Friday Poll
December 18th, 2009 • Related • Filed Under
It seems like every local station has a local weather sub channel these days. Are these really necessary? Also, there are rumors abound that WSFA will stop carrying RTN or that RTN will stop producing content completely. CBS 42 Birmingham uses its 42.3 as a sports/outdoors channel. What about repeats of newscasts and breaking news on a sub channel? With all that in mind, here is our latest poll:
Popularity: 1% [?]
Finally! After almost a year and a half since Montgomery locals were turned up on Direct. Picture quality is great. ...
Saw a Crawl on 12.3 saying that RTN will cease Dec 31
Any updates on WIYC 67? I saw in the TV listings that they were schedule to show smackdown fri night .
The poll needs to consider that some of us don’t want sub channels at all, as they degrade the regular channel. NBC has the biggest problem with this during its sports coverage. The smearing, tearing and blocking caused by the lack of bandwidth render the games unwatchtable to me.
Also, the poll didn’t give an option for people to let you know that they don’t know that the sub-channels even exist.
Thanks for the info. We’re trying to get more info form WSFA and hope to have an article up soon.
WRJM 67 non longer exists. WIYC will be on channel 48 if it ever goes back over the air. It will no longer be a MyNet affiliate. So no Smackdown Friday night. It is now American Music Videos. If you have Dish I have a solution for you to get MyNet. Send me an email at jason@montgomerytvandradio.com.
We will try to add an “other” option to future polls. I also updated our FAQ section to explain what “sub channels” are. Thanks for the input.
“Other” is not appropriate either. That simply implies other programming on the sub-channels. Instead of, “get rid of sub-channels”, which is the intended response. Polls without the negative side equally represented are not polls.
I selected the option for ‘shows and movies’, but the truth is I’d rather not have any subchannels IF the main channel is HD. Now if the main channel is SD only like PAX or This! or some independent/religious production, then load the subchannels up, I don’t mind that.
Ya know the old saying “if you give someone an inch, they take a mile?” Well it applies to the bandwidth allocated radio and TV stations too. Out in Los Angeles there are several multi-ethnic TV stations with NINE – NINE! – SD subchannels. And some ABC O&Os are doing TWO 720p HD channels. Yuck. Now I’m hearing iBiquity is getting ready to roll out an update to allow four subchannels for IBOC, as if it doesn’t sound bad enough now. *grumbles*
I agree that taking bandwith away by adding more subs is a bad thing.
I believe the FCC has mandated children’s programming instead of weather. That is what I was told when I called WAKA.
What is mandated is that a % of air time is mandated to certain classes of programming. The networks use sub-channels as an “out” to achieve those numbers. The FCC does not say that WAKA must carry childrens programming instead of weather.