I don't know whether I misread it or looked at a future week but everyone is correct...WKRP on MeTV starts with S1E1 and I will be archiving every one.
If you like WKRP that much - which I do - you'd be MUCH more satisfied just buying the box DVD set. Considering it's as low as around $40 now, it's worth it to NOT have to go thru dealing with commercials, as well as the fact that pieces of the show ARE cut out for time constraints for broadcasting today. (ie: to squeeze MORE commercial time in each episode!)I will be archiving every one.
You can have multiple HD channels from an OTA. I know our local CBS and NBC is doing that, and possibly FOX. You have 19.39Mbs of bandwidth. Put 12 on the primary, secondary gets 4 (at 720p), 2 for a 3rd SD, and you're there. I'm pretty sure MeTV remastered many of the shows to fill 16x9. They just started doing HD a year or so ago.
I thought MeTV originated in Chicago. I'm surprised Dish's feed is ahead of OTA. If you had said another local (that had to downlink, process, and retransmit), I would understand.
Shout Factory, who released the DVD set, got the vast majority of original music to be used in the DVD's...better than what went in the syndicated reruns. Not 100%, but pretty darn close...& you're still getting the closest to the run times of it's original network airings - if not all:
I agree about getting close to the original run times because WKRP isn't that old of a program. It's the older programming that suffers the most with reduced runtimes due to the necessity of adding more commercials. For example, the old series Perry Mason that ran from the mid 50's to the mid 60's had an average episode run time of around 50 minutes. The episodes shown on METV have at least 10 minutes cut from each episode to accommodate more commercials, and many times that's cause for not understanding what's going on.
But if he's receiving the OTA in Chicago, I think that's where MeTV originates. Unless it's going up to satellite and back down to Chicago, but I was under the impression it originated from a local station. I could be wrong.
It's too bad they downgraded it from HD to SD. The PQ on 247 isn't bad for SD but isn't as good as the OTA PQ.
Agreed. The national feed doesn't have any local info. BUT, if the MeTV original broadcast is originated from a station, is that station pulling it off the satellite (like everyone else) or do they have a direct feed?
Weigel started MeTV full time in 2005 on WWME 23 and is located in Chicago. They also own WCIU 26 known as “The U” in Chicago as well as subchannels Decades, Heroes and Icons, and Movies! MeTV airs on WWME 23 and also on WCIU 26.3 in Chicago and has been available on cable and satellite for several years.
