GroupWBZ 73 Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Regardless, NBC on channel 8 is not as embarrassing as NBC on channel 60. Plus it's an obvious shot at Ed Ansin. *Insert WWJ reference here* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2876 Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 *Insert WWJ reference here* If WWJ had taken place in the digital TV era, CBS would have been doing all it could to brand the station as, say, 6, not 62. In analog, you're locked in to the number you actually transmit on. In digital, you're not. Such is the case of Mexico's Canal 5, which (along with other national networks) abandoned 25 or 26 different numbers nationwide to be 5.1 in almost all areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevCor 344 Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 NBC Boston’s local news lineup will feature some of the top journalists in the region including: NBC Boston Today (4:30-7AM) Nick Emmons, anchor Melody Mendez, anchor Matt Noyes, chief meteorologist Natasha Verma, traffic anchor Latoyia Edwards, breaking news anchor Using the Chief Met for your AM news? That has to be a first...right? Edit: Outside of, you know Ginger Zee and GMA... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoadStar 363 Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Using the Chief Met for your AM news? That has to be a first...right? Edit: Outside of, you know Ginger Zee and GMA... WITI-Milwaukee has chief meteorologist Rob Haswell working the AM news (and the "Real Milwaukee" talk show that follows). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroupWBZ 73 Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 If WWJ had taken place in the digital TV era, CBS would have been doing all it could to brand the station as, say, 6, not 62. In analog, you're locked in to the number you actually transmit on. In digital, you're not. Such is the case of Mexico's Canal 5, which (along with other national networks) abandoned 25 or 26 different numbers nationwide to be 5.1 in almost all areas. Even now I'm floored when I think about the fact that they didn't have their own news operations (or a very limited one at that) for so long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eat News 4738 Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Even now I'm floored when I think about the fact that they didn't have their own news operations (or a very limited one at that) for so long. Not like that market was seeing explosive growth. Looking back It was a very smart move. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrabbleship 427 Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 Two more NBC Boston tidbits from, of all places, a Boston Bruins message board.. 1: Charter Spectrum has no plans of carrying NBC Boston on their Worcester-area systems and is poised to currently carry solely WJAR for NBC come 2017. No word on the Spectrum headend in Pepperell along the New Hampshire border (no second NBC) or the Time Warner headends in Athol (also gets WWLP) or Keene, NH (also gets WNNE but digital and SD-only). 2: Due to studio spacing concerns all NBC Boston newscasts will be simulcast on NECN even though studio space would be a concern for the hour a day when NBC Boston and Telemundo Boston are both live. This may be why NBC Boston is launching a noon versus a 11:00 AM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvcg66b3r 97 Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 1: Charter Spectrum has no plans of carrying NBC Boston on their Worcester-area systems and is poised to currently carry solely WJAR for NBC come 2017. No word on the Spectrum headend in Pepperell along the New Hampshire border (no second NBC) or the Time Warner headends in Athol (also gets WWLP) or Keene, NH (also gets WNNE but digital and SD-only). Do they currently carry WNEU? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroupWBZ 73 Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 Do they currently carry WNEU? I believe they do, yes. No idea if they would switch to just carrying the new Telemundo channel instead of WNEU itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 1843 Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 Two more NBC Boston tidbits from, of all places, a Boston Bruins message board.. 1: Charter Spectrum has no plans of carrying NBC Boston on their Worcester-area systems and is poised to currently carry solely WJAR for NBC come 2017. No word on the Spectrum headend in Pepperell along the New Hampshire border (no second NBC) or the Time Warner headends in Athol (also gets WWLP) or Keene, NH (also gets WNNE but digital and SD-only). 2: Due to studio spacing concerns all NBC Boston newscasts will be simulcast on NECN even though studio space would be a concern for the hour a day when NBC Boston and Telemundo Boston are both live. This may be why NBC Boston is launching a noon versus a 11:00 AM. Involving 2) Weird, considering that NECN actually airs a LIVE hour of news at 12:00 Noon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewEnglandOne 17 Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 Two more NBC Boston tidbits from, of all places, a Boston Bruins message board.. 2: Due to studio spacing concerns all NBC Boston newscasts will be simulcast on NECN even though studio space would be a concern for the hour a day when NBC Boston and Telemundo Boston are both live. This may be why NBC Boston is launching a noon versus a 11:00 AM. This is incorrect. Studio B went live yesterday on necn and Telemundo Boston - Studio A will be used for NBC Boston. With two studios and two control rooms, two of the stations will be able to broadcast live at the same time (Telemundo Boston only produces two newscasts a day - from 6pm-6:30pm and 11pm-11:35pm.) The only time an NBC Boston newscast will be simulcast on necn is during a major breaking news event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewEnglandOne 17 Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 1: Charter Spectrum has no plans of carrying NBC Boston on their Worcester-area systems and is poised to currently carry solely WJAR for NBC come 2017. No word on the Spectrum headend in Pepperell along the New Hampshire border (no second NBC) or the Time Warner headends in Athol (also gets WWLP) or Keene, NH (also gets WNNE but digital and SD-only). Comcast could strong arm Charter on this one... being that Worcester is part of the Boston television market, they could potentially be forced to carry NBC Boston. Even though WBTS is a low power station, WNEU is full-power and has must carry rights... I'm sure they could use that to have Charter carry NBC Boston. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tw-804 190 Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 Using the Chief Met for your AM news? That has to be a first...right? Edit: Outside of, you know Ginger Zee and GMA... The Charlottesville Newsplex (WCAV/WAHU/WVAW) has chief meteorologist Travis Koshko working the morning and noon news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvcg66b3r 97 Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 Comcast could strong arm Charter on this one... being that Worcester is part of the Boston television market, they could potentially be forced to carry NBC Boston. Even though WBTS is a low power station, WNEU is full-power and has must carry rights... I'm sure they could use that to have Charter carry NBC Boston. When do Charter/TWC's carriage deals with NBCU expire? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrschimpf 2050 Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 Comcast could strong arm Charter on this one... being that Worcester is part of the Boston television market, they could potentially be forced to carry NBC Boston. Even though WBTS is a low power station, WNEU is full-power and has must carry rights... I'm sure they could use that to have Charter carry NBC Boston. I don't know...Charter has to usually get buried by user demand to get a new channel on the lineup from my long experience from them, and I'm getting the feeling that it'll eventually be added in April/May. It took them a few months to add a local independent here in Milwaukee that was in the same situation (Weigel's WMLW, back when they were on an LP signal before they switched to the WBME/WJJA full-power space) and only did so when they got high school basketball tourney rights and expanded their schedule beyond barter dregs (they had to dump America One from their schedule, for instance). And they refused to even carry WVCY until 2014 when that station was finally able to make a strong must-carry argument in the digital age. At best for now they might have to settle for the digital subchannel tier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkolsen 1675 Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 [quote name='myronfalwell']Having an LPTV inside the market proper (where it's far enough away from WMTW) helped matters. Plus a station isn't necessarily tied to their PSIP channel ID permanently; Daystar had the PSIP of WRLM/Canton reassigned from 67 to 47 with the DTV conversion. Regardless, NBC on channel 8 is not as embarrassing as NBC on channel 60. Plus it's an obvious shot at Ed Ansin.[/QUOTE] Maybe @Thundershock MN can provide some insight to this but don't FCC rules require the virtual channel number to be equivalent to their analog channel number? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2876 Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 [quote name='rkolsen']Maybe @Thundershock MN can provide some insight to this but don't FCC rules require the virtual channel number to be equivalent to their analog channel number?[/QUOTE] Usually, the options are... #1. Use your old analog number; #2. Use your digital RF number (which is what WRLM used); #3. If another station is using your digital RF number, you use their physical channel number. Example: K26KJ-D El Paso. KINT broadcasts on virtual 26, so K26KJ-D uses a virtual channel of 25 (KINT's RF). The FCC has granted some unusual exemptions. KCWT-CA La Feria, TX, takes the cake for me, because Entravision used Mexico to get its desired virtual channel. KCWT uses RF 23 — no luck there due to KVEO. Its analog channel was 30 — which is the digital RF channel of XHAB Matamoros. Entravision claimed to the FCC that XHAB did not use PSIP and was using virtual channel 30 (which was incorrect — it was virtual channel 7, its former analog, until VC-Day last month). They asked for and got virtual channel 21, which not coincidentally is The CW's position on local cable systems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BostonBandit 5 Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 This is incorrect. Studio B went live yesterday on necn and Telemundo Boston - Studio A will be used for NBC Boston. With two studios and two control rooms, two of the stations will be able to broadcast live at the same time (Telemundo Boston only produces two newscasts a day - from 6pm-6:30pm and 11pm-11:35pm.) The only time an NBC Boston newscast will be simulcast on necn is during a major breaking news event. There are actually 3 control rooms for the 2 studios, plus the newsroom set. They're able to have 3 different programs live on all 3 channels at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdex86 48 Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 Due to studio spacing concerns all NBC Boston newscasts will be simulcast on NECN even though studio space would be a concern for the hour a day when NBC Boston and Telemundo Boston are both live. This may be why NBC Boston is launching a noon versus a 11:00 AM. Why would NBC Boston even considering launching a newscast at 11 AM in the first place? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Muck 4161 Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 Using the Chief Met for your AM news? That has to be a first...right? Edit: Outside of, you know Ginger Zee and GMA... WKBW morning meteorologist Andy Parker has the "director of meteorology" title; while Aaron Mentkowski in evenings has the "chief meteorologist" title. I fail to see the difference between the two titles honestly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Muck 4161 Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 2: Due to studio spacing concerns all NBC Boston newscasts will be simulcast on NECN even though studio space would be a concern for the hour a day when NBC Boston and Telemundo Boston are both live. This may be why NBC Boston is launching a noon versus a 11:00 AM. How complete is NBC 8's daytime lineup? Considering that it's launching mid-season with a few shows (and the promise of others once existing contracts with competitors run out) it might make sense to simulcast NECN on any open slots... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroupWBZ 73 Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 How complete is NBC 8's daytime lineup? Considering that it's launching mid-season with a few shows (and the promise of others once existing contracts with competitors run out) it might make sense to simulcast NECN on any open slots... Well the Today Show goes until noon, they can show an hour of news at noon if they want, show whatever soaps are left in the afternoon, toss in a talk show or two, and then start with news at 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greggo 340 Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 Here's how they're filling the non-news time slots: Rachael Ray at 11a, Access Hollywood Live at 2p, Harry at 3p and Access Hollywood at 7:30p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 1843 Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 Well the Today Show goes until noon, they can show an hour of news at noon if they want, show whatever soaps are left in the afternoon, toss in a talk show or two, and then start with news at 4. Except they got "The Hub Today" at 12:30pm as the noon news will be just half-hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broadcastfan9751 136 Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 Comcast could strong arm Charter on this one... being that Worcester is part of the Boston television market, they could potentially be forced to carry NBC Boston. Even though WBTS is a low power station, WNEU is full-power and has must carry rights... I'm sure they could use that to have Charter carry NBC Boston. NBC elected retransmission consent for WNEU on Charter's systems, so Charter is not required to carry it. Also, even if they elected must-carry, it only applies to a station's primary channel (in WNEU's case, 60.1). They could require carriage of NBC Boston as part of a retransmission consent agreement for carriage of other NBC O&O's and NBC's cable channels, but that would only happen after NBC's current agreement with Charter expires. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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