MeTV

[DaveWM]

love the line up, adding bewitched and Genie soon, but I have to complain a bit about the time compression (I assume for more commercials). Its some what cartoonish how fast some of the action takes place, was watching Jim fighting some bad guys on WWW and it was so obvious...

[tvtimeisfun]

Hello Dave METV is a lot better than tvland tvland use to be a great channel to watch I wish metv would have retromecials but it is o.k. for what it is...Timothy

[radiotron]

Originally Posted by tvtimeisfun

Hello Dave METV is a lot better than tvland tvland use to be a great channel to watch I wish metv would have retromecials but it is o.k. for what it is...Timothy

I love metv!
although retromercials would be great.

Hey tim can you pm me "your version" of jingle bells?
the one you sang at the shop last week.

[bgadow]

The one true advantage of my new rooftop antenna is I can get MeTV. It's introduced us to several shows that we just never watched before; I've become a real fan of Emergency! and my wife really liked The Rifleman. She's looking forward to Bewitched. A great network, I hope they can keep themselves from monkeying with it.

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by bgadow

The one true advantage of my new rooftop antenna is I can get MeTV. It's introduced us to several shows that we just never watched before; I've become a real fan of Emergency! and my wife really liked The Rifleman. She's looking forward to Bewitched. A great network, I hope they can keep themselves from monkeying with it.

I like Emergency! too; it's on MeTV in Cleveland (channel 19.2, DTV subchannel of the Cleveland CBS affiliate). I used to watch it when it was new on NBC in the 1970s, and liked it right off the bat. Still like watching the reruns.

I agree with you that MeTV is an excellent retro-TV network, along with Antenna TV; as I have said in previous posts, I watch these networks daily and enjoy the heck out of them, as they have almost all the shows I grew up watching. I too hope they are kept as they are, and not fiddled around with like TV Land and Nick at Nite were. The latter two networks are now mostly showing programs from the '80s and '90s, which can hardly be considered classics -- yet, anyway.

I bet you like being able to watch NBC, finally, after years or decades of being stuck with just ABC, CBS and PBS from Salisbury. I saw on TVGuide.com (when I entered your zip code) that the default OTA channels for your area are in fact the Baltimore channels, 2, 11 and 13, plus UHF and PBS.

Before DTV, were you ever able to watch Baltimore TV with a large antenna? Distant reception like that was probably much easier in the NTSC analog days, as you didn't have to worry about the picture breaking up or disappearing entirely. These days, with DTV, of course, it's all or nothing, and if you have digital subchannels on VHF stations it can be a problem, since many VHF DTV stations require large high-gain antennas to get any reception at all. That's the situation in my town. I'm 35 miles from Cleveland, but most DTV stations come in well here with just a small UHF DTV antenna. The two stations I don't get using this antenna are 8.1, 8.2, 19.1 and 19.2, which (darn it anyway!) are on VHF DTV channels; they either do not reach my area, very well or at all, or are too weak. I have been told that to get these channels OTA, I would need a good-sized outdoor antenna. So, back to cable.

[DavGoodlin]

Originally Posted by bgadow

The one true advantage of my new rooftop antenna is I can get MeTV. It's introduced us to several shows that we just never watched before; I've become a real fan of Emergency! and my wife really liked The Rifleman. She's looking forward to Bewitched. A great network, I hope they can keep themselves from monkeying with it.

As you watch Bewitched from early to late episodes, you'll see the newest model Zenith right in front of the stair landing.
During the 70's, the three independent (and unlike in NYC, UHF) channels in Philly ran most of the 60's shows, fueling demand for antenna upgrades in our fringe area!

Fortunately for us, MeTV is on a local UHF channel that is stable even with an indoor antenna, properly placed.

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by DavGoodlin

As you watch Bewitched from early to late episodes, you'll see the newest model Zenith right in front of the stair landing.
During the 70's, the three independent (and unlike in NYC, UHF) channels in Philly ran most of the 60's shows, fueling demand for antenna upgrades in our fringe area!

Fortunately for us, MeTV is on a local UHF channel that is stable even with an indoor antenna, properly placed.

What station do you watch MeTV on? I don't know where you are located (however, I would guess near Philadelphia), but I am curious to know how you get MeTV if you are in a fringe area. I am in a near-fringe area for Cleveland TV; the only way I can get MeTV, which is on a digital subchannel of Cleveland's CBS affiliate, is on cable.

Thanks much.

KInd regards,

[Dude111]

I think ANTENNA TV is quite good

[bgadow]

Originally Posted by Jeffhs

Before DTV, were you ever able to watch Baltimore TV with a large antenna? Distant reception like that was probably much easier in the NTSC analog days, as you didn't have to worry about the picture breaking up or disappearing entirely.

Analog from Baltimore & DC wasn't hard to do, though in most locations it demanded a top-notch antenna. Best reception I ever saw was at a friends house, he lives at the edge of a salt marsh and had a good antenna on a tower. (a storm eventually took the antenna down and he was too cheap to replace it) He used to get every DC/Balt UHF station, crystal clear, on top of the VHF. Digital sure changes things. Saturday night I decided to turn on SNL, first time I've seen it live in probably 10 years or more. At 20 minutes to 1am the screen turned to pixelation city, then was gone. Time to go to bed, anyway.

[Jeffhs]

Bryan, I know what you mean regarding the difference DTV makes, especially with near-fringe area reception. I live in such an area for Cleveland TV (roughly 35 miles from the city's downtown area and a bit further from the TV stations, all of which transmit from a southwestern Cleveland suburb) and was surprised when I connected a DTV indoor antenna to my flat screen. Every Cleveland station but two came in amazingly well -- no pixelization, dropouts or other problems; in fact, the pictures on all stations were better than I ever remember seeing in analog NTSC or B&W. The two stations I do not receive with the UHF DTV antenna are the FOX and CBS affiliates in Cleveland, the subchannels of which are Antenna TV and MeTV, respectively -- my two favorite stations; so I stored the indoor antenna and went back to cable, as I mentioned in a previous post.

How big is your DTV antenna, and do you have a mast-mounted preamplifier ahead of it? The amplifier might strengthen the signals just enough that you will be able to watch NBC, and all other Baltimore stations, without losing the signal as you did the Saturday night you were watching SNL.

Does your antenna also receive Washington, D.C. stations? Baltimore is not that far from DC (can't be more than perhaps 20 miles -- in fact, most folks in either city can get the other's stations with no problems), so I would think if you are getting all stations from one area, you should see the other area's stations just as well if you are using a high-power antenna with an amplifier, unless of course your area's geography is such that you are blocked from OTA reception of DC's stations using an antenna.

[bgadow]

Jeff, I really need to buy a pre-amplifier. Right now I am making due with some indoor amps that I already had. DC is doable from my location; with analog you could just leave the antenna aimed somewhere in between the two cities and get them all, but with digital it takes careful adjusting. At worst, there is only one "notch" on my rotor control that will get me a watchable signal. That's a pretty narrow angle! I really haven't bothered with the DC stations since they don't offer anything I really need right now.