The Offical RETRO TELEVISION (RTV) Thread!

[site123a]

Offical Videokarma RETRO TELEVISION (RTV) Thread!


I wanted to create this thread for a while now dedicated to the Retro Television Network (RTV). Basicly anything you want to talk about that has to do with or related to RTV can go; Like the TV shows, actors, the director/writers, cars in the episodes, places that the show was shot in, guns or etc...

For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, RTV is an over the air digital channel (usually on affiliate stations) that shows nothing but old TV shows. For example:

The Rockford Files
Airwolf
Knight Rider
Laredo
The Incredible
and many more...

If you want to know if RTV even broadcast’s in your area, click on the link below:
http://www.myretrotv.com/affiliates.html *

Broadcasting schedules can be found here:
http://www.myretrotv.com/programming.html


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Originally Posted by matt_s78mn

I'd be a little cautious of their affiliates page on their website as it isn't entirely accurate and STILL hasn't been updated. The parent company of the TV station I work for was in talks with RTV a couple years ago (back when they were known as RTN) about us carrying them on a subchannel... those talks broke down and it didn't happen and we decided to go with ThisTV instead... yet we are still listed as an affiliate on the RTV site... strange...

[bandersen]

According to the website, they are still testing the transmitter for channel 24 in Chicago. I'm not picking anything up yet. The prospect of a new OTA channel is awesome though.

[Username1]

Bummer I use to get WTEN from Albany Analog. They have Retro tv. Anyone get This-Tv? http://www.thistv.com/ We have found ourselves watching this network more and more. Great old movies, Outer Limits, Stargate, etc. How about ion? they are pretty good too...... Seems like this digital tv stuff is an opportunity for NEW networks that offer some pretty good old stuff that in some cases is much more appealing than new network programing. Anyone watch W-I-P-E-O-U-T-! on ABC? its got my vote for best gameshow of all time! ! !

ok, I'm sleepy now........ nite all.

[bandersen]

Yep, I get MeTV, MeToo, and ThisTV on 26.2, 26.3 and 26.4. Awesome stuff.

[site123a]

It looks like RTV is finally getting a Saturday morning line up starting in October. Which will be:

8am Fat Albert
830am Ghostbusters (1986 verson)
9am Archies
930am Brave Starr
10am She-Ra
1030am He-Man
11am Lassie
1130a Lassie

[sampson159]

alfred hitchcock,adam 12,dragnet,wagon train,peter gunn,incredible hulk,the saturday night movie,etc.love this channel.mytv is also reasonably good.as long as it is over the air and not pay tv!

[JB5pro]

My mom liked that show and it looks like it would be a great show. I loved seeing the high quality color picture of 1965. I read that at that time Bill Cosby bought a red '64 Ferrari that he still has today. Another time I noticed the intro to The Bill Cosby Show. I never saw that show either. It is interesting they have three shows with Bill Cosby.

[site123a]

Anyone here likes staying up to watch the The Alfred Hitchcock Hour? I really like how each episode starts off normal then turns into something cynical or evil...

[NowhereMan 1966]

Originally Posted by site123a

It looks like RTV is finally getting a Saturday morning line up starting in October. Which will be:

8am Fat Albert
830am Ghostbusters (1986 verson)
9am Archies
930am Brave Starr
10am She-Ra
1030am He-Man
11am Lassie
1130a Lassie

Alright!!!!!!!! I remember I said a while back that I'd like to see some TV station do a duplicate of Saturday mornings from the mid 1960's to the late 1980's. This is a good start. The downside, I work Saturdays, I'll have to get some VHS tapes now.

I'd like to see some more stuff lime "Shazam" and "Smurfs" tossed in, but RTV seems to be closely affliated with Universal and these cartoons, except Lassie, was made by Filmation so hopefully at some point I can see some more stuff by them like "Shazam," "Jason of Star Command" and so on.

We get two RTV's here in Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh and Steubenville, Ohio, I wonder if they will be the same or different. I'll have to run two VCR's.

[NowhereMan 1966]

Originally Posted by Username1

Bummer I use to get WTEN from Albany Analog. They have Retro tv. Anyone get This-Tv? http://www.thistv.com/ We have found ourselves watching this network more and more. Great old movies, Outer Limits, Stargate, etc. How about ion? they are pretty good too...... Seems like this digital tv stuff is an opportunity for NEW networks that offer some pretty good old stuff that in some cases is much more appealing than new network programing. Anyone watch W-I-P-E-O-U-T-! on ABC? its got my vote for best gameshow of all time! ! !

ok, I'm sleepy now........ nite all.

I get it here in Pittsburgh, Channel 4.2 (UHF channel 51)

[Jeffhs]

I'm 35 miles east of Cleveland and have Time Warner BB (bare-bones--broadcast only) basic cable. If they have RTV or RTN in this area, it must be on one of the digital tiers which I don't get anymore, since I dropped digital cable some five years ago. I now get my vintage TV shows on DVD and VHS. Netflix is a lot cheaper than digital cable, and I have many old TV series and movies on VHS as well as some 1970s shows on DVD, so I don't miss digital or x-basic (expanded basic cable). If RTN had a website on which they streamed their programming, I'd be watching that quite a bit; however, the website only shows what programs are available on the cable channel, and a list of their affiliates across the country. The closest RTN affiliate to me is in Toledo, Ohio, some 120 miles west of here. Cleveland does have a THIStv affiliate on a subchannel of the local MyTV station (WUAB, virtual channel 43), but again, since I have only broadcast channels on my cable, I have no way of seeing THIStv unless the MyTV station runs one of its movies, as they often do on weekends.

[matt_s78mn]

Originally Posted by bandersen

According to the website, they are still testing the transmitter for channel 24 in Chicago. I'm not picking anything up yet. The prospect of a new OTA channel is awesome though.

I'd be a little cautious of their affiliates page on their website as it isn't entirely accurate and STILL hasn't been updated. The parent company of the TV station I work for was in talks with RTV a couple years ago (back when they were known as RTN) about us carrying them on a subchannel... those talks broke down and it didn't happen and we decided to go with ThisTV instead... yet we are still listed as an affiliate on the RTV site... strange... Anyway, since RTV isn't available in my market, I can pull them in with my C-Band satellite dish if I want to watch them. Watching it that way is great, as its full broadcast quality, and there's like 5 different feeds to choose from, instead of having to watch a highly compressed dtv subchannel.

[jr_tech]

Originally Posted by matt_s78mn

Anyway, since RTV isn't available in my market, I can pull them in with my C-Band satellite dish if I want to watch them. Watching it that way is great, as its full broadcast quality, and there's like 5 different feeds to choose from, instead of having to watch a highly compressed dtv subchannel.

Which bird are the feeds on? Are they free or scrambled/analog or digital?

jr

[Dan Starnes]

We dont have it in the Quincy IL area, but when I travel I catch it in Effingham IL and St. Louis MO. Love it!

[matt_s78mn]

Originally Posted by jr_tech

Which bird are the feeds on? Are they free or scrambled/analog or digital?

jr

Here are the satellite coordinates for both RTV and ThisTV. They are all digital and unencrypted. You will need a FTA DVB receiver to get them. I use a commercial Scientific Atlanta PowerVu satellite receiver and it works fine except that its a pain to tune feeds in with its cumbersome menus.

RTV on Ku-band:

Satellite: AMC 9
DVB-S
Transponder 1 (11735) Horizontal
Symbol Rate: 4444
FEC: 3/4

RTV on C-band:

Satellite: AMC 3
Two DVB-S2 muxes
Trasponders 5 (3800) and 19 (4080) Horizontal
Symbol Rate: 29125
FEC: 5/6
(8PSK)

ThisTV:

Satellite: AMC 3
DVB-S
Transponder 7 (3833) Horizontal
Symbol Rate: 2734
FEC: 5/6