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| Rushman | Jun 28 2011, 02:21 PM Post #1 |
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I've been seeing your Tweets about RTV -- and I found a site that gave some information about the new programming changes, after a bit of digging around. http://blog.sitcomsonline.com/2011/06/rtv-changes-schedule-loses-universal.html Retro Television (RTV) has changed their line-up effective yesterday. We knew about the changes late last week, but we wanted to give you the FULL details, so we are bringing you that today! Their deal with Universal Pictures ended on Sunday. This means series like Leave it to Beaver, Kate & Allie, The A-Team, Knight Rider and others are no longer airing on the digital station. Now they have acquired mostly have stuff from The Peter Rodgers Organization and a few series from Sony Pictures Television. Among the new series from The Peter Rodgers Organization are a short-lived '70s drama titled Movin' On and British drama The Saint. They join other Peter Rodgers series such I Spy, The Bill Cosby Show, Daniel Boone, The Rifleman, Peter Gunn, Robin Hood and others that have been on RTV. Completely new to RTV are series from Sony Pictures Television. The series that have joined the line-up are Naked City, Route 66, Starsky & Hutch and Police Story. Also joining the schedule are Canadian dramas that currently air in broadcast syndication: DaVinci's Inquest, Cold Squad and Cold Case Files. RTV is using a national schedule now for ALL of the affiliates, unless an affiliate preempts something on its own. For example, all RTV affiliates will have Starsky & Hutch weeknights at 8pm followed by Police Story at 9pm nationwide. Joining the line-up next week (Monday, July 4) will be Highway to Heaven and it will air weeknights at 6pm. RTV couldn't get the rights to that in time for this week, so they are airing an extra hour of Daniel Boone this week, in addition to its regular 7pm airing. We will keep you up to date of any other changes and information, but for now view the FULL RTV schedule. So basically there you have it, rights, contracts, etc. expiring, as is the norm for any place, any where, that offers up classic content (much like gametap.com losing their Sega and Capcom games due to contracts running out) Plus, from other sites I've seen, expect more "reality" fare on RTV weekends (what else) for the company behind RTV also runs a "family" type of digital sub-network. I get RTV on WFLA 8.2 in Tampa. I wish we could get Antenna TV here. Our Fox station has NO digital subchannels whatsoever, it would be great for there. Then again, we'd also need a Tribune-owned station as well... Edited by Rushman, Jun 28 2011, 02:23 PM.
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