The three-month-old multicast network has been picked up by stations owned by Hearst, Raycom, Cox, Newport, Media General, Capitol Broadcasting, Bahakel, Gray, Quincy, New Age Media, MPS Media, London Broadcasting, Bonten and Titan.
Me-TV Says Clearances Surpass 45%
After just three months of trying, multicast channel Me-TV has cleared more than 45% on TV homes, partners Weigel Broadcasting and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios announced today.
Affiliates of the classic TV service include Hearst Television, Raycom Media, Cox Media Group, Newport Television, Media General, Capitol Broadcasting, Bahakel Communications, Gray Television, Quincy Newspapers, New Age Media, MPS Media, London Broadcasting Group, Bonten Media Group and Titan Broadcast Management.
“We are grateful to the FCC for their creation and advocacy of digital broadcasting,” said John Bryan, president, domestic television distribution, MGM, in a prepared statement.
“Our affiliates understand the value of their digital spectrum and with Me-TV offer a great new programming service to their millions of over-the-air television viewers.”
Me-TV (Memorable Entertainment Television) was developed by Weigel’s WWME Chicago, where a local version has been airing for several years.
Me-TV’s library includes series from Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution and CBS Television Distribution as well as independent series owners and producers.
BRAND CONNECTIONS
Among the programs: M*A*S*H, Perry Mason, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Bob Newhart Show, Star Trek and Hawaii Five-O.
Me-TV is the second multicast offering from Weigel and MGM. Earlier, they teamed on ThisTV, which is built around movies from the MGM library.
Comments (8)
Lady Success says:
April 4, 2011 at 12:56 pm
Please…someone in Indy pick this channel up! And RTV, too! (Thought RTV might have trouble in Indy…WRTV, the ABC station here, brands itself as “RTV6”.)
Anthony Everett says:
April 4, 2011 at 1:38 pm
So i have a local network that is Gray and carries MyNetworkTV. Are they going to drop that and replace with ME-TV? or is ME-TV going to be an extra sub-channel in these types of markets?
Karen Zubert says:
April 4, 2011 at 2:24 pm
Perhaps they will mix it in with the non-MyNetworkTV content on their MNTV affiliates like some of their stations do with ThisTV.
Mike Sothard says:
April 4, 2011 at 3:20 pm
Me-TV is a subchannel. So, if your station is airing programming on their “dot2” or “dot3” channel, this is where that programming airs.
Anthony Everett says:
April 4, 2011 at 4:03 pm
I saw they did this in other affiliate areas. That would actually be a killer combination (in my eyes) for a decent programming built off library and syndicated content.
Karen Zubert says:
April 4, 2011 at 4:05 pm
In some markets, Gray has both MyNetwork and CW subchannels on their stations. They have also mixed in ThisTV content to their MyNetwork subchannels. I doubt they would do this to CW since they are pre-programmed by the network (as CW 100+). Adding a third subchannel to these stations may be too detrimental to the picture quality of the main HD channel, so mixing in content may be the way to go unless one or the other networks is dropped.
Robert Klein says:
April 4, 2011 at 3:51 pm
Looks like KDOC 56 in Anaheim/Los Angeles is in line to carry the channel. Now if only RetroTV was on a real station in this market, we’d have the classic TV trifecta (Antenna TV, MeTV, and RetroTV). Retro’s current station, KFLA-LD is a low power station barely anyone in this market can receive.
mike tomasino says:
April 4, 2011 at 4:18 pm
McGraw Hill’s KMGH (Denver’s 7) is currently running 4 channels using variable bit rates. One 720p (ABC) and three 480i channels. So far the picture quality seems to be doing alright. On the other hand Gray’s Colorado Springs CBS affilate KKTV has horrible picture quality on it’s MyKKTV subchannel.