I have heard of a low-powered translator broadcasting "Your Jukebox" on channel 15 in Rochester, back a number of years ago. Is this still around, and how long did it exist?
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"Your Jukebox"
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Bob1370
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> I have heard of a low-powered translator broadcasting "Your
> Jukebox" on channel 15 in Rochester, back a number of years
> ago. Is this still around, and how long did it exist?
Sadly, it's no longer around.
It began around 1990 as W15AL, a low power TV station carrying the Juke Box Network out of Miami. The business plan for that network was to have viewers call a 900 number and request a video from a list of a couple hundred current and recurrent rock, pop and hip-hop videos that would cycle regularly on the screen until someone called in with a request. It cost about a couple bucks a play. The network in most smaller markets was carried on cable, but in the top 50 or 60 markets they depended on LPTV for carriage.
Late in the 90s Juke Box Network started selling video plays to the record companies for promotional purposes as their main source of income, de-emphasized the viewer call-ins, and got more carriage on cable companies in larger markets as they expanded their channel roster. Finally, Viacom bought out Jukebox Netwoek and used it as the basis for the foundation of their MTV-2 channel, scrapping the call-in requests totally except for simulcasts of Total Request Live, and programming it more like a conventional younger-skewing verison of MTV.
The local owners of W15AL never sold their transmitter (or the one they owned in Syracuse) to Viacom. They had to retune it to channel 36 a few years ago when WXXI's high power DTV transmitter on Channel 16 started clobbering it on its old frequency. And about a year ago, they severed all ties with Viacom and started selling all their time to a national home shopping channel, leaving Rochester and Syracuse viewers without MTV-2 except as an extra cost digital-tier cable option.
> Jukebox" on channel 15 in Rochester, back a number of years
> ago. Is this still around, and how long did it exist?
Sadly, it's no longer around.
It began around 1990 as W15AL, a low power TV station carrying the Juke Box Network out of Miami. The business plan for that network was to have viewers call a 900 number and request a video from a list of a couple hundred current and recurrent rock, pop and hip-hop videos that would cycle regularly on the screen until someone called in with a request. It cost about a couple bucks a play. The network in most smaller markets was carried on cable, but in the top 50 or 60 markets they depended on LPTV for carriage.
Late in the 90s Juke Box Network started selling video plays to the record companies for promotional purposes as their main source of income, de-emphasized the viewer call-ins, and got more carriage on cable companies in larger markets as they expanded their channel roster. Finally, Viacom bought out Jukebox Netwoek and used it as the basis for the foundation of their MTV-2 channel, scrapping the call-in requests totally except for simulcasts of Total Request Live, and programming it more like a conventional younger-skewing verison of MTV.
The local owners of W15AL never sold their transmitter (or the one they owned in Syracuse) to Viacom. They had to retune it to channel 36 a few years ago when WXXI's high power DTV transmitter on Channel 16 started clobbering it on its old frequency. And about a year ago, they severed all ties with Viacom and started selling all their time to a national home shopping channel, leaving Rochester and Syracuse viewers without MTV-2 except as an extra cost digital-tier cable option.
> The local owners of W15AL never sold their transmitter (or
> the one they owned in Syracuse) to Viacom. They had to
> retune it to channel 36 a few years ago when WXXI's high
> power DTV transmitter on Channel 16 started clobbering it on
> its old frequency. And about a year ago, they severed all
> ties with Viacom and started selling all their time to a
> national home shopping channel, leaving Rochester and
> Syracuse viewers without MTV-2 except as an extra cost
> digital-tier cable option.
Actually, MTV2 is alive on WOBX-LP 35 in Syracuse. WNDR-LP is currently off the air pending a move from Channel 18 to 49.
> the one they owned in Syracuse) to Viacom. They had to
> retune it to channel 36 a few years ago when WXXI's high
> power DTV transmitter on Channel 16 started clobbering it on
> its old frequency. And about a year ago, they severed all
> ties with Viacom and started selling all their time to a
> national home shopping channel, leaving Rochester and
> Syracuse viewers without MTV-2 except as an extra cost
> digital-tier cable option.
Actually, MTV2 is alive on WOBX-LP 35 in Syracuse. WNDR-LP is currently off the air pending a move from Channel 18 to 49.
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Bob1370
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> Actually, MTV2 is alive on WOBX-LP 35 in Syracuse. WNDR-LP
> is currently off the air pending a move from Channel 18 to
> 49.
>
Too bad they didn't choose to keep it alive in Rochester.
> is currently off the air pending a move from Channel 18 to
> 49.
>
Too bad they didn't choose to keep it alive in Rochester.
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