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Weigel Launching Story Television Network on March 28, 2022


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I guess since Weigel has a DFW presence (KAZD), and enough channel room (4 right now), they'll probably have Story TV there.  Will be good to have a docu-series choice without a lot of the reality fluff.

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Announcing the channel is fine, but we're not going to be speculating about what stations will carry it. Please.

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Excited to watch World War II in HD in beautiful compressed standard definition 480i. 😂

 

On a more serious note, glad that History's archive is finding a good broadcast home. As A+E goes even more into reality, these libraries seriously need to be exploited more and air somewhere rather than being stuck in the late night hours.

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11 hours ago, 24994J said:

Announcing the channel is fine, but we're not going to be speculating about what stations will carry it. Please.

Sorry, I forgot all about the Speculatron thread, I just wanted to provide something of my own in addition to posting a link to, & quoting, the site. Thanks for the correction anyway.

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22 hours ago, mrschimpf said:

Excited to watch World War II in HD in beautiful compressed standard definition 480i. 😂

 

Yeah, that's going to be a drawback. I wonder if their affiliates will be able to make arrangements with local cable systems to provide HD feeds.

 

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1 minute ago, mre29 said:

 

Yeah, that's going to be a drawback. I wonder if their affiliates will be able to make arrangements with local cable systems to provide HD feeds.

 

 

You act as if cable and broadcast industries have a close and positive relationship, not one based on liquidating the consumer's assets for retransmission fees.

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11 hours ago, Yankees4life said:

Eh...there's already a diginet like this in QUEST. I don't see the demand for this but I guess that's one more diginet for cordcutters to watch 🤷‍♂️

 

I hope you also don't see the demand for the dozens of diginets that re-air old sitcoms, dramas, and movies. MeTV, AntennaTV, Cozi, Retro TV, Decades, GetTV, Movies!, This TV, etc.

 

I don't have a Tegna-owned station in my area, so I can't get Quest. I do, however, have two Hearst-owned stations, so Xfinity gives us two MeTVs, right next to each other.

 

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14 hours ago, Yankees4life said:

Eh...there's already a diginet like this in QUEST. I don't see the demand for this but I guess that's one more diginet for cordcutters to watch 🤷‍♂️

Quest is more of History's current content direction like "Ax Men", "Ice Road Truckers" and "Shipping Wars", while Story seems to intend to draw from the 1995-05 library more before A&E decided to go all-in on reality. At least with Weigel, they seem to prefer to build networks which draw from niche and broad interests and a solid scheduling strategy, and not just take libraries without real theming.

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On 3/26/2022 at 12:58 PM, CLETVFan said:

No affiliate right now in Cleveland, so it looks like W27EA-D might likely be the destination.

Diginets don’t need an affiliation in every market. 

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Frndly TV added Story TV today as well as MeTV.  H&I, Decades, and Start TV will be added later in April.  Frndly TV is available starting at 6.99 a month.

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