Woohoo! A Sinclair Update.

[Joseph S]

Oh, come on did you actually think this would be good news?

WVTV now has 6 more months until 7/2003. What a commitment to the Milwaukee market as well as the rest of the country.

[borghe]

I don't even know what to say anymore.. I would love to completely boycott both POS stations except that there are three shows across the two that I watch (Enterprise, Everwood, and Smallville). I have tried communicating with both stations over the past year to no avail. What are we left to do. We are literally powerless. I guess the only thing left to say is that I am absolutely appalled that the FCC granted them the extension, and a six month one at that.

Whatever. I guess as long as we are only the measly viewers of the stations we have no real power.  :bang:

[techguy1975]

Whatever. I guess as long as we are only the measly viewers of the stations we have no real power.  :bang: [/B]

Perhaps if we orgainized some kind of petition or something, that might get more notice than a few irrate calls/emails.  Obviously, they dont see the transistion as something important, and are only going along because they have to.  

A well drafted, eliquient, non-abrasive, but direct letter stating the publics dismay toward their lack of respect to the viewing public might light a fire under someones ass at Sinclair.

I'm not volunteering to write such a letter, but I will sign it.

[borghe]

I personally don't even care anymore. I mean I do, and I will sign a letter, but it has been Sinclair's stance from the beginning that they are against the DTV transition.

"Hey guys, we know everyone else agreed on 8VSB, but we want a different standard instead"

"Boohoo.. We have so many TV stations making us truckloads of money that we don't possibly know how we are going to upgrade the all."

"We are sending 480p upconverts out of most of our stations because the public can't notice the difference."

...and too many more to even say. Whatever. I admit defeat. The last straw was thinking for sure that the FCC would fine them for not making it on time, but instead the FCC just gave them an additional 14 months. Ugghh..

I guess I just don't know what to do besides shake my head. And give a heartfelt thank you to the broadcasting employees who read these forums whose stations have actually transitioned already. Just take comfort guys in knowing that the vast majority of my TV watching occurs on your stations. Sinclair gets three hours a week from me. Unless anyone wants to start recording Smallville and Everwood to D-VHS and send them to me in which case I would just drop 18 and 24 all together. (I could actually live without Enterprise)

[mcq]

Ditto to Borghe.... I never watch either station, so I really don't care.  However my dirty little secret is that I never watched CBS 58 before and during my self-imposed boycott.... Since they went HiDef, I manage to watch CBS as often as possible, especially CSI.

[kjnorman]

Sinclair stations?  Could not care....

The only thing I see on their stations are the "Everybody Loves Raymond" reruns on WB18 that my wife is watching as I get home from work.  

As for UPN24, that disappeared into the static void about a year ago and we have not watched it since.

In fact I do not care about most TV programming these days.  
Alias is getting increasing silly, 24 has got just plain dumb, West Wing is getting hard to understand at times, SciFi killed off Farscape and everything else is just a reworked legal, medical or cop show.

Perhaps I am getting dissillusioned with it all.  

At least Scrubs is funny and Junkyard Wars appeals to my engineering nature.

[Gregg Lengling]

Kerry what do you mean SciFi killed off FarScape....a new season just started a couple weeks ago...Fridays at 7:00 pm followed by a new season of Stargate SG1 at 8:00 pm.....

[kjnorman]

My understanding was that SciFi had agreed to produce the series on for a season 4 and a season 5, so the plot lines were workout with that in mind.

Then after SciFi's new management took power, they decided halfway through season 4 that they would not do season 5 and so this current season (this being season 4) will be the last.  Not sure how it is going to end, but its not quite going to be the way the writers intended.

I also though that this is not a new season and just a continuation of season 4.  Ususally there are about 22 or 24 episodes to a season.  I think there is something like 7 left of season 4 then its bye bye Farscape.

Of course I could be wrong and this could have changed as there has been a huge protest against SciFi channel from Farscape fans....  Check out savefarscape.com to see.

I'll have to check the latest on this, when I get some time.  Now I really must do some work..

[John L]

I'm sure that if Gaylord Broadcasting hadn't sold WVTV back in  1994, today they certainly would have DTV ch. 61 on the air now, and it also would be a CBS-TV network station as well.  However at the time WITI-TV announced in spring of 1994 of switching to the Fox Network, at the sametime Sinclair was in the process of purchasing WVTV from Gaylord Broadcasting.

John L.