GoodBye ABC NEWS NOW, Its NO More

[hdtvtechno]

DCRTV.com out of the DC/Baltimore area, today, quoting TV Week:

http://www.dcrtv.com/

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Goodbye ABC News Now - 1/24 - ABC News Now, the network that was created last summer to cover the presidential election, will get yanked off digital TV and cable come 1/29. TV Week reports that ABC wants to "figure out a workable business plan for the service," which will continue to be available on the internet, including the ABC News website. Both local ABC affiliates, WJLA and WMAR, carried the network on a digital subchannel. And local cable TV companies, including Comcast and Cox, carried the channel on their digital tier....

 

[Cyclone]

What is someone from chicago doing reading dcrtv? Just curious?

 

[hdtvtechno]

mmm i was browsing AVS Forum and saw this posted there so i thought to post the news here also.

mmm ok

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I guess that means my local ABC will show the Dopler Radar again. My NBC just started its own Weather View service a few weeks ago its kind of neat.

 

[hdtvtechno]

ABC's decision to pull the plug on broadcasts of digital channel ABC News Now was in part due to the FCC's apparent plan to deny cable carriage rights to stations' extra digital channels.

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA499785?display=Breaking+News

 

[shappyss]

I liked having that channel. Now 7-2 has a message that says WABC Plus will resume programming Monday Jan 31, 2005 at 12AM

 

[DarrellP]

Our ABC engineer actually yanked it since he felt it was affecting the HD channel, now THAT's a pair of balls!