Channel 10 Auctions on WMVS Digital 550

[Tom Snyder]

This FYI from Karen Copper:

Time Warner Digital Cable Channel 550
is airing the auction as it is happening, LIVE (until midnight or so...).

Usually, it would be running the WMVS schedule at a 3-hr. delay, but, during  the auction,  we can't broadcast on a delay, because people could then be bidding on boards that were previously closed.

After the auction is done for the day, exactly what is on Ch. 10, WMVS, is broadcast for 3 hrs., until they can get back to the 3-hr. delay (which then simply re-runs that first 3 hrs. of programming, and then continues with the regular 3-hour delay  until the Auction begins again the next day). To be safe, this timeframe would typically cover the hours of 1-4am.

When the Auction begins again, later the same day, at 1pm, it goes back to broadcasting the Auction LIVE. This scheduling pattern continues through the close of the Auction, which is expected to be sometime in the early morning hours of Sunday, May 11.

Then, after the Auction closes (usually about 1am), 3 hours later, we again revert to the normal 3-hr. delay of  WMVS.

The above also applies to the  WMVS-DT 10-1 air broadcast signal,
except when our previously-published High Definition programming pre-empts all 5 multicast programs.

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Our apologies for the after-the-fact notification.

[Skipjack]

For a minute there, I thought the auction might be in HD being on 550.

Could you imagine those Gromme prints in HD?