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What would the world be like without Channel 5?
By adamg on Sat, 12/17/2011 - 10:08am
John Carroll points out an interesting notice on the WCVB Web site:
WCVB-TV Channel 5's parent company, Hearst Television, is currently negotiating a renewal of its carriage agreement with various cable operators, including Metrocast, RCN, Shrewsbury Electric and Cable, Beld/Braintree Electric, Norwood Light Broadband, Argent Communications and Southern Vermont Cable.
If negotiations are not successfully concluded before December 31, 2011, you may not be able to view WCVB on your local cable system, but you will be able to receive WCVB over the air and from other cable and satellite providers.
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Comments
Isn't it a "must carry?"
Maybe things have changed since my Intro to Mass Comm class in 199[redacted].
I know the rules are different with satellite.
It's up to the station...
... not the cable operator.
At the Wikipedia Article, the section states (scroll down to "Exceptions"):
Since I have RCN, and I watch precisely two programs on ABC (Castle and Body of Proof), I think they should tell WCVB to go hang. Of course, I don't have a Grey's Anatomy addiction.
Most of the dramas let you watch the most recent episode online.
This was on the Ch.5 "crawl" last nite during great newscast
It isn't just on the website, Ch.5 was running it on the "crawl" at the bottom of the screen during last night's newscasts which happened to feature a great line from a man on the street interview.
When citizens from communities plagued by power failures were asked their reaction to the head of National Grid getting some kind of award from the Boston Chamber of Commerce, most were outraged. Then there was the guy who said, "Well, Barack Obama received the Nobel Prize so most awards aren't what they used to be." Priceless! No idea how that slipped by editors at 6 and 11. Lefty regular anchor "Ego" Ed Harding is off Friday's, otherwise it never would have appeared.
OK, we get it
Everything that happens anywhere ever has something to do with partisan politics. And democrats are bad.
Zzzzzzzz.
Why do you disapprove of the
Why do you disapprove of the president so much? What would John McCain have done better?
I seriously want to know, because I just don't understand people like you. Do you even know the answer?
A la carte
All channels should be a la carte, I'm sick of paying for stuff I don't watch and just take up space on my channel guide.
My fervent wish is that the internet model takes over TV and I can click on any one of 100,000+ channels I want, instead of these cable and satellite cartels/oligopolies.
For one thing, maybe someone would actually do in-depth local news, instead of the vapid stuff at 6 and 11pm. How about the Universal Hub channel or the Southie Channel?
The statement by WCVB-TV
The statement by WCVB-TV offers viewers the option of watching the station over-the-air. Good luck with that. After the analog-to-digital switchover two years ago, ALL of the VHF TV stations in Boston moved to UHF channels, abandoning their historic analog dial positions. Channel 2 is now channel 19; channel 4 is now channel 30; channel 5 is now channel 20; channel 7 is now channel 42. Even the UHFs moved: channel 25 is now channel 31; channel 38 is now channel 39; channel 44 is now channel 43 and channel *56 is now channel 41. (One element of the changeover was the elimination of all channels above 51 for mobile use.) Up the road, it turns out channel 9 in Manchester, NH is still on channel 9 and channel 11 in Durham, NH continues to broadcast on channel 11. So viewers as close as Shrewsbury, and certainement in southern Vermont will have a hell of a time trying to get WCVB.
Really? I get broadcast
Really? I get broadcast television, and I see WGBH on channel 2, and Letterman is still on channel 4 last time I looked. Nothing changed for me.
Your Set Scanned The Available Signals
When you turned on your set for the first time or attached the digital-to-analog box, either one scanned the available signals. The former channel 2 on channel 19 told the scanning software: "hey, we used to be channel 2"; the former channel 4 told the scanning software "hey, we used to be channel 4", etc. But the point of the comment is that full-power digital UHF signals don't travel as far as analog VHF signals did. People in New York City who were using over-the-air reception became apopleptic when the switchover happened because digital UHF signal bounced off office building like billiard balls!
What, the government screwed us?
You mean Congress and the regulators left people with no reasonable alternative to the cable and satellite oligopolies which collude on pricing and programming? I'm shocked.
Less Michelle McPhee would be
Less Michelle McPhee would be s very good thing.
Can you call
Michelle McPhee a journalist?
"Michelle McPhee a
"Michelle McPhee a journalist?"
This from the station that used to field reporters such as Ron Gollobin and Clark Booth?