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« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2012, 09:49:29 AM » |
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I was trying to interpret that article yesterday. So the game plan is to buy the station and sell the frequency at a profit and that's IT?
I saw they let people on Orcas go ... always a sign to me that bean counters are running the show when they decide the people who keep you ON THE AIR are "useless meat"!!
So sad.
Seems people who run the stations nowdays would be ecstatic if they could figure out how to just send invoices for advertisements that never run on a station that never broadcasts. Selling & producing the ads, assembling content, and powering the transmitter are all useless expenses.
Or they can adopt the KMCQ model which is basically "do nothing" and just run ads when the phone rings from the occasional listener or national "sweep the market" buys.
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« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2012, 12:30:36 PM » |
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Will it affect it's MeTV affiliation? And will another Seattle station have to scramble to get MeTV on it's subchannel?
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« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2012, 01:30:00 PM » |
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Will it affect it's MeTV affiliation? And will another Seattle station have to scramble to get MeTV on it's subchannel?
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« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2012, 01:45:45 PM » |
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Wow. And I love their programming. Lost in Space, Outer Limits, WWWest..
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« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2012, 03:04:36 PM » |
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...and don't forget TheCoolTV (12.2).....It needs to land somewhere too......
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« Reply #6 on: March 09, 2012, 06:01:07 PM » |
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It really is nice to see shows like Mary Tyler Moore Show, Dick Van Dyke, All in the Family, and other of what I consider the "top tier" of "classic TV" shows carried by My-TV. The new schedule on Comcast ch 116 of infomercials and retreads from other rerun channels, instead of Universal Sports, is the last thing we need.
It was a real pleasure to see a few episodes of "Here Come The Brides" on My-TV, for a little Seattle fantasy viewing from my formative years. (I'm not sure if it still airs on Sunday mornings.) Nice to see how many of these shows appear to have either been digitally restored, or else My TV is running some of the best-preserved film copies out there of these shows.
Years ago, say, when the Mary Tyler Moore show ran as a rerun on independent local TV stations, the film had gotten go scratchy, the color was faded, and the sound was muffled. Made you sad to see how copies of the show hadn't been handled well over the years -- and to realize that if only a couple of decades could decay a reel of film like that, then are the years doing to us??!!
Since KVOS has finally landed a spot of Seattle Comcast in the past year (apparently a bit too late for KVOS, however), and is also included on the cable systems in Vancouver and Victoria BC, and all cities in between, you'd think it could be worth something for such a reach. But their commercial load of Vancouver-based advertisers seems to have dried up. I suspect it's for lack of a sales force.
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« Reply #7 on: March 09, 2012, 09:56:06 PM » |
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I do know my dad has taken to watching MASH every night at 7 on that station. I haven't looked at the article, does it say when they are supposed to go off the air? I just looked and it looks like they will stay with the current programming, but the local news has been dropped.
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« Reply #8 on: March 09, 2012, 11:08:44 PM » |
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When I lived in the Vancouver area as a teen in the 80's KVOS was probably the one channel I watched the most, next the CKEK from Victoria.
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« Reply #9 on: March 10, 2012, 12:29:59 PM » |
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As much as I hate to praise ClearChannel for much of anything, I thought that they years they owned the station brought it some of it's better branding and positioning, aiming it at Vancouver and getting it better syndicated programming (and would assume the ad dollars the came with it). After CC sold it, that seemed to me the beginning of the downhill slide....
Although MeTV is awesome (it's pretty much how TV Land used to before Viacom screwed it up, along with every other cable channel abandoning their "core programming" to go after a wide audience), it's just another digital network that would usually be on a sub channel--but just happens to be the primary. It was clear that by sticking MeTV as their primary affiliation, the post-CC owners were just biding their time for the right offer to come along, and picking up a few local bucks from the Casino and Dentists/Attorneys of Bellingham to keep their losses to a minimum.
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