MPTV Does It Again

[Stanley Kritzik]

So, until next week, 36-1 is carrying an American version of BBC World News at 6:00 PM for 1/2 hour; a good program.  Next week, though, the program is moving to 10:00 PM.  I'm sure they will lose much or most of their audience, and the BBC World News is/was pretty darn informative and good.

As for me, in self-defense, since I don't want to watch the "evening news" in the dead of night, I'm switching to the BBC World channel, which is #264 on DirecTV.  The program is longer -- one hour -- it has commercials -- but it is World News, and it comes on at 6:00 PM for an hour.

It's hard for me to keep up with or understand the screwy gyrations by MPTV, but they sure aren't doing the public a great service.  If we can't get a few evening news services from MPTV, where are they going to come from?  We understand the actions of the commercial networks, but MPTV should do better than they're doing.

Stan

[Avid MPTV Fan]

In truth, BBC America will not allow MPTV to carry the show at its broadcast times on the BBC cable channel, one of which is 6 p.m. There is a restriction on the times MPTV can show it.
 
The distributor changed from WLIW to KCET, Los Angeles beginning in October, but MPTV was granted a one-month grace period to keep the show at 6 p.m. and promote the time change to viewers.  The change in distributor is expected to give greater technical stability to the daily feeds, which are affected by satellite angles etc.

[Stanley Kritzik]

In truth, BBC America will not allow MPTV to carry the show at its broadcast times on the BBC cable channel, one of which is 6 p.m. There is a restriction on the times MPTV can show it.
 
The distributor changed from WLIW to KCET, Los Angeles beginning in October, but MPTV was granted a one-month grace period to keep the show at 6 p.m. and promote the time change to viewers.  The change in distributor is expected to give greater technical stability to the daily feeds, which are affected by satellite angles etc.

All this is technical trivia.  The point is that a news telecast -- regardless of circumstances -- wants to be viewed in the early evening.  Waiting around to 10:00 isn't going to produce many viewers.  They might as well just drop it, IMO.

Stan