RTV has too good of a thing going to mess it up. Too many affiliates right now
The Tube had a lot of affiliates, too, but now it is gone. Are there any indications that RTV is making any money, and that the affiliates are making more money off it than they would expect to with alternative use of that bandwidth? I am comforted by the notion that, if I really wanted to, I could watch The Rockford Files and Magnum, PI in the evenings, but the fact is I don't.
In another thread somewhere, it was mentioned that pone local station had dropped RTV to take on one of the Spanish channels that did not have an outlet there. Might have been Telefutura.