Fox O&Os Game For Latest Diginet: Buzzr TV
The new multicast network from FremantleMedia North America and Debmar-Mercury will feature iconic game shows. It’s set for a summer launch.
Justice Network Debuts With John Walsh
The new multicast network launches today with the former America’s Most Wanted host as on-air spokesman and part owner. Gannett stations are among those on board, covering 40% of U.S. households. The lineup will include a range of criminal justice programming, with viewer involvement solicited.
Movies! Network Adds Six New Affiliates
The classic movie multicast network is now cleared in 55% of the U.S.
The comedy-driven broadcast television network will debut on April 15 on ABC Owned Television Stations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Houston, Raleigh, N.C., and Fresno, Calif., as well as Scripps stations in 13 markets. The ABC O&Os will also continue to air the Live Well Network.
Live Well Network, the digital subchannel carried by ABC O&Os, won’t be signing off today after all. ABC Owned Television Stations Group announced last June that it would cease operation of the network at the end of this week. But the company now says it will continue to air reruns of Live Well programming for at least the next two months on its eight owned stations, which launched the network in 2009.
The one-hour Through the Decades premieres in May 2015 on the new Weigel-CBS Television station multicast network.
Exclusives
Digital subchannels and a seemingly insatiable appetite for vintage television series are igniting an explosion of nostalgic programming that goes well beyond M*A*S*H and I Love Lucy.
WDJT Replacing TouchVision With Decades
Minds Gate Communications launched Luken Communications’ new diginet Rev’n on Jan.1 on its KPHE-LD Phoenix (DMA 11). Phoenix area viewers can now find Rev’n over-the-air on ch. 44.3, in addition […]
Luken Communications-owned diginet Retro TV has added A1A TV’s WQXT Jacksonville, Fla. (DMA 48) to its station lineup. WQXT began broadcasting Retro TV on Jan. 9. Viewers in St. Augustine […]
Luken Communications Heartland diginet has added a new affiliate: WBQC-LD Cincinnati (DMA 36). Heartland airs over-the-air on ch. 25.5 and on Cincinnati Bell Fioptics ch. 293. WBQC, owned and operated by […]
WBIN To Launch Classic TV Subchannel
The Boston independent is launching WBIN Classics, comprising Antenna TV programming as well as local productions.
More movie entertainment choices are coming soon to viewers in Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville-Anderson, S.C. (DMA 37) with the addition of diginet Movies! Network. Hearst-owned NBC affiliate WYFF will debut Movies! Carolina on […]
The multicast network bolsters its lineup with Roc and The Parent ’Hood from Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, A Different World from Carsey-Werner and The Hughleys from Twentieth Television. They will form a new programming block starting Mon., Jan. 5.
The Gazette Co.-owned ABC affiliate KCRG Cedar Rapids, Iowa (DMA 90), is launching the classic TV diginet Antenna TV on Jan. 19, 2015, on its ch. 9.3 subchannel. It will […]
TeleXitos features TV series from the 1970’s on, including Miami Vice, The A-Team and Ripley’s Believe It or Not, as well as action flicks like Hulk, The Interpreter and The Musketeer. All content will be in Spanish with no subtitles. Debuting today, TeleXitos is available in 16 markets and replaces Exitos, which aired telenovelas.
WBXZ-LP In Multi-Net Affiliation Deal With Luken
Ritchie Broadcasting’s WBXZ-LP Buffalo, N.Y. (DMA 52), has signed a multi-network affiliation agreement with Luken Communications. WBXZ will begin broadcasting Luken’s Retro TV and Rev’n networks on Dec. 1. “The WBXZ […]
Barry Wallach, Lonnie Cooper, Steve Schiffman are among the leadership team of Justice Network, which will feature entertaining programming with stories of true mystery set to launch in January 2015. It will enlist viewers to track down criminals and missing children. Gannett Broadcasting’s stations give it coverage of almost one-third of the U.S.
On Tuesday, Nov. 11, Luken Communications, in cooperation with One Eighty Films and X Factor Entertainment Group, will present the broadcast premiere of the feature film Everyman’s War. This primetime […]
CBS O&Os, Weigel To Launch Decades Diginet
Decades will feature originals and more than 100 television series, plus theatrical and made-for-TV movies. Original programming to include Decades Retrospectical, a daily topical show. It is expected to debut during the second quarter of 2015, with the 16 CBS-owned stations that are part of the CBS Television Network serving as the new service’s launch group.
The classic TV diginet signs affiliates in Dayton, Ohio; Flint-Saginaw-Bay City, Mich.; Eugene, Ore.; Bakersfield, Calif.; and Utica, N.Y.
Bounce TV viewership continued to climb in the just-completed third-quarter ratings period — which the network ended with posting its most-watched month ever. In primetime viewership for the quarter, Bounce TV delivered 152,000 households, up 45%; 85,000 adults 25-54, up 21%, and 75,000 adults 18-49, up 15%.
Bounce TV Adds Affil, Advertisers, Viewers
E.W. Scripps-owned Fox affiliate WSYM Lansing, Mich. (DMA 114), is now offering the African-American multicast network Bounce TV on a subchannel. Its addition drives the network past 90% of African […]
With these stations from Hearst, Gray, LM Communications, M33 Media, OTA Broadcasting and Ironwood Communications, the classic movie multicast channel’s clearances now top 50% of U.S.
Luken Communications is adding the classic soap opera The Doctors to its Retro TV diginet later this year. The Doctors ran on NBC for 19 years, spanned 5,280 episodes and […]
