WYFF New channel?

[Austin Tripp 0]

A friend pointed out to me that WYFF has a new channel on the air. It's WYFF-SC 4.3. The channel doesn't have any programming besides color bars. Anyone in Upstate SC know what this channel will be?

 

[DENDude 224]

I Would think maybe True Crime Network or H&I (Heroes & Icons), those seem to be  the big sub channel affiliations that Hearst has for most of there stations.  WYFF is already carrying MeTV.  

With that said--let us know what pops up on that channel. 

[TheRyan 560]

I find it interesting they use -SC.  Could it be a sub-channel focused on South Carolina somehow?

[ABC 7 Denver 1741]

2 hours ago, TheRyan said:

I find it interesting they use -SC.  Could it be a sub-channel focused on South Carolina somehow?

Or -SC means, bear with me now, Sub-Channel.

[tyrannical bastard 4084]

Looking around at the Hearst stations on RabbitEars.info, It looks like WDSU and WLWT have picked up ShopLC.

Many of their stations still only have one subchannel, so this could be one of those channel-leasing deals to make some more $$$$$$. 

 

 

[nathannah 2535]

17 minutes ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Many of their stations still only have one subchannel, so this could be one of those channel-leasing deals to make some more $$$$$$. 

I don't have a problem with it if they only have one other subchannel (all of them otherwise have MeTV); it's never going to be promoted on the station itself, it'll be bit-starved to a contractual minimum, and they get money for it, and usually it can't get carried on cable because ShopeLC already buys five channel slots on a lineup there too. In these times, just take the money rather than packing the regular DT1 schedule with infomercial festivals.

[Yankees4life 565]

4 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Looking around at the Hearst stations on RabbitEars.info, It looks like WDSU and WLWT have picked up ShopLC.

Many of their stations still only have one subchannel, so this could be one of those channel-leasing deals to make some more $$$$$$. 

 

 

Yep. Sounds about right. I guess Hearst needed the money...

[AJClementeFan69 477]

3 hours ago, mrschimpf said:

I don't have a problem with it if they only have one other subchannel (all of them otherwise have MeTV); it's never going to be promoted on the station itself, it'll be bit-starved to a contractual minimum, and they get money for it, and usually it can't get carried on cable because ShopeLC already buys five channel slots on a lineup there too. In these times, just take the money rather than packing the regular DT1 schedule with infomercial festivals.

 

Yep, it's a smart business move. If you've got the channel space, might as well put it to use if you can make some money off it.

 

[DirtyHarry 745]

I noticed the local Daystar station has Daystar-es-ES for Espanol.

[nathannah 2535]

WISN in Milwaukee picked up Shop LC on 12.3 today...they did note it on a newscast, which is how I found out.

[kfc513 245]

ShopLC went live on WLWT 5.3 as of Friday, April 30.

[Austin Tripp 0]

UPDATE:

its a shopping channel

[TWCKodster 0]

Hey, I am a super fan off WYFF and NBC and have finally figured out what is being aired on WYFF 4.3. So much for them using it to provide weather or more news...

[TheSpeedKing 270]

On 5/3/2021 at 7:30 AM, kfc513 said:

ShopLC went live on WLWT 5.3 as of Friday, April 30.

Wow. They absolutely know how to use bandwidth correctly. Got a 1080i? A 720p? Both? A 480i on top of that? Here's the solution: Add. More. Subchannels.

[nathannah 2535]

4 hours ago, TheSpeedKing said:

Wow. They absolutely know how to use bandwidth correctly. Got a 1080i? A 720p? Both? A 480i on top of that? Here's the solution: Add. More. Subchannels.

I expected it to be bit-starved because of hosting WSTR's 1.0 signal...but it actually uses more bandwidth than the MeTV sub on 5.2, same with WISN. You'd think a channel which consists mainly of still graphics and mainly still close-ups of jewelry wouldn't need so much bandwidth (WISN thankfully has a 12 Mbps picture on the main channel).

 

[kfc513 245]

On 5/3/2021 at 7:30 AM, kfc513 said:

ShopLC went live on WLWT 5.3 as of Friday, April 30.

 

...and now they're getting rid of it.

 

WLWT is running a crawl on there saying that they will stop carrying ShopLC on April 30th, exactly one year later.

 

[Route66Fan 77]

3 hours ago, kfc513 said:

 

...and now they're getting rid of it.

 

WLWT is running a crawl on there saying that they will stop carrying ShopLC on April 30th, exactly one year later.

 

They're probably replacing it with Story TV.

[susquvalleywgal 524]

1 hour ago, Route66Fan said:

They're probably replacing it with Story TV.

 

WGAL has Story TV on 8.4 and I must admit it is a pretty good channel.  Heavy on documentaries.

 

-- Matt

[LexTVandRadio 418]

On 3/14/2021 at 3:58 AM, AJClementeFan69 said:

 

Yep, it's a smart business move. If you've got the channel space, might as well put it to use if you can make some money off it.

 

Unless you are Morris, you don't have the space, but do it anyways. Hard to watch sports on ABC here in Lexington. I am waiting on a 36.9

 

[TheRob 940]

I happened to catch Story TV late last night (now on KMBC's .3), and they were airing the "end of the world" stuff that appeared on the History Channel 10-12 years ago. After Armageddon, Mayan Mystery and so on...

[kfc513 245]

21 hours ago, Route66Fan said:

They're probably replacing it with Story TV.

 

WLWT already has it on 5.4, but that could be a possibility.

 

[tylerSC 66]

On 4/24/2022 at 5:59 AM, kfc513 said:

 

...and now they're getting rid of it.

 

WLWT is running a crawl on there saying that they will stop carrying ShopLC on April 30th, exactly one year later.

 

ShopLC has also been dropped from WYFF 4.3, after one year. Apparently the contract ran out and Hearst did not renew. However Story remains on 4.4, but 4.3 has disappeared.