WeatherNation WIWN 68-1 lip sync

[beeper]

Has anyone told WIWN 68-1 how far off their lip sync is?

Has been a chronic issue for quite a while.

Does anyone even watch WIWN?

[LoadStar]

Has anyone told WIWN 68-1 how far off their lip sync is?

Has been a chronic issue for quite a while.

Does anyone even watch WIWN?

I try to get it in, but apparently my antenna isn't good enough.

[beeper]

The chronic lip sync issue seems to have been resolved.

[beeper]

I try to get it in, but apparently my antenna isn't good enough.

WIWN is lower power and on RF 5 so it needs an efficient VHF antenna.
I have a roof top UHF/VHF antenna and get it no problem, but I'm just at the Western County line.

I do have one TV with rabbit ears and it receives the weak signal but a scrambled picture.

[beeper]

The lip sync issue on WIWN has returned.

[Jack 1000]

The lip sync issue on WIWN has returned.

TWC adds it next month, (Channel 68 in SD/1068 in HD.)

WTMJ's "Storm Track" (formerly in TWC channel 999) was not a part of TWC's new agreement with Journal Broadcasting and was dropped.  Weather Channel isn't even weather anymore, at least not like it was in the past.

Jack

[mrschimpf]

Pappas, which has been in wind-down mode for years under a bankruptcy trust, is selling WIWN to a company known as "Caballero Acquisition" for $1.8 million.

They mainly own a bunch of low-power do-nothing MTV Tres stations in California and Texas Viacom unloaded in one of their convoluted 'buy out a competing network and gut them for ours' schemes, but hopefully outside of adding a couple of subchannels, probably won't remove WeatherNation since Tres is already on cable market-wide and running a budding full-power operation is a lot different than little LP's simulcasting re-dubbed MTV programs.

[Weeters]

Pappas, which has been in wind-down mode for years under a bankruptcy trust, is selling WIWN to a company known as "Caballero Acquisition" for $1.8 million.

They mainly own a bunch of low-power do-nothing MTV Tres stations in California and Texas Viacom unloaded in one of their convoluted 'buy out a competing network and gut them for ours' schemes, but hopefully outside of adding a couple of subchannels, probably won't remove WeatherNation since Tres is already on cable market-wide and running a budding full-power operation is a lot different than little LP's simulcasting re-dubbed MTV programs.

Can someone explain how this channel is worth $1.8 million? Pappas certainly came out ahead on that one. I can't imagine it cost more than a fairly nice car to build this station (I've heard of low power operations that have actual programming being built for under $50k). They don't own their own tower and they don't have studio facilities. There's probably a computer or two sitting in a rack at the transmitter doing everything autonomously.

[LoadStar]

Can someone explain how this channel is worth $1.8 million? Pappas certainly came out ahead on that one. I can't imagine it cost more than a fairly nice car to build this station (I've heard of low power operations that have actual programming being built for under $50k). They don't own their own tower and they don't have studio facilities. There's probably a computer or two sitting in a rack at the transmitter doing everything autonomously.

Full-power broadcast frequencies are a limited resource.

There's also the upcoming incentive auction that make these frequencies even more valuable. I would actually expect that the auction is the *only* reason that Caballero wants the channel. I don't expect they'll do anything with the channel at all  - they'll probably just have it continuing to air WeatherNation or some other automated programming until the auction.