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Yet another 'RTV loses more affiliates thread' (This time, Young Broadcasting)

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nathannah

New Young Broadcasting (which is basically a division of Grey Television because of their bankruptcy) just signed up for the Live Well Network, which will launch at the end of the month on their station's DT2 or DT3 subchannels. Left unsaid in the article is that a few of those stations were already RTV affiliates, and I just confirmed with my local Young station that LWN is replacing RTV on their DT3 subchannel (to my relief; I don't want to lose my favorite automated weather channel to LWN). Highly likely it's the same with the rest.

With this, they've lost two major groups in the last month, Citadel and New Young. The only major broadcasting group they have left now with this is Allbritton, with the few Cox stations they still have running out the string on their contracts until they can jump to Me-TV (in Seattle, it's only still on KIRO because Me is on the full-power KVOS and Antenna's on a Tribune-owned station), and one Barrington station. How much longer can it be before RTV has to admit that their business model is failing to attract anyone except low-wattage owners any longer and adjusting their model to be more America One-like?
 
As bad as it may be I'd still rather see RTV than Live Well. Although about all I ever watch
on RTV is Ozzie or The Rifleman.
 
Hemorrhaging affiliates is bad enough, but when your network gets denied by a station group that's coming off of a bankruptcy, that's really bad.
 
gregg75 said:
As bad as it may be I'd still rather see RTV than Live Well. Although about all I ever watch
on RTV is Ozzie or The Rifleman.
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I don't understand the business model of LWN either - it's more of a copy of the ION Life subchannel. Looking at their number of Facebook friends compared to those of Me-TV or Antenna TV (or even TheCoolTV or The Country Network), they are not very high. Our best local traffic/weather information subchannel was swapped for LWN, and I deleted it from my TV's.

Now, trying to convince another local station to carry Antenna TV (they have the worst automated weather channel in town, which inconveniently airs "E/I" children's programming on late Sunday afternoons) has been tougher. Personally, I don't think the Phoenix market needs more than one weather subchannel, and that's been taken care of by the local NBC station for the past six-seven years.
 
We have had the Live Well network in NYC for several years already and I have not watched it once. There is tons of repetition of programming. I just don't see the appeal of that network. It's the same type of lifestyle programming that you can find on 10 other networks.
 
Here in Pittsburgh both are on low-powered WBGN. And believe it or not both
are far superior to anything WBGN programs on it's main channel (with the possible
exception of the locally produced "It's Alive!" horror movie show)
 
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