Another TV network vintage shows Antenna TV
 

Just heard about another TV network, similar to RTV and THIStv
http://www.antennatv.tv/affiliates/ to see if a station in your town has it.

Chicago has something called MEtv, channel 26, http://www.metvchicago.com/?page=faq

That station just came on in Hampton Roads, VA. They have great shows. I hope it sticks around. I like their slogan, "Vintage TV without the funny smell". I guess they mean the smell of hot tubes and wax paper capacitors.

I've been practically glued to this channel and have the following observations:

• Nice mix of classic shows
• Many interesting movies of various eras (30's up to the 90's)
• Too many commercials, and too many repeats of the same commercials (typical of all these sort of franchise stations)
• During a commercial break they've been showing excessively long samples of the various shows as a teaser of their programming. I suppose these will go away after an initial introductory period. I guess they're better than airing another commercial but they take away from air time of the show too.
• They're already rerunning their programs AND movies. Not a good start, they HAVE to get MANY more episodes in rotation and do so quickly otherwise people will tire of this and switch off.

That is one of the things I am afraid of is that they will have a very narrow playlist of episodes and viewers will lose interest. I hope this station stays on long enough for me to get my Zenith roundie fixed and watch some of the 1960s shows on it.

We don't have that channel, yet. And, we probably won't get it anytime soon unless comcast cable picks it up. Since the local FOX affiliate pulled the plug on RTV, all we have is "gutter trash" programming.

As much as I liked RTV, they didn't have a very big variety of shows in my area and it would have been nice had they rotated more shows, instead of showing the same series for 2+ years at a time. I agree that it's not a good sign if this new network is already re-running certain movies and shows. One thing I can't stand are these cable and satellite networks that play the same movie, over and over, for a month.

As far as there being too many commercials, I'd have to agree. And, I have not even seen this network. Actually, there are TOO MANY COMMERCIALS on all networks. That's the reason I turned off the "dukes of hazzard", after seeing one too many 7 minute commercial breaks, on CMT.

For now, I think my best option for older shows is to obtain them on DVD.

I detest commercials,not only are they moronic and obnoxious,and selling crap I have absolutely no interest in,but they hack the shows down to nothing to fit them in.

I also don't like the old shows having scenes deleted because they are "politically incorrect" such as with Sanford & Son episodes like "Fred Sanford,Legal Eagle" which contains his hilarious "Tarzan movie" remark in court,or "the piano movers" (don't even waste your time watching that one in syndication) as well many others.

For an example of what's been cut from Sanford & son go to google or YouTube and type in "fred on black crime"




DVDs are definetly the best way to go.

I love Antennatv, and Thistv, we get them both OTA from nyc. I have been regularly been watching Good Times, Maud and All in the Family, Sanford and son. Its just like prime time from the 70's all over again! ! ! and I love it. The thing I like the best, is that these channels are free of Toyota, Verizon, Ford, Honda, and every other over played commercial on the big networks. One additional thing I have been wondering is, what if these channels do a really good job and make a really good line up and the numbers look better on these channels than on the networks regular offerings? Not like thats hard to do.... Thistv, and Antennatv are now on our channel 11 which is. or was WB, with I think 3 vampire shows, 90210, some slutty cheerleader 90210ish thing, and a pretty good local news. Also they run the very cool Jerry Springer, and the Maury show. DNA was invented for Maury! ! Well also as a life long over the air viewer, never had cable or satellite, so I really really love the new sub channels! And from what I read Thistv has seen its viewer share increase to levels that the company is happy with! I think this viewer reception of its classic programing OTA is part of what helped launch Antennatv, and I hope to see more of this! ! ! ! Makes me feel better about my gigantic antenna and multiple booster amp array. OTA FOREVER ! ! OTA FOREVER ! ! OTA FOREVER ! ! OTA FOREVER ! ! OTA FOREVER ! ! OTA FOREVER ! ! OTA FOREVER ! ! OTA FOREVER ! ! OTA FOREVER ! ! OTA FOREVER ! ! OTA FOREVER ! ! OTA FOREVER ! ! OTA FOREVER ! ! OTA FOREVER ! ! OTA FOREVER ! ! Also in one of those things I read online about thistv viewership was a comment about CBS not splitting its channel up into subs. Some commented on them not owning enough content (I don't believe this) and others said they are waiting it out to launch something after a trend is identified. ABC here has something called Live Well Network which I assume is an abc cable channel, its pretty nice and my wife watches it a lot. You know we already get 2 to 3 times the number of channels as with the old analog lineup, OTA could possibly give cable a run for its money, and as designed, the sub channels may give local stations the ability to make additional money..... Our FOX channel for a while had a partnership with WWOR an independent channel that has local news, lots of syndicated shows.(about 3 months as soon as they turned off analog) They broke off the partnership which use to have FOX 5.1 and 5.2 use to be WWOR 4:3. WWOR 9.1 and fox5 on 9.2 4:3 mode. Now its FOX on 5.1HD and FOX5.2, 4:3 same arrangement for WWOR 9. I think they are confused about how to handle their sub channels, but look committed to having subs. Dam did I forget to break this up into paragraphs............

And there's this thread about it.

http://www.videokarma.org/showthread.php?t=249560

John

We've got it in san diego both on cable and DTV. Yet another reason to keep my sets running! I don't care for the commercials - but I can live with it.

I LIKE the "funny smell!"