New network coming to Equity soon??

[Mr Tony]

Got bored this morning so I googled "lat tv" which is what one of the channels on G10 logs as (yet shows retro jams most of the time). Found out this is a new network based in Houston and it looks like come end of May, some of the Equity stations are moving or adding this "new" network

After checking the map and a couple other sources, looks like this will be added as a digital subchannel on a few Equity stations
KWBF (currently My 42)
KCBU (currently RTN 3)
KEYU (currently Univision..this is one of the two stations that is in AC-3 audio)
KTVC (currently RTN)
KDEV (currently RTN)
KEGS (this looks like it will change to the new station from RTN)
KUOK (currently Univision)

so it looks like in most cases, we won't see any changes except that the station on 11800 labelled "lat tv" might actually become that soon

Here is some info
lat tv website
http://www.lattv-english.com/index.asp

wiki shows the stations that are changing soon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAT_TV

map of stations is attached (they don't show the digital subchannels)

 

[iafirebuff]

Interesting find! Gotta love Equity! They keeps things interesting

 

[grusome]

Looks like they are taking over a lot of the UniVision , Spanish language channels.
Nice for folks that can speak Spanish. But, really not a lot of difference. Just a new owner for the stations.
grusome

 

[Mr Tony]

grusome

These aren't Univision in most cases. These look like smaller (right now) Independent stations.

 

[Mr Tony]

Interesting find! Gotta love Equity! They keeps things interesting

when I first saw the map I thought we were losing RTN in some areas but it looks like most will be digital subchannels

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Good I dont want to lose my RTN!

RTN is like TV was when I was a kid.... GOOD!

 

[Mr Tony]

looks like Equity is going to be the "main" helper in expanding that network.

 

[RVD420]

any station that plays RetroJams is good to me.

I wish The Tube was still on KU.

Just another reason for a BUD.

 

[Mr Tony]

Only drawback of The Tube is AC-3 audio

 

[grusome]

grusome

These aren't Univision in most cases. These look like smaller (right now) Independent stations.

My bad. Looks like only a couple of them are UniVision stations.
grusome

 

[iafirebuff]

I LOVED TV Land when it first came out. So when I learned about RTN I was sold on an FTA system

 

[mikew]

I thought you were talking about this.

http://www.latv.com/coverage.asp

Coming to several "larger" markets on digital sub-channels on 4/26 (Including here in Tucson and Las Vegas)

 

[Mr Tony]

nope. I remember LATV when they showed XPW wrestling in los Angeles on KJLA

This is a new network (LAT TV)

 

[icstephen]

I read an article a week or so ago in one of my broadcasting websites (can't remember which one) but it said LATtv was a spanish lanquage provider, so if they do anything it will most likely be in spanish (unfortunatly for those of us that don't speak spanish). I thought about posting the article but was being lazy and didnt.

here's the link...I found it
http://phoenix.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2007/04/23/story5.html?page=2&b=1177300800^1449796