Ovation TV Gets 'Jools': Better Later than Never

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For those of you like me that miss this from RAVE HD, looks like we'll get it soon. I'll sure miss the pristine HD, hopefully the sound quality is just as good... :up

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Ovation TV Gets 'Jools': Better Later than Never - 2009-05-12 21:54:42 | Multichannel News

Ovation TV Gets 'Jools': Better Later than Never

Holland's U.K. Music Program Makes Its Way to Independent Network
by Kent Gibbons -- Multichannel News, 5/12/2009 3:54:42 PM MT

Ovation TV programming and production senior vice president Kris Slava is a big fan of U.K. music program Later ... With Jools Holland.

"I've lusted after it for years," Slava (pictured) told Through the Wire recently. "Michelle [Zajic], our head of acquisitions, was stalking it."

Kris_Slava_Ovation_TVIt finally became available and arts-focused Ovation signed a deal with BBC Worldwide to secure U.S. premieres of the show's next 27 episodes- - three "series" in British-TV terms. It launches Labor Day weekend with a marathon, then settles into a Thursday night slot on Sept. 10.

The show has been seen on these shores before: BBC America aired it, as did Rave HD, part of Cablevision System's satellite-delivered HD programming service Voom. Only a week ago, Cablevision's Fuse network said it was adding library shows to its lineup this summer.

Slava said Cablevision-owned Fuse is using Rave's expiring license, after which Ovation will capture those shows (which he thought his network would get already).

Ovation will start with Jools's 33rd series (again in Brit terms), including guests Metallica, Pink Floyd guitarist Dave Gilmour, The Killers, My Morning Jacket and Carla Bruni, who also happens to be the wife of French president Nicolas Sarkozy.
 
Well it's nice to see Ovation picking up more modern music, but what the HELL happened to their promise to incorporate content from IMF when they bought it for the sole purpose of forcing their way onto Dish (since they apparently couldn't stand on their own merits)?
 
I've seen old repeats of "Jools" on Ovation. However, Ovation on Dish is worse than upscaled SD. It's like watching blown up YouTube.
 
The SD quality of Ovation is pretty bad. I must say that I love Later . . . as one of my most favorite TV shows on the old Rave HD, and I loved it in HD, but I don't think I can stomach it in SD. I still have several HD Live . . . shows on my external HDD from Rave still yet to watch.
 

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