RTN and ThisTV (was Re: WJAR drops Weather Plus)

[Peter Q. George]

Personally, I'm really enjoying the Retro Television Network on WJAR 10.2.  It's a welcomed change to the sameness of the rest of the OTA fare (analog or digital).  I know that RTN went through some economic issues a few weeks back.  But with all that out of the way, I think they will do fine in the coming weeks and months.  I also look forward to ThisTV on Channel 7.2 (WHDH-DT).  Having watched WCIU/26 and WWME/"MeTV" stations (Weigel Broadcasting) while in Chicago, myself, I'm sure that This TV (a combined effort between Weigel and MGM), that it will be a winner as well.  Kudos to WHDH for planning to add ThisTV to Channel 7.2 .

Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
Whitman, Massachusetts
"Scanning the bands since 1967"
radiojunkie3@yahoo.com
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--- On Fri, 1/23/09, Larry Weil <kc1ih@mac.com> wrote:

> From: Larry Weil <kc1ih@mac.com>
> Subject: Re: WJAR drops Weather Plus
> To: "Boston Radio Group" <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
> Date: Friday, January 23, 2009, 11:54 AM
> At 8:29 AM -0800 1/23/09, Maureen Carney wrote:
> 
> > IIRC wasn't one of the plans for WHDH's
> subchannels to use NBC cable outlets as a test? At the time
> I heard this (somewhere around 1999) almost no one had
> digital converters so cable outcry wouldn't have been so
> great.
> 
> I was not aware of anything of that nature, nor do I recall
> seeing any such thing on the air.
> 
> -- Larry Weil
> WHDH/WLVI Master Control