Me-TV is coming

[jr_tech]

Originally Posted by Jeffhs

It gets every station on the cable here, including 19.2 and 8.2, of course.

Does this include all of the "premium" and premium movie (HBO MAX Showtime) channels, or just the first 100 or so that "basic" service would offer?

Originally Posted by Jeffhs

I also like Antenna TV and MeTV.

In my area, "This" and "RTV" as well as "Antenna TV" are available as OTA sub-channels... no sign of anybody carrying "MeTV" yet.

Thanks for the report... enjoy !
jr

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by jr_tech

Does this include all of the "premium" and premium movie (HBO MAX Showtime) channels, or just the first 100 or so that "basic" service would offer?

In my area, "This" and "RTV" as well as "Antenna TV" are available as OTA sub-channels... no sign of anybody carrying "MeTV" yet.

Thanks for the report... enjoy !
jr

I have expanded basic cable service, which does include some movie channels; however, since I do not subscribe to any of the latter, I get nothing if I try to select, say, channel 603 (HBO) or any other movie or pay-per-view channel. (Time Warner has the movie channels on 81 digital channels, starting with 601). I have found that Netflix is a much less expensive alternative to those high-priced subscription movie channels and pay-per-view services.

I'd wait awhile for MeTV. The network is signing up new affiliates all the time, so it may not be long before your area has it as a subchannel of one of the network stations. Here in northeastern Ohio, MeTV is on channel 19.2, a subchannel of CBS 19 (cable channel 4), the CBS affiliate in Cleveland. "THIStv" is on a subchannel of Cleveland's "MyTV" affiliate on channel 43, cable channel 6. Retro TV (RTV) is not yet carried by any Cleveland TV station; the closest RTV affiliate is in Toledo, Ohio which is over 100 miles west of Cleveland.

I do not think our cable systems here will pick up RTV any time soon. Time Warner may feel that two retro TV channels are enough in this area; that is not to say, however, that other TV markets served by the cable company would not have all three retro-TV channels. Your area, in Dayton, is obviously one market that does have RTV and Antenna TV but not MeTV; that may well be due to bandwidth limitations on local cable systems.