Re: [Swprograms] Digital radio news

["Rob de Santos" <rdesantos@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ted, it's not that there is anything wrong with services like Me-TV or Antenna
TV per se. I occasionally get some amusement out of watching old shows myself.
It's simply that after nearly 43 months, the station has yet to come up with
**anything** better to put on the sub-channel. 

Moreover, there probably isn't a major market where those services and similar
ones don't dot the sub-channels landscape. Not because they get ratings, they
don't (they don't generate enough viewers that Nielsen will even bother rating
them). They are there because station programmers can't figure out what to put
there that significant numbers will watch. 

For that matter, my cable provider (TWC) stuffs the cable feeds up in the 990's
above the music channels where nobody will find them unless they accidentally go
down from the HD channels. With a few exceptions, such as MHz in Washington, DC
the HD sub-channels are a wasteland. Ask yourself, if they gave any of us on
this thread a channel to program, what could we come up with to put there? I'm
betting 9 out of 10, it's not Me-TV. 

--
-Rob de Santos


-----Original Message-----
From: Swprograms [mailto:swprograms-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ted
S.
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 9:50 PM
To: Shortwave programming discussion
Subject: Re: [Swprograms] Digital radio news

On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 21:16:41 -0500, in shortwave you wrote:

> Two examples of this come to mind. A few months before the digital 
> changeover I had a meeting with an executive at one of the Columbus TV 
> stations. Ostensibly, I was there to talk sports programming and 
> promotion. I asked him: "so what is W***-TV going to do with their 
> sub-channels?" Answer: "We have no idea so we'll probably just 
> temporarily fill it with old shows and news feeds for now." Three and 
> a half years on, "temporarily" is now "permanently" and this is a 
> locally owned and well-run station.

One of my other interests is game shows, and I'm a member of an internet board
dedicated to game shows, both new and old.  There's a substantial percentage of
the membership there that likes the nostalgia TV channels like Me-TV and Antenna
TV.

I also like having a digital sub-channel that cycles through various
weather/radar maps, which I find particularly useful any time there's a
thunderstorm and I don't really want to fire up the computer, or a heavy enough
snow storm that I worry about the satellite internet getting blocked.

--
Ted Schuerzinger
fedya at hughes dot net

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