WNBC 4.4 Is Now...

[IngramMess]

Something called "Universal Sports", pretty much a 24-hour "Wide World Of Sports" kind of thing with all sorts of international events. It's interesting, but between you and me, I liked the cycle of Local shows that 4.4 aired. Thoughts?

 

[ansky212]

That won't be for long. There is another thread here about a 24-hour news channel coming to 4.4 in the fall.

 

[cawasinnj]

It looks permanent.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iRLfPe-CWOuRS-q_sFhlHIktyBrgD91BCGS00


Maybe the new news thing will be yet another subchannel?

 

[IngramMess]

Maybe the new news thing will be yet another subchannel?

Let's see, 4.1 = 4 New York, 4.2 = Weather Plus, 4.4 = Universal Sports...Well, let's keep an eye on 4.3 (If it exists yet) and see what happens.

 

[tripinva]

Ick. Three subchannels + 1080i on the main feed... WNBC-DT will look like crap. What a shame.

Here's hoping they move at least one of the services to WNJU-DT once it moves back to ESB.

- Trip

 

[cawasinnj]

The smart thing to do in a case like that would be to dump the least useful service when an HD show is on and reallocate the bits.

(Insert "smart thing" joke here.)

 

[tripinva]

As more and more shows become HD, eventually you'll never have the "least useful service" turned on. As it is, there's network programming, local news, NBC Nightly News, and Today all in HD. That mainly leaves the syndicated programming, which outside of reruns will be going HD over the next few years.

- Trip

The smart thing to do in a case like that would be to dump the least useful service when an HD show is on and reallocate the bits.

(Insert "smart thing" joke here.)