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WXIA Digital 2 (NBC Plus) is airing Educational programming on Sat AM

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tlyle

Just tuned to WXIA (11Alive) Digital 2 to check out Weather Plus to see if ATL will get snow and look at live radar. They are playing educational programming. I believe this is to fulfill the FCC rule to offer so many hours of educational programming a week. I wonder though if 11 alive will start to program this with other shows like WSB Digital 2 did with the Retro Network.
 
The FCC requires at least three hours a week of
educational programming. Last time I looked,
11-1 (the "regular" NBC affiliate) was doing so by
carrying all of NBC's Saturday morning programming.
Does the rule apply to subchannels as well, or is this
strictly a mangement decision?
 
As I heard, it's an FCC requirement that each subchannel must carry 3 hours of E/I each week, though the hours could be transferred to other subchannels or the main channel.
 
tlyle said:
Just tuned to WXIA (11Alive) Digital 2 to check out Weather Plus to see if ATL will get snow and look at live radar. They are playing educational programming. I believe this is to fulfill the FCC rule to offer so many hours of educational programming a week. I wonder though if 11 alive will start to program this with other shows like WSB Digital 2 did with the Retro Network.
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I think this is temporary until they can do something...given the state of Gannett and the industry currently, they may not be in a hurry.

One option...go HD (or not) with 11-2 and air news replays and live breaking news events. Air the news from sister WMAZ/Macon.

They could affiliate with This TV or .2 Network. This needs an Atlanta affiliate. WAFF/Huntsville and many other Raycom stations did this. Like RTN, it is sat fed (albeit with one national feed AFAIK) and 100% barter. Although this probably would go to WATL instead, as subnets tend to go to the lesser half of duopolies.

This programming...what was it? Was it a simulcast of 11-1 (which does not count...subchannel KidVid programming must be seperate) or something else.
 
Per the FCC, each sub must air the mandatory three hours per week of E/I programming. 13WMAZ Macon continuously airs its live Doppler radar and a voice tracked forecast from one of their meteorologists on 13.3. However, each day at noon, a repeat of "The Magic Club", an in-house produced kids program from the early part of this decade, airs on this sub. The magician in the program, Mike Fuller, later attended and graduated from meteorology school and is now on air during the weekend newscasts.
 
The FCC mandate for the subchannels is not quite enforced yet, but Gannett wanted to be proactive on this and air children's programming. TFN, they still have the rights to WX+, but no other plans have been mentioned for future programming for 11.2... yet.
 
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