Does anyone have any knowledge about something called "Antenna TV"?

The only online info that I have been able to find without a virus hitting my computer is that it's supposed to be a service similar to Retro TV and will run on Tribune Co. O&O OTA stations starting January 3.

Coming Jan 1 2011 here. Will show lots of old TV shows looks like.

http://www.wgnamerica.com/shows/antenna/


http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p72/tblazed/antennatv-premieres-4-3.jpg

We'll have Antenna TV on 33.2, and This TV on 33.3. On 31.3 we have Hot TV, and RTV on 31.4. Plenty of old programming to watch!

I just heard a commercial for it on WGN AM 720. It's will be available over the air and on Comcast cable. I noticed that WCIU is tweaking it's classic TV sub channel line up too. It will be interesting to see how the two networks compete.

We have "thistv" here in ny, but the bit rate must be very low because when ever there is fast action on the screen the picture blurs into large squares. They have sooo many really strange old movies I don't ever remember seeing. And Elvira's BBB rated scary movies so bad they are funny, them boring. I hope we get a few more like this out of nyc.

I wonder if "Antenna TV" will show up here in northern Ohio any time soon, as a subchannel of one of the network stations. THIStv is on a subchannel of Cleveland's MyTV affiliate (every weekend the station shows a movie from THIS), but to date there is nothing else on the cable here having to do with old TV programming (meaning no RTV or RTN anywhere near here -- the nearest RTN affiliate is 120 miles away, and not carried on the cable in my area).

I guess that leaves me only one choice for retro TV programming -- Netflix. I've had a subscription to it for five years and have enjoyed it (I'm on the 3-DVD out a month unlimited plan), but I just read an article this afternoon on the Internet (on ZDNet's website, IIRC) that Netflix is eventually going to phase out DVDs in favor of streaming video. Ordinarily that wouldn't bother me, but I live on a fixed income (disability) and cannot afford the fancy new equipment I'm sure I would need to continue receiving Netflix's movies over the Internet. My current TV is 11 years old and still works every bit as well as when it was new; my DVD player is only about two years old and also continues to operate quite well. What are people such as myself supposed to do when (not if) Netflix finally stops its DVD rental service because it has gone to 100-percent streaming video over the Internet? There are still plenty of folks around here, and across the United States as well, with DVD players and active subscriptions to Netflix; if the DVD rentals end, it will leave a lot of these people with DVD players they can't use. Many people today have Blu-ray players that cost an arm and a leg, compared to DVD players; these folks won't be too happy, either, when they find out that BR disc rentals are no longer available from Netflix, which is one of only two or three DVD rental services still in operation in the US.

Well, the schedule looks fairly decent to me:
http://media.trb.com/media/acrobat/2010-12/88256780-09151518.pdf

I wonder if "Antenna TV" will show up here in northern Ohio any time soon, as a subchannel of one of the network stations. THIStv is on a subchannel of Cleveland's MyTV affiliate (every weekend the station shows a movie from THIS), but to date there is nothing else on the cable here having to do with old TV programming (meaning no RTV or RTN anywhere near here -- the nearest RTN affiliate is 120 miles away, and not carried on the cable in my area).

I guess that leaves me only one choice for retro TV programming -- Netflix. I've had a subscription to it for five years and have enjoyed it (I'm on the 3-DVD out a month unlimited plan), but I just read an article this afternoon on the Internet (on ZDNet's website, IIRC) that Netflix is eventually going to phase out DVDs in favor of streaming video. Ordinarily that wouldn't bother me, but I live on a fixed income (disability) and cannot afford the fancy new equipment I'm sure I would need to continue receiving Netflix's movies over the Internet. My current TV is 11 years old and still works every bit as well as when it was new; my DVD player is only about two years old and also continues to operate quite well. What are people such as myself supposed to do when (not if) Netflix finally stops its DVD rental service because it has gone to 100-percent streaming video over the Internet? There are still plenty of folks around here, and across the United States as well, with DVD players and active subscriptions to Netflix; if the DVD rentals end, it will leave a lot of these people with DVD players they can't use. Many people today have Blu-ray players that cost an arm and a leg, compared to DVD players; these folks won't be too happy, either, when they find out that BR disc rentals are no longer available from Netflix, which is one of only two or three DVD rental services still in operation in the US.

Antenna TV will be carried in the Cleveland area on channel 8.2 beginning on January 1, 2011 and it will be carried on Time Warner Cable beginning on January 2.
I read somewhere that Antenna's programming on January 1 will start with a marathon of the Three Stooges followed by a marathon of the Benny Hill Show.

Of course, we'll probably be the last area in the country to get it, if we even get it at all. If we do get it, they'll probably dump it in a year and replace it with the usual sludge daytime programming, just like they did with RTV.

List of affiliates on Wikipedia, which seems to be growing: :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Antenna_TV_affiliates

jr

Wow. We'll have RTV, ThisTV and AntennaTV! Now if only an AM station would return to an easy-listening format...

When I first saw this topic in the list, I was afraid it could be someone asking about some mysterious TV service who was unaware that you could get TV signals without any cable or satellite hookup.

I filled to subchannel 9.2 today and saw this :)

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5285/5272051387_82c988f1b9_z.jpg

I filled to subchannel 9.2 today and saw this :)

Is that a hum bar in the picture?

I filled to subchannel 9.2 today and saw this :)

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5285/5272051387_82c988f1b9_z.jpg

Ooh. After comparing your pic to mine, I'm now wondering if my picture alignment is WAY too far to the left! :( It looks normal on everything else that I watch...

Is that a hum bar in the picture?


Nope, that's just my camera being out of sync with the CRT refresh. It's a 2005 RCA secureview prison set.

We just hooked up my Dad's new tv tonight (christmas present) and when he was programming it, I saw the ATV logo and yelled turn it back! Looks like WPHL Philadelphia will run ATV on one digital sub, and THIStv on another. Dad's pretty excited as he can't get RTV down his way.

They've already started broadcasting tonight :D It seems to be small (< 5minute) segments rather than whole episodes. I wonder if they'll do anything special at midnight ?

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Yep same here in DFW. I noticed it earlier this morning, showing a preview loop looks like. The primary 33.1 is CW, 33.2 Antenna TV and 33.3 This TV. This TV is looking especially lousy tonight, lots of digital artifacts in the picture.

We have AntennaTV on 9.2, MeTV on 26.3 and ThisTV on 26.5.

Looks like a Three Stooges Marathon has just started.

Yes indeed - great way to start the new year :thmbsp:
I fired up the Sentinel 430 and GE 810 :)
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very nice and my three favorite characters, I kicked on a roundie for the ball drop and 2011 and quickly shut it off when Lil Wayne grabbed his **** and started testing the roundie's ability to emit garbled audio that resembled chicken clucking as it was getting sucked up by a brush chipper/shredder.:drool:

I have to commend Antenna TV for not "bugging" the picture with a logo. :thmbsp:
Hopefully that will last.

very nice and my three favorite characters, I kicked on a roundie for the ball drop and 2011 and quickly shut it off when Lil Wayne grabbed his **** and started testing the roundie's ability to emit garbled audio that resembled chicken clucking as it was getting sucked up by a brush chipper/shredder.:drool:

I'd like to publicly apologize for my city going down the crapper at lightning speed. Once we gave the world Dixieland jazz, Louis Prima, Louis Armstrong, Fats Domino and Allen Toussaint amongst others. Today it's garbage like Lil Wayne, Master P and C-Murder, B-Stupid, Bow Wow, etc., etc. Wholly embarrassing.

WXMI is broadcasting Antenna TV on 17-2 and ThisTV on 17-3 in our area.

John

Now Houston has 2 classic television "networks". 57-1 which is "The Kube" and 39.2 for "Antenna TV".

N'yuk,N'yuk,N'yuk,There can never be enough Stooge marathons!

Howard,Fine & Howard will now sing their hit song "She was bred in old Kentucky,but she's just a crumb out here" b/w ""Don't chop the wood mother,fathers coming home with a load"

Curly:"Hey!,you can't talk to us that way!,we're not ordinary people,we're morons!"

I'd like to publicly apologize for my city going down the crapper at lightning speed. Once we gave the world Dixieland jazz, Louis Prima, Louis Armstrong, Fats Domino and Allen Toussaint amongst others. Today it's garbage like Lil Wayne, Master P and C-Murder, B-Stupid, Bow Wow, etc., etc. Wholly embarrassing.

Don't forget the "big man" himself Al Hirt!
You're right,so many great musicians came from Louisiana

Don't forget the "big man" himself Al Hirt!
... and Pete Fountain!

Ha, I don't post much in this forum, obviously, but thought I'd start a thread about this new channel, called "Antenna TV". Apparently, I don't have to, so nevermind. :D I like it, but had no idea it was all over the country. :smoke: I forgot how funny Archie Bunker was, & I never watched "Father Knows Best" before, that was slightly before my time. EDIT: I see my old Beavis avatar needs updated here, so I don't confuse myself. :D ;)

Nope, that's just my camera being out of sync with the CRT refresh. It's a 2005 RCA secureview prison set.

I have three RCA Secureview sets that were built in 2008. They're equipped with a DTV board So you can use them anywhere a signal is present. P.S. in Milwaukee, RTV changed to Antenna TV. They have a TV6-2 logo in the lower right corner.

It comes on here in the NY area on channel 11.4 WPIX and over cablevision channels 114 , since 11.4 is a digital channel and not hd it doesn't look so great , then on cable its re-sent on channel 114 digital not hd and looks even worse , a dvd-r looks better at 6 hour speed and vhs even better at 6 hour speed , and even if the channel looked great here they butcher ( cut/edit ) the shows up , plus most of what they show is out on dvd with exceptions , the last season of the Flying Nun ( if they get to them ) and the color Hazel episodes.

Mike