We have a new look that has just been unveiled. It's on this KCET Promo.
Tonight at midnight, we change over to what we are going to be for the foreseeable future. I have been doing all sorts of things to make this happen. I am currently in Phoenix, AZ so the rest of the Department is keeping things going, but I do check in from time to time. It's pretty ugly right now, especially getting shows captioned in time for air, but we will make it.
Our main HD Channel will be comprised of some Children's programming, some cooking and travel shows and some British programs. It's going to be interesting and in my humble opinion, just fine.
In addition, we will have the Kids and Family Channel taking over for our Desert Cities and Orange Channels.
V-Me the Spanish language channel will continue and MHZ Television will take the place of World.
It's a lot to change over, but we will get it all done, I am sure.
What do I think of the logo? Let's just say I will reserve judgment, until I see the rest.
It is interesting, but like you I will hold off making any comments till I see how it plays out. "NEW NEW YEARS" my sister, and the same to all your friends & family. Especially little Mankenna. :-)
ReplyDeleteThank you and a Happy New Year to you, too.
ReplyDeleteI was reading on Facebook today that a friend of mine went out yesterday and picked up not one, but two cats from a shelter in Pasadena. She was worried about that, but it worked out just fine for her and her 2 daughters. I am sure something will come up and your house will once again be filled with meows and love.
I kind of like the logo itself with its inclusion of the almost infinity symbol (∞)... just wish it hadn't been forcefully precipitated upon you due to various uncontrollable circumstances, that's all.
ReplyDeleteHope it works out well in the end, of course. Best wishes for a happy, healthy and satisfied new year to the KCET work family and to the actual family family.
On my own local TV front, as of Jan 1, there's a new ch 17 subchannel due to launch (note: 17 has never been PBS, just a simple lesser local UHF ch). The old .2 subchannel, "THiS" TV (B-, even C- and D- [!] movies) moved to .3 a month or two back, and now AntennaTV will take up residence in the .2 slot. Could be a good alternative for nights when there's not much else on, maybe see a few old faves now and then after many years away from them. Would love to see them eventually pick up things like The Jeffersons, Barney Miller, The Odd Couple, Mary Tyler Moore, or even maybe some hour dramas such as The Greatest American Hero o lesser sci-fi like, say, Dark Angel, or other "decent for what they were" shows that didn't necessarily become TV legends, but I enjoyed'em for the time they were on. Here's the AntennaTV starter schedule (in PDF) if you're curious. No idea if it's a truly nationwide launch, but I think it's supposed to be. As they say... "check your local listings."
For now the occasional All In The Family, Sanford And Son, The Nanny, Benny Hill, Three Stooges, even Three's Company and Too Close For Comfort could be interesting to view again once in a while.
Meant to add too that the new KCET logo easily beats when SciFi changed over to SyFy this past summer (which I only read about on the internet since I don't have cable or satellite TV).... To paraphrase The Simpsons comic book guy...
ReplyDelete"Stupidest. Re-branding. Ever."
(...imo, of course.)
Sorry, Just want to add that I looked closer and see there's a page listing AntennaTV affiliates across the counry. In L.A. it's KTLA 5.2, no cable channel. Looks like maybe a little more than half the cities will have both over-the-air and cable sources, but many will just be truly "Antenna TV." (Which I kind of like as a concept... it's retro in this modern age!)
ReplyDeleteI do wonder how edited the shows will be because over the years advertising breaks have gotten much bigger and those older shows didn't originally allow near as much room for that. I know in watching other shows in years past I could occasionally remember a joke coming in a scene, only to find it had been completely excised! That's a bummer when it happens.
Oh well, enough about Antenna TV. I have no stake in it, but am curious about it and also thought it might be of some interest to you and your fellow TV-ish types there just as a "see what else is happening in the TV landscape in 2011" kind of thing.
Dim Skip: That reminds me of KDOC, which is totally retro. My son learned everything from that channel.
ReplyDeleteI will have to try to see if we get 5.2 on our cable channels.
Thanks and a Happy New Year to you and yours.
"I will have to try to see if we get 5.2 on our cable channels.
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Well, the affiliates page I linked to specifically does NOT list a cable channel for the L.A. area while it does list such for many other cities. Doesn't mean it can't be wrong or have changed at some point and just not been updated yet, of course. Also doesn't mean it can't yet change in the near future. But based on current info near as I can tell I doubt you'll find it without an old-fashioned antenna hookup.
As I write this I just turned the TV on and tuned to 17.2 to find there's actual moving pictures now! Unfortunately, though inevitably these days, it's all ads so far. On-screen guide just says "no progran information." May just be all ads/PSAs right now for all I can tell. Previously it was just a single still image reminiscent of the old "technical difficulties, please stand by" screens of yore, but announcing that programming was "coming soon" (without actually definitizing the phrase).
Ads finally finished and it looks like an episode (or promo) of Married, With Children is on. There's a huge "bug"/logo in the lower right corner showing an AntennaTV tower and saying, again, "coming soon."
OK, looks like sample program snippets being used as promos for their programming. Now they're showing a bit of The Partridge Family. There's no voiceovers, just scenes from shows interspersed with a general announcement that the channel starts New Years Day (tomorrow, of course). Plus some regular ads. Father Knows Best snippet now. Three's Company snippet.
In addition to other hoped-for shows I listed earlier, wouldn't mind seeing The Beverly Hillibillies, Get Smart, and The Dick Van Dyke Show added to their lineup at some point either.
Anyway, it's not a big deal revelation, but for me it could be a fairly useful alternative channel seeing as how the rest of regular TV has degraded so much in recent years in terms of programming I like. And frankly, I've seen numerous cable channels at other folks' homes and there's still not much of interest for me, certainly not nearly enough to justify the cost.
(Looks like the same handful of show snippets repeating now.)
It's on server and they just run it over and over. Not hard to do. :-)
ReplyDeleteBy the way, you touched on a related subject that I seem to know a lot more about, then I did 6 weeks ago. You need to give the listing services 6 weeks notice of what you are airing, to see it on your TV or your DVR. We didn't have stuff together in that time frame, so I think most of what we air in January (and probably February) will be TBA). They hand key the stuff in and they need that amount of time, especially when you are new and not a network.