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WHY ARE RTV, THIS-TV, ETC. ONLY ON CERTAIN CABLE SYSTEMS?

gregg75

gregg75

RTV is on some local cable systems but not most, why is that? Does the cable company have
discretion as to add or not add them? Is there some kind of local agreement between the
cable company and the local station to carry their subs?

People are watching them. I think if I had a cable system I WOULD WANT to add them if
nothing more than as a service to subscribers.

Do you think the FCC should require them to be carried on all local cable systems (if they
are subs in that cable market)?
 
gregg75 said:
Do you think the FCC should require them to be carried on all local cable systems (if they
are subs in that cable market)?
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Nope. What's special about RTV that the government should "require" it to be carried?

The carriage status depends on the station providing the RTV feed. Here, it's on two low-power stations that have limited cable carriage in parts of the market, but that carriage pre-dates the RTV affiliation. Another RTV affiliate in the southern part of this market is in the same boat.
 
Charter in Jackson, TN dioes a good job of carrying the subchannels of local stations in the area, (even when they aren't that great) and carries This TV from WMC in Memphis. I'm hoping that once Antenna TV starts up that Charter will carry it from WREG in Memphis.
 
This TV is on digital cable here as a result of the carriage agreement with Raycom's WUAB/43 (it's on 43.2). All of the local TV subchannels get digital carriage on Time Warner, in the 300s range, except the newly minted part-time "Ernest Angley And Other Stuff" subchannel on WBNX/55.2...

As noted, the RTV affiliates here are stand-alone LPTVs, which have negotiated their own limited carriage agreements. 29/35 are still not on the larger end of the Time Warner system based on Cleveland (ex-Adelphia), though are on some other TWC systems (Akron, Macedonia/Hudson, Kent).
 
WMC in Memphis is owned by Raycom as well, which might explain why Charter is carrying This TV if they made a similar deal with WMC.
 
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