Viewers Find ‘Pirate’ TV Station In Catskills
Pickups by Hearst, Tribune, Media General, Gray and Univision in addition to Tegna mean the true crime diginet is now available 24 of the top 30 markets.
The multicast network has gone off the air in New York City, and it’s believed to be losing other affiliates. Buyers say the network has been struggling since Fox exited the joint venture last year.
WAFB’s Town Hall Meeting Airs Nationwide
Antenna TV, which airs in 130 TV markets across the U.S. reaching nearly 87% of TV households, will air The Addams Family and their macabre misadventures at 5-6 p.m. ET on Saturdays […]
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Comet Diginet Streaks Into Multicast Universe
MGM and its partner, Sinclair Broadcast Group, looked to the stars for the inspiration for its latest multicast network, Comet. Central to the channel’s sci-fi programming is the Stargate franchise comprising three live-action series, one animated series and three Stargate movies. Comet’s execs are pleased that the diginet is “skewing younger than most of these other [classic TV] channels.”
E.W. Scripps and Cox Media are among the five station groups launching the Katz Broadcasting diginets.
Decades Network, the multicast TV network from Weigel Broadcasting and CBS Television Stations, has scheduled a special full-day programming event remembering the historic 1969 moon landing. On Wednesday, July 20 […]
Diginet Tuff TV will officially launch its new distribution feed earlier than previously announced, on Friday, July 15. Tuff TV is no longer distributed by Luken Communications, effective immediately. […]
Five Original ‘Star Trek’ Programs Airing Together
Multicast network Bounce TV will world premiere the second season of its original comedy series In the Cut on Tuesday, July 5, at 9 p.m. ET. As it did with its Saints & Sinners and Mann […]
Diginet Bounce TV announced today that production has started on Ed Gordon, the African-American focused network’s first primetime news magazine, and the show’s premiere date has been scheduled for Tuesday, […]
The expansion comes from multi-year deals for Bounce TV, Escape, Grit and Laff with Nexstar, Mission and White Knight.
Bounce TV will carry Muhammad Ali’s farewell procession through the streets of Louisville, Ky., and his memorial service live, uninterrupted and commercial-free this Friday, June 10. Bounce TV’s coverage will begin at 9 a.m. […]
Tuff TV diginet is relocating in Atlanta to the Georgia Public Broadcasting building, home to GPB Media. Effective June 6, the GPB Media location will house the corporate headquarters of […]
WRTV Drops Local Sports Net For Grit Diginet
Scripps-owned ABC affiliate WRTV Indianapolis (DMA 27) is canceling its Hometown Sports & News (HTSN) network on digital ch. 6.2 and is replacing it with Grit, a multicast network from […]
Bounce TV will celebrate the life of Muhammad Ali with a special presentation of The Greatest, the 1977 motion picture in which Ali stars as himself, on Monday night, June 6 at 10 p.m. […]
Lotus TV-owned KPHE-LD Phoenix (DMA 12) will launch Luken Communications’ Family Channel multicast network later this month on over-the-air ch. 44.5. Ken Kwilosz, Lotus TV’s general manager, said: “Our goal […]
Katz Broadcasting’s Escape multicast network is branching into original programming with a brace of true-crime series and has acquired two other similarly themed programs. The company also has a deal with Nielsen for Escape and its sibling diginet Grit to be rated C3 nationally.
Undefeated super welterweight Kanat Islam is taking on Colombia’s Juan De Angel in the main event of Premier Boxing Champions: The Next Round on Bounce TV and BounceTV.com on Sunday, May 8, from Lakeland Center […]
Social media veteran Calandria Meadows has been named to the newly-created position of vice president, social media and digital content for Katz Broadcasting’s multicast networks Grit, Escape and Laff as […]
Actress Dawn Wells has joined classic TV multicast network MeTV as the network’s first “marketing ambassador.” Famous and beloved for her role as Mary Ann on Gilligan’s Island, Wells now sets […]
Luken In Multi-Network Affiliation Deal With KSAO
Luken Communications today announced a multi-network affiliation agreement with Cocola Broadcasting’s KSAO-LD Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto, Calif. (DMA 20). KSAO today launched Rev’n and Retro TV over-the-air on chs. 49.3 and 49.4, respectively. […]
Decades Network, the multicast TV network from Weigel Broadcasting Co. and CBS Television Stations, is adding The Dick Cavett Show to its weekday lineup beginning Monday, May 2. The talk show first […]
GetTV Unveils New Weekday Lineup
Sony Pictures TV’s classic TV multicast network GetTV has launched an all-new weekday schedule. It includes 14 television series to start, with more to be added throughout the cycle. The new schedule […]
Cocola’s KCBT-LD Adds Retro TV And Rev’n
Cocola Broadcasting’s KCBT-LD Bakersfield, Calif. (DMA 126) has added two Luken Communications’ diginets — Retro TV and Rev’n — to its lineup of multicast programming available on its subchannels. Retro […]
A new documentary from the Decades Network, Operation Greylord, profiles one of the largest undercover stings in FBI history that brought corrupt Chicago law enforcement officers to justice.
The Katz Broadcasting diginet boosts its comedy lineup with Roseanne, That ’70s Show, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Grounded for Life and Cybill in multi-year licensing agreements.
KSBW To Launch Estrella TV On Subchannel
Hearst’s NBC affiliate in Monterey-Salinas, Calif., will debut the Spanish-language diginet from Liberman Broadcasting on ch. 8.3 on April 25.
The black-focused multicast network is debuting its first original drama and has set a March 7-13 window during which its affiliates may carry the first episode on their primary channel.
Killing Spree and Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer will premiere back-to-back on Sunday, March 6, starting at 9 p.m.
Cozi TV Names Antonio Fargas As Its Voice
The new agreement calls for over-the-air and local cable carriage of Sony Pictures TV’s classic TV diginet in 20 markets.
The 24th Annual Trumpet Awards, celebrating and honoring history-making entertainment, humanitarian, political and philanthropic individuals, will have their world premiere on Bounce TV on Friday, Jan. 29 at 9 p.m. […]
Weigel Broadcasting’s Heroes & Icons multicast network will present a pair of TV heroes with the network premiere of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, beginning on Monday, […]
Scripps -owned independent WMYD Detroit (DMA 13) will begin broadcasting Tribune Broadcasting’s diginet Antenna TV on Feb. 1. Antenna TV will be available over the air on ch. 20.2, on […]
LocusPoint Networks’ WMKE-CA Milwaukee (DMA 35) is now broadcasting Luken Communications’ Rev’n multicast network on its ch. 21.1. Ian Milne, GM of station operations for LocusPoint Networks, says: “Rev’n’s programming […]
Now cleared in all top 10 markets, FremantleMedia North America’s retro game show network is available to 60% of U.S. households.
NBC-owned diginet Cozi TV will air special programming all week in memory of the late Eagles legend Glenn Frey, who died Monday. Beginning Tuesday tonight and throughout the week, the […]
