Thread: MeTV Broadcast Partners Deal

http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/2...tners-set-deal

MeTV becomes more like RTV and PB&J.

Antenna TV also airs Mr. Magoo and Gumby on Totally Tuned In segments.

Sweet

He-Man and She-Ra are on Qubo every night (late night)...Ion mux on both C-Band and OTA

Woa..... This is cool.. I think..

I hope MeTV can remain FTA throughout all these changes though...

MeTV is one of the very best channels of all time..

I just would hate to see them go off of FTA and even more scary, I would hate to see them go the way of TVland which is total BS now.


The other scary thing, I see MeTV taking up more and more of the same exact shows that air on RTV & PBJ.

I added to TitanTV ALL the Luken channels that scan in on 87, both 3800 & 4080 which is like about 80 channels.
One week I'll look at Titan and it lists the affiliates as showing Luken programs. Then next week I'll browse through, trying to find maybe an Alfred Hitchcock or Off Beat Cinema that's playing off the national schedule and I'll see that affiliates that last week were displaying Luken stuff in the guide have switched to MeTV all of a sudden. It seems to happen pretty often. So I'll tune to the channel and I'll see that it's gone from showing programs to displaying a graphic that says something like "This channel available, call Luken @ bla bla bla." I can't grab an example at the moment, it's raining really hard and it appears to have knocked out ALL of the Luken stuff on 87. The Luken S2 content is soooo touchy and sensitive to pretty much anything messing it up..

Anyway, what I'm getting at is that it looks like MeTV is killing Luken, big times. I would hate to lose the option. Especially PBJ. I love the old Harvey Toons which I grew up with. I haven't seen those since I was little and that was a loooong time ago...

I wish Luken would clean up their signal. I don't see the use or point of them carrying 80+ affiliate signals on 87w, that can't be inexpensive. They should drop all that nonsense and go back to providing a NICE quality picture, like they did in the beginning and try to bag some better, new and unique content. All those Canadian crime shows from the 80's?? Seriously??

Originally Posted by Dee_Ann

I wish Luken would clean up their signal. I don't see the use or point of them carrying 80+ affiliate signals on 87w, that can't be inexpensive.

They pay by the transponder so if they put one station on there or 40 they pay the same. It goes by the bandwidth

Originally when RTV started (before MeTV went nationwide and Antenna TV started) RTV had lots of customized stations because in some markets the shows they had were already being shown on different stations. An example I remember was Little House. In Green Bay, WI RTV was added but they couldnt show Little House because the Fox station there already had the rights (kinda like Lucy Show) so it was customized and at one point most of those stations did show different programming.

But then the rights got lost for RTV for some shows and so they are now cookie cutter in alot of markets except for the ID at the top of the hour.

try to bag some better, new and unique content.

I agree

Dee, Harvey Toons are now on Angel 2 (Dish Network) everynight. Angel 2 might be FTA, but I don't know for sure.

Forgive me, I'm going to rearrange your message a little bit to bring similar thoughts together.

Originally Posted by Dee_Ann

The other scary thing, I see MeTV taking up more and more of the same exact shows that air on RTV & PBJ.

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Anyway, what I'm getting at is that it looks like MeTV is killing Luken, big times. I would hate to lose the option. Especially PBJ. I love the old Harvey Toons which I grew up with. I haven't seen those since I was little and that was a loooong time ago...

Nah, not killing. I wouldn't have taken this job if I was worried about the future of Luken Communications.

I can't grab an example at the moment, it's raining really hard and it appears to have knocked out ALL of the Luken stuff on 87. The Luken S2 content is soooo touchy and sensitive to pretty much anything messing it up..

I wish Luken would clean up their signal.

Luken requires its affiliates to utilize a 3.8 meter dish to receive its C-band feeds. The Ku feed is supposed to be a backup but I can name three affiliates, off the top of my head, that are using it as their only source.

I don't see the use or point of them carrying 80+ affiliate signals on 87w, that can't be inexpensive. They should drop all that nonsense and go back to providing a NICE quality picture, like they did in the beginning and try to bag some better, new and unique content. All those Canadian crime shows from the 80's?? Seriously??

One service Luken offers is the ability to provide a feed direct to the affiliate with local spots included. Fewer and fewer stations need the service as master control equipment gets upgraded with the ability to handle multiple streams, though we are still finding stations that do not have such equipment and so our service interests them. As a result, you'll observe that some of the feeds are getting moved around and consolidated. And you're right, it's not inexpensive. To help with that expense, DVB-S2 and MPEG-4 and other things are designed to make optimal use of the bandwidth available in the transponder given the expense involved, but as you've observed, they make reception more challenging for viewers and affiliates. When you do the numbers though, to spend the money on larger dishes or slightly more expensive receivers quickly pays for itself versus the cost of additional transponder(s).

- Trip

Originally Posted by PopcornNMore

Angel 2 might be FTA, but I don't know for sure.

sadly its not