boneheads that didn't renew the contract to put them back, shame of them. That show was one of my all time favorites to watch and enjoy. It was better than the stuff they call entertainment now.

Concerning that link, I found it while surfing around the TV Land site.

While visiting the site, I also noticed that many people were not too happy with TV Land dropping Gunsmoke.

Like me, they want to see it return to that network again.
 
I've posted comments on their message board (and that's been several years ago), but figure anything else is useless. Occasionally I've seen replies from a moderator basically defending TV Land, but nothing changes.

Most TV networks could care less about viewer opinions. All they care about is ad dollars.
 
encore western has both gunsmoke and the half hour earlier version marshal dillon.best part is they are comercial free.i assume that means nothing edited from the shows.
 
ME-TV only shows the color 1 hour episodes though. When TV Land aired them, they were heavily edited and time compressed which ME-TV doesn't do.
 
I know this may sound like a broken record but the color episodes of Gunsmoke are on ME-TV. The B & W hour episodes, as well as the half hour (Marshal Dillon) are on Encore.
A few years ago I tried to work out a promotion with a radio station with TV Land and they were downright rude. A real chip on their shoulder. The people who run TV Land are just arrogant. All people that like classic TV can hope for is the growth of ME-TV and Antenna. Forget about TV Land.
 
For me two issues are occurring.

Number 1: We can't afford to subscribe to Encore Westerns to see the show.  Direct TV is already charging us up the ying yang to see their so called mix of programming.
Number 2: The Montgomery area doesn't have ME-TV.  Heard that WAKA was going to put them on 8.4 in March of this year.  Still waiting to see if that pans out.

Unless some program, that we don't have to pay extra to see were to snag the show and/or someone in my area picks up ME-TV, I'll have to learn to live without it.

So sad indeed :(

R.D.P. <><
 
anotherguy said:
Most TV networks could care less about viewer opinions. All they care about is ad dollars.
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And those dollars come from.....viewers tuning in. Shockingly, those opinions count too, perhaps more than a few people whining on a message board.
 
Gunsmoke could be carried on TV Land, but after a few months six minutes of the show will be cut out for commercials!

-crainbebo
 
R.D.P. said:
For me two issues are occurring.

Number 1: We can't afford to subscribe to Encore Westerns to see the show. Direct TV is already charging us up the ying yang to see their so called mix of programming.
Number 2: The Montgomery area doesn't have ME-TV. Heard that WAKA was going to put them on 8.4 in March of this year. Still waiting to see if that pans out.

Unless some program, that we don't have to pay extra to see were to snag the show and/or someone in my area picks up ME-TV, I'll have to learn to live without it.

So sad indeed :(

R.D.P. <><
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On the MeTV website it says March so I think its a done deal. You can set Montgomery as your location. Too bad it isnt sooner..... :(
 
Thanks for the response. 

I contacted WAKA again to be sure.

Will let you know what happens, when they respond to my letter.

Wish TV Land would go back to their roots and stop trying to air blocks of mostly modern programs.

Will watch ME-TV, once my area gets it.

It'll be a breath of fresh air indeed.

R.D.P. <><
 
I hope you'll be able to get ME-TV on a full subchannel and not just as filler on another channel, like is happening in Jackson, TN. We're only getting about 4 hours a day, and not at the best times. :-\
 
crainbebo said:
Gunsmoke could be carried on TV Land, but after a few months six minutes of the show will be cut out for commercials!
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Or, if "Andy Griffith" has any indication, half the episode would be scissored so they can squeeze in even more commercials.
 
ME TV has lots of westerns. both the color and B/W episodes of Gunsmoke. They also have 'The Rifleman" "Bonanza" Big Valley" "Branded" and others. Antenna TV also has some westerns. I wouldn't waste my money on TVLand. A plain old outside antenna is the way to go. some cities have "bounce" which is geared to blacks, has quite a few movies on it plus Fat Albert and Soul Train. This TV has a lot of western movies. and also has Bat Masterson reruns. TV Land is dead as far as I'm concerned. I refuse to watch it. In case your interested. someone has uploaded most of the B/W and some color episodes of Gunsmoke to Youtube. Just look up the name of the episode and you should find it. Its broken up in 10 min. segments. Most are 360 or 480p resolution witch isn't bad at all
 
While I hate to admit it, because it has caused several channels that I love to go to crap too, TV Land is not a hobby network, it's part of a large corporation. What I mean is, it's a multi million dollar network, both what it costs to run, and what it generates in revenue.

Being a revenue generator like that, these decisions aren't just made on the fly. They've done countless hours of research and test marketing, and have decided that they can make more with new shows than they can with older shows. And in the end, it's all about money. It's the same thing that took the "M" out of MTV (twice), and it's the same thing that has lead to many cable networks changing.

Cable TV started off as a niche, and they needed reasons to get people to pay for TV. Now that most people do, it's not surprising to see the networks slowly changing into the lowest common denominator, to appeal to the demos that sell the most advertising, etc.

So, what are we left to do? Get the show on DVD, or go to Netflix and watch it instantly over there. If all you do is watch episodic content on Cable, you're really better off going that way anyways. Because, you can watch it with no commercials, and if you buy it on DVD you own it forever. As much as I pay for cable ($100 per month) I could go buy 3-5 seasons on DVD per month. Before long, I'd have pretty much everything I want to watch that isn't available over the air. The downside is that I would have to wait a year after the season starts to get it, but the upside to that is I get to watch every episode when I want to, and not have to wait weeks to finish a storyline.
 
If enough people pulled their money OUT of cable TV, they might have to improve the product enough that people would start watching it again. I haven't had cable in years, and quite frankly, I don't miss it.
 
firepoint525 said:
If enough people pulled their money OUT of cable TV, they might have to improve the product enough that people would start watching it again. I haven't had cable in years, and quite frankly, I don't miss it.
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This or per channel pricing. But, honestly, what that will do is just force them to find a lower common denominator to cater to, or die off. It HAS to make money, so it MUST find an audience to cater to. If we all cancel, then there will be no audience and the networks will change focus or die off.
 
i did one year without cable tv.i did not go back because i missed the programing.i got tired of trying for that year to get consistant decent reception on over the air digital tv.

when they changed tv from analog to digital they probally did cable tv and satalite tv a big benefit.
 
Does your area offer a limited basic cable package? I have that with Comcast in New Britain, CT. I pay about $21 a month after taxes. I run two TVs on this floor, neither of which use a cable converter. Through the respective QAM tuner in each TV, I get TBS, QVC and The Weather Channel in HD. I get the locals in HD. I also get NECN (New England Cable News), the Connecticut Sports Network (formerly CT-SN) and the so-called P.E.G. channels (public, educational and government access). I get many of the local subchannels, such as Bounce TV as 8-2 and TheCool TV as 59-2, etc.

Like you and others, I refuse to upgrade my cable service because 1- it's too expensive and 2- I am NOT going to pay ESPN nearly $5 a month for a channel I almost never watched to begin with.

The reason I keep this package? Simple. The reception of the local channels. Anything from Rattlesnake Mountain in Farmington, CT will be nice and strong (CW, PBS, NBC and FOX). Madmere Mountain in Hamden is so (ABC [using VHF channel 10] and MY). Montville is usually OK (ION) while Avon Mountain on the Avon/West Hartford town line is partially blocked (CBS and UNI).
 
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