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Post by tardiscaptain on Aug 3, 2011 19:44:15 GMT -6
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Aug 3, 2011 21:28:13 GMT -6
We've been talking about that for years. They're already on Comcast, DirecTV and Dish. It makes sense to go after that OTA segment in the big market. They did recently make a deal with KSL to get weather coverage so that could be an opening, but there isn't enough room in Ch 5's datastream to add a channel without removing something. I think NBC really wants Universal Sports there and that gets beaten up a bit as it is. Replacing 5.3 weather with KCSG would squeeze the bits and that might be more than the engineers want. I'm a little surprised there aren't a few more bits given to 5.2.
The station with the most idle bandwidth is KJZZ 14. I found a website that had a breakdown of exactly what was being used on each channel in every market in the country but I can't find it now. Anybody know what site that is? I'm not aware of anything else that 14 is using their stream for and I'm not even sure they're running HD.
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Post by kenglish on Aug 6, 2011 9:36:19 GMT -6
The Azteca LD's have plenty of extra bandwidth (on 25 and 39)....Wish they'd get their PSIP fixed, though.
KPNZ (24) has plenty of extra, too.
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Post by kenglish on Aug 6, 2011 9:50:59 GMT -6
Their website also mentions that they will carry KSL Newscasts at 7 and 9 PM, starting Monday. I wonder how that will work...nobody has told us about it yet!
I guess they could record the 6 off the air,and play it back at 7. But, can they record the 10 off-air, and play it back an hour earlier??
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Aug 6, 2011 23:23:56 GMT -6
I would guess that neither of the companies that own 25/39 or 24 would be interested much in English language programming. Their focus is on Spanish programming. Something interesting I see though is that on the KSVN website, they ID the TV station only as 39. That's K39JS not KSVN. I wonder if they will end up selling 25 since it's a complete duplicate of 39 in every respect. That could be an opening.
I wonder if KCSG will be rerunning the 6 at 7 and the 6:30 at 9 or something like that. What's the breakdown of story material on each half hour? Is there a different focus during the second half hour? If the stories there are more evergreen-types it might work ok to rerun it several hours later.
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Post by cachefreetv on Sept 22, 2011 5:21:19 GMT -6
I have heard that NBC Universal Sports was going to pay TV and all NBC-US affiliates will need to find something else for their subchannels once their contracts expire.
So, since KSL 5 needs a subchannel, and KCSC already has a relationship with KSL - there's a match.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Oct 2, 2011 22:02:26 GMT -6
The information about Universal Sports leaving seems confirmed. Scott Fybush is reporting (http://www.fybush.com/NERW/2011/111003/nerw.html) that it's going away at the end of the year. That makes sense. Comcast owns it now and they're a cable company, and this is probably tied in with the rebranding of Versus as NBC Sports Network on Jan 2. He also says that MeTV is making a lot of progress around the country at the expense of RTV. What, if anything, will land at 5.2?
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