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Mr Tony

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Last reply Feb 1, 2016 · posted in Over the Air Television By RabbitEars.Info

ABC moving its affiliation in Tri-Cities TN/VA TV market

Damn....
http://abc19.tv/abc-moves-its-affiliation-in-tri-cities-tnva-tv-market/

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WKPT) – George DeVault, President of Holston Valley Broadcasting, announced today that the ABC Television Network affiliation for the Tri-Cities market is being moved from WKPT-TV.1 in Kingsport to WJHL.2 in Johnson City. The change becomes effective February 1.

According to DeVault, "ABC presented to us a proposal that would have had us paying the network at least 15 million dollars over the next 5 years. Although we ultimately agreed to meet the network's terms, ABC told us a few days ago that it had decided to explore other options in the market. WKPT-TV had been negotiating in good faith with ABC since October of last year," DeVault said.

"Media General, which owns WJHL, operates in almost 50 markets and owns or effectively controls more than 70 stations. If it threatens to pull its network affiliate signals in every market where both it and the cable or satellite carrier operate, it has immensely more bargaining power than one independently-owned, family-owned station like WKPT-TV operating only in market number 97. That is why small operators like us are disappearing or being bought up by big group owners, and that is why networks like ABC prefer to be affiliated with the powerful group owners," DeVault said.

WKPT-TV will become an independent TV station, not affiliated with a major network, effective February 1. "To stay in the TV business will be a "tough financial challenge," DeVault said. " Many among our present staff will lose their jobs. Most notably we will be going out of the local TV News business."

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localclassictvfan

Jan 11, 2016

MeTV looks to move to the 11-3 spot soon...When the ABC launches on the .2 all this means is that the Me will move to the .3, I know you all know this already. Its the same case scenario when KLAF went to NBC last year and the MNTV went one notch over. Well all said, I got something right again. Whohoo for Bryan, LOL

Mr Tony

Jan 11, 2016

localclassictvfan said:
MeTV looks to move to the 11-3 spot soon...When the ABC launches on the .2 all this means is that the Me will move to the .3,

originally they *(WJHL) said MeTV was going to be "phased out" so I guess they changed their minds

mvcg66b3r

Jan 11, 2016

Iceberg said:
originally they *(WJHL) said MeTV was going to be "phased out" so I guess they changed their minds

Maybe WJHL had to honor their contract with MeTV.

Mr Tony

Jan 11, 2016

contracts can be broken. Maybe they realized more people would watch MeTV than their "static" weather channel

DWS44

Jan 11, 2016

Brings back memories...lived in Johnson City for a little over 10 years before I moved to Charlotte. So how does that end up with one station having two network affiliates...Will there be a WJHL CBS and a WJHL ABC? I'm sure this has happened elsewhere, just never really thought about it.

Mr Tony

Jan 11, 2016

DWS44 said:
. So how does that end up with one station having two network affiliates...Will there be a WJHL CBS and a WJHL ABC? I'm sure this has happened elsewhere, just never really thought about it.

This is happening more recently where one station has 2 different network affiliations. In smaller markets this is very common. Depending on the situation they may just simulcast the local news on both stations (that is how its done in Fargo, ND where KVLY has NBC -1 and CBS -2. They just ID as "Valley News Live") or they may do a totally different newscast opposite the CBS local news. I know in Mankato, MN (the market next to me) they are a 1 station market (CBS main, FOX sub) and FOX has a news at 9 with a different anchor than what CBS has for their 6 & 10:00 news.

Mr Tony

Feb 1, 2016

Well the changes happened....and it looks like a few affiliated moved

ABC moved from 19-1 to 11-2 (sub on CBS)
My Network moved form 36-1/19-2 to 19-1 (36 is low powered station....it was simulcast on 19-2)
MeTV moved from 11-2 to 36-1/19-2 (so it looks like they traded ABC for MeTV)

WJHL 11
11-1 CBS HD
11-2 ABC HD

WKPT 19
19-1 My
19-2 Me (also on 36-1)
19-3 Cozi
19-4 Heartland (also on 36-2)

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9 minutes ago · posted in Marques Brownlee

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Susan Saint James, Emmy-Winning Star of 'Kate & Allie' and 'McMillan & Wife,' Dies at 80

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Last reply 42 minutes ago · posted in The Chit Chat Club

Song Name Game Part 3!

Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!

So let the game continue!

The last song was added by Bobby who posted...

One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters

CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!

Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game

Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.

Example:

Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow

Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio

Another example:

Ride the Lightning -- Metallica

Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne

Get it?

An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....

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Strange Days - Nazareth

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Dancing Days - Led Zeppelin

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Dancing in the Street - Van Halen

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Bakers Street - Gerry Rafferty

Bobby

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long_time_Dish said:
Bakers Street - Gerry Rafferty

Let me fix that for you:
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JSheridan

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Last reply 47 minutes ago · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

All DMA's now Western Arc

I know HipKat said that they were working on conversions but we got the official news yesterday right from Dish that starting next month all DMA's will be on the western arc, and all customers will be assigned to that. That's gonna mean a lot of customers around here aren't gonna get Dish unless there are exceptions. Too many mountains and trees.

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Strega

Friday at 10:01 PM

Even if you are broadcasting old SD-only shows, I would think advertisers would still want their commercials to look good.

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Jimbo

Friday at 11:17 PM

Strega said:
Even if you are broadcasting old SD-only shows, I would think advertisers would still want their commercials to look good.

Advertisers on SD channels are probably Far and Few, very hard to find, they have very few viewers to watch them.

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Mister B

Saturday at 7:35 AM

Jimbo said:
Advertisers on SD channels are probably Far and Few, very hard to find, they have very few viewers to watch them.

I watch mostly SD channels (H&I, Start and ION, etc.). There are plenty of advertisers, this time of the year it is mostly Medicare Advantage plans, auto extended warranties and the occasional walk-in-tub. They know who is watching.

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slow_poke_pete

Yesterday at 10:40 AM

Mister B said:
I watch mostly SD channels (H&I, Start and ION, etc.). There are plenty of advertisers, this time of the year it is mostly Medicare Advantage plans, auto extended warranties and the occasional walk-in-tub. They know who is watching.

can't forget the little blue m&m's

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charlesrshell

Yesterday at 11:23 AM

slow_poke_pete said:
can't forget the little blue m&m's

That's what my wife calls my Viagra!!

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telstar_1

Yesterday at 8:12 PM

Why didn't Charlie end up launching starlink

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Foxbat

Yesterday at 9:01 PM

telstar_1 said:
Why didn't Charlie end up launching starlink

Because he didn't have a fleet of reusable rockets. Starlink works because SpaceX is able to launch hundreds (thousands?) of their Starlink satellites for what a single geostationary Internet satellite costs to build and launch on a disposable launcher.

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telstar_1

Today at 12:08 AM

But how is it reusable if it's disposable

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slow_poke_pete

Today at 2:09 AM

charlesrshell said:
That's what my wife calls my Viagra!!

My gf is 29 years younger than me :shh

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Almighty1

47 minutes ago

telstar_1 said:
Why didn't Charlie end up launching starlink

He does not have the resources aka $$$ compared to Elon Musk as in reality, Elon can eat Charlie for lunch or even mop the floor with Charlie if he wanted to.

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osu1991

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Last reply 49 minutes ago · posted in Movie Talk

Dune (2020)

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long_time_Dish

Jun 4, 2024

Also watched part 2 about a week or so ago after rewatching part 1. It's not as faithful to the book as I was hoping for. Part 1 stayed fairly faithful to the novel, but part 2 took some liberties that I felt were rather excessively non-novel. It looks like a prequel series will happen before part 3. My issue is: there's no prequel that was written as a novel, so what will it be pulled from? Or will it just be "based loosely" on the novel?

klang

Jun 4, 2024

long_time_DNC said:
Also watched part 2 about a week or so ago after rewatching part 1. It's not as faithful to the book as I was hoping for. Part 1 stayed fairly faithful to the novel, but part 2 took some liberties that I felt were rather excessively non-novel. It looks like a prequel series will happen before part 3. My issue is: there's no prequel that was written as a novel, so what will it be pulled from? Or will it just be "based loosely" on the novel?

There is a bunch of other Dune written by Kevin J Anderson and Brian Herbert (Franks son). I think the series in production is taken from one of their books about the Bene Gesserit.

long_time_Dish

Jun 4, 2024

klang said:
There is a bunch of other Dune written by Kevin J Anderson and Brian Herbert (Franks son). I think the series in production is taken from one of their books about the Bene Gesserit.

Correct. I've read all of them (yes, it took awhile, better part of a year, in my spare time). And they can't really consider or classify a series about the Bene Gesserit as a prequel. Sure, I suppose they can call it that, if they want to, because it begins before the time of Paul Atredies, but it's still a stretch. It's a Dune-related novel, not a prequel as we generally think of prequels...

klang

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Today at 3:41 PM

Big finish coming:

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long_time_Dish

49 minutes ago

Well, it looks good! I just hope they stayed close to the trilogy, but it doesn't look like it.

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