If it aint broke, don't fix it. CFCF's current studio is the best one in the
CTV network, thanks to it being the old Pulse studio (I think). It actually
looks like a news set, unlike what other CTV stations use.



But I don't mind the Toronto design. Vancouver and Halifax are okay, and I
can stand Sudbury. The new Edmonton one isn't as bad as the one on CKCO,
CJOH, and others.





   _____

From: TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com [mailto:TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
mediacan
Sent: January 29, 2006 10:18 PM
To: TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [TVinMtl] CTV Montreal to get new studio?



Noticed tonight's newscast was from the news room... Possibly a hint
that new studios are on their way? Will they be the same as the
Edmonton and Toronto local designs? Guess we'll just have to wait and
see...



[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Welcome to the group!

Vermont is a super nice place.


--- In TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com, "jetblueairways00"
<cellularprofessional@g...> wrote:
>
> I think that the CW will go to WGMU, as they've carried upn full
> time before.
>  Yes, their coverage is inferior, but not by THAT much. I heard
that
> CW is going to try to doaway with secondary affiliates if possible.
>
> PS: My first post here, I'm in VT.
> -A
>
> --- In TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com, "hattonandco" <hattonandco@y...>
> wrote:
> >
> > It think its the potential new newscast at Fox 44 that may put
The
> WB/CW Time in jeopardy
> > and not so much WGMU-CA.
> >
> > Note that the WB has rejected WWBI-LP in as a potential affiliate
> the past because of their
> > low-power status and WGMU-CA used to be the local WB until they
> were dropped in favor
> > of Fox 44. Fox 44 reaches more local viewers at 10 PM than the
low-
> power stations in
> > prime time.
> >
> > But I guess only time will tell which of the two stations will
> become part of The CW unless
> > someone out there has any inside info the could share with us.
> >
> > FYI: just in case you're wondering, superstations WPIX and KTLA
> have already been
> > confirmed as CW affiliates, according to Tribune TV. (See link)
> >
> > http://www.tribune.com/pressroom/releases/2006/01242006.html
> >
> > --- In TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com, "Jay LaRochelle"
> <mjlarochelle@s...> wrote:
> > >
> > > In a surprise announcement today, UPN and WB are merging into a
> new network,
> > > to be known as CW, which stands for CBS/Warner.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > This naturally brings up the question of how
> Burlington/Plattsburgh will be
> > > affected. Since programming from both UPN and WB will be on CW,
> I don't see
> > > FOX 44 having "CW Time". That leaves WGMU-CA to take on CW.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> > >
> >
>

Their current set is the one they brought over from Ogilvy ave. If
the work is only being done over this weekend, it's probably just
some superficial stuff they are doing, perhaps they are putting in a
new anchor desk or something.

If CTV's next step really is to make all the local newscasts have the
same set, then Lloyd Robertson robotic clones must be in the planning
stages.



--- In TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com, "Jay LaRochelle" <mjlarochelle@s...>
wrote:
>
> If it aint broke, don't fix it. CFCF's current studio is the best
one in the
> CTV network, thanks to it being the old Pulse studio (I think). It
actually
> looks like a news set, unlike what other CTV stations use.
>
>
>
> But I don't mind the Toronto design. Vancouver and Halifax are
okay, and I
> can stand Sudbury. The new Edmonton one isn't as bad as the one on
CKCO,
> CJOH, and others.
>
>
>
>
>
>   _____
>
> From: TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com [mailto:TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of
> mediacan
> Sent: January 29, 2006 10:18 PM
> To: TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [TVinMtl] CTV Montreal to get new studio?
>
>
>
> Noticed tonight's newscast was from the news room... Possibly a hint
> that new studios are on their way? Will they be the same as the
> Edmonton and Toronto local designs? Guess we'll just have to wait
and
> see...
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

--- In TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com, "tv_dude2002" <tv_dude2002@y...> wrote:
>
> Their current set is the one they brought over from Ogilvy ave. If
> the work is only being done over this weekend, it's probably just
> some superficial stuff they are doing, perhaps they are putting in a
> new anchor desk or something.
>

It's probably the 1995ish studio.

Seems that it turned out to be a new desk, a few backround thingys, and
some new monitors. No Lloyd clones as of yet.

--- In TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com, "****LJV-Borg****" <zee103dot5@y...>
wrote:
>
> --- In TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com, "tv_dude2002" <tv_dude2002@y...>
wrote:
> >
> > Their current set is the one they brought over from Ogilvy ave. If
> > the work is only being done over this weekend, it's probably just
> > some superficial stuff they are doing, perhaps they are putting in
a
> > new anchor desk or something.
> >
>
> It's probably the 1995ish studio.
>

Could they increase the power now that they're owned by Equity
Broadcasting, and become a CW station?

The new desk is not bad, although they may have over did it with the bright
lighting. It
looks like something a bartender would stand behind at a club.

--- In TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com, "tv_dude2002" <tv_dude2002@y...> wrote:
>
> Seems that it turned out to be a new desk, a few backround thingys, and
> some new monitors. No Lloyd clones as of yet.
>
> --- In TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com, "****LJV-Borg****" <zee103dot5@y...>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com, "tv_dude2002" <tv_dude2002@y...>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Their current set is the one they brought over from Ogilvy ave. If
> > > the work is only being done over this weekend, it's probably just
> > > some superficial stuff they are doing, perhaps they are putting in
> a
> > > new anchor desk or something.
> > >
> >
> > It's probably the 1995ish studio.
> >
>

--- In TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com, "****LJV-Borg****" <zee103dot5@y...>
wrote:
>
> Could they increase the power now that they're owned by Equity
> Broadcasting, and become a CW station?

Maybe WGMU-CA could change its calls to WVCW-CA.

It's a very "loud" set. Kind of the sci-fi look. I really don't know
what was wrong with the old one, it looked pretty sharp.

--- In TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com, "hattonandco" <hattonandco@y...>
wrote:
>
> The new desk is not bad, although they may have over did it with
the bright lighting. It
> looks like something a bartender would stand behind at a club.
>
> --- In TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com, "tv_dude2002" <tv_dude2002@y...>
wrote:
> >
> > Seems that it turned out to be a new desk, a few backround
thingys, and
> > some new monitors. No Lloyd clones as of yet.
> >
> > --- In TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com, "****LJV-Borg****"
<zee103dot5@y...>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com, "tv_dude2002"
<tv_dude2002@y...>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Their current set is the one they brought over from Ogilvy
ave. If
> > > > the work is only being done over this weekend, it's probably
just
> > > > some superficial stuff they are doing, perhaps they are
putting in
> > a
> > > > new anchor desk or something.
> > > >
> > >
> > > It's probably the 1995ish studio.
> > >
> >
>

Only see it on the main network so far, old one still appears on CH and
and Prime. Haven't seen the other stations as of yet. No biggie
anyway...

Noticed that RFO showed the game feed with no commercials.

Note I will be taping much of the Torino Olympics, while I watch only
the CBC's coverage on ch. 6 on the antenna.  However, since I've got
digital & regular cable, I will be taping additional coverage on the
antenna-based TV, and the cable-based TV.

Global National moving to new timeslot

By BILL BRIOUX -- Toronto Sun

Kevin Newman will check in at 5:30 with Global National. (David
Lucas, Sun)
Canadians tend to switch allegiances with their nightly newscasts
about as infrequently as they switch federal political parties. For
Global's Kevin Newman, the mood to choose change can't come at a
better time.

Global is betting that the 46-year-old former CBC and ABC newsman can
connect with the next generation of Canadian news consumers. After
four-and-a-half years as the face of Global National, Newman says
they've got the right newscast. Now they just have to fix the hour.

It's a step they take today as, for the first time all across the
country, Global National With Kevin Newman relocates to 5:30 p.m.,
leading directly into local newscasts (such as Toronto's steadily
building Global News Hour With Leslie Roberts now on at 6 p.m.).

This new bit of Global positioning is the latest assault in Canada's
highly competitive news wars. Shortly after the federal election, CTV
and CBC ran full page ads in newspapers across the country
proclaiming election night wins.

"CBC's numbers were the right ones, to be honest," says Newman, who
was in Toronto last week (Global National is based in Vancouver). He
pointed out that CTV's ever-skewered spin included Newsnet viewers
but didn't count CBC Newsworld. Regional viewers who caught Global's
election night coverage on various CH stations were also discounted.

"If you level the playing field, we were third, but just by about
125,000 viewers," says Newman.


Long considered also-rans, Global National now ranks as Canada's No.
2 newscast and is in fact dominant west of Ontario. The surprise is
that CTV News isn't further ahead given their advantage in number of
stations plus the wide lead they enjoy in prime time with 10 p.m.
hits like ER and Grey's Anatomy.

Still, news audiences are as entrenched as glaciers. Could there be a
Global warming?

Newman figures it takes 10 years to turn around viewing habits. In
four-and-a-half years at the helm of Global National, he's tried to
provide an alternative newscast, one that is a little jazzier, more
in tune with the Jon Stewart generation.

He believes that younger viewers are getting much of their daily news
from comedians like Stewart. "I think what Jon Stewart has done is
given us the ability to say, when things are ridiculous, that this is
a little crazy," says Newman, who has tried to work that tone into
his newscasts. "I think that's the true power of him."

Newman says he doesn't have much time to watch the competition and,
besides, "you don't win in the long term by trying to ape anybody,"
he says. "You have to define what the next thing is and then work at
it for 10 years so that when the demographic changes, when the
loyalties begin to pull apart, you're whole and you're different
enough that people go, 'Oh, okay, there you are.'"

It doesn't hurt that Newman is more than a generation younger than
his main news rival. CTV's Lloyd Robertson turned 72 last month.
CBC's Peter Mansbridge is 57.

In the U.S., after 20 years of Rather/Jennings/Brokaw, all three
major networks have recently switched to younger anchors. There's
talk of reinventing network news and getting away from the one
anchor, voice of God approach that dates back to Edward R. Murrow and
Walter Cronkite.

Newman isn't so sure that will work. He wonders about ABC's
experiment with dual anchors Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff
(already at risk with Woodruff's serious injuries in Iraq last week).
The advantage of a sole anchor, he feels, is that they protect and
personalize the news. "Those broadcasts succeed when people know the
anchor and feel the anchor is connected to the content," he says.

Getting the news out of its hemorrhoid ad rut and in front of younger
eyeballs is also crucial, says Newman, who notes that the average age
of a U.S. network news viewer is 63. He's all for iPod, cellphone and
broadband news streaming. "Getting to be in the Top-25 in iTunes
really matters," he says. "If we're not figuring out how to reach
these people, we're failing."

As for the earlier, 5:30 hour (his competitors air at 10 p.m. and 11
p.m.), Newman says its a good fit. "We're never going to be the
newscast for the elite, but my style's probably more comfortable with
that anyway," he says. He'll take the crowd coming home from work,
even if he has to stand on his head to get them. "I'm a little more
energetic, too," he says. "People are moving then. At 10 and 11,
they're not. You have to actually go, 'Hey, come over here.'"

Speaking of age, how old are Haughland and Britt? I figure the former
must be in his mid-sixties, and I remember reading that the latter
past sixty about a decade ago, although I may be wrong. If Britt is
pushing 70, he looks fantastic for a man of his age, that's for
sure...

--- In TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com, "tv_dude2002" <tv_dude2002@...> wrote:
>
> Global National moving to new timeslot
>
> By BILL BRIOUX -- Toronto Sun
>
> Kevin Newman will check in at 5:30 with Global National. (David
> Lucas, Sun)
> Canadians tend to switch allegiances with their nightly newscasts
> about as infrequently as they switch federal political parties. For
> Global's Kevin Newman, the mood to choose change can't come at a
> better time.
>
> Global is betting that the 46-year-old former CBC and ABC newsman
can
> connect with the next generation of Canadian news consumers. After
> four-and-a-half years as the face of Global National, Newman says
> they've got the right newscast. Now they just have to fix the hour.
>
> It's a step they take today as, for the first time all across the
> country, Global National With Kevin Newman relocates to 5:30 p.m.,
> leading directly into local newscasts (such as Toronto's steadily
> building Global News Hour With Leslie Roberts now on at 6 p.m.).
>
> This new bit of Global positioning is the latest assault in
Canada's
> highly competitive news wars. Shortly after the federal election,
CTV
> and CBC ran full page ads in newspapers across the country
> proclaiming election night wins.
>
> "CBC's numbers were the right ones, to be honest," says Newman, who
> was in Toronto last week (Global National is based in Vancouver).
He
> pointed out that CTV's ever-skewered spin included Newsnet viewers
> but didn't count CBC Newsworld. Regional viewers who caught
Global's
> election night coverage on various CH stations were also
discounted.
>
> "If you level the playing field, we were third, but just by about
> 125,000 viewers," says Newman.
>
>
> Long considered also-rans, Global National now ranks as Canada's
No.
> 2 newscast and is in fact dominant west of Ontario. The surprise is
> that CTV News isn't further ahead given their advantage in number
of
> stations plus the wide lead they enjoy in prime time with 10 p.m.
> hits like ER and Grey's Anatomy.
>
> Still, news audiences are as entrenched as glaciers. Could there be
a
> Global warming?
>
> Newman figures it takes 10 years to turn around viewing habits. In
> four-and-a-half years at the helm of Global National, he's tried to
> provide an alternative newscast, one that is a little jazzier, more
> in tune with the Jon Stewart generation.
>
> He believes that younger viewers are getting much of their daily
news
> from comedians like Stewart. "I think what Jon Stewart has done is
> given us the ability to say, when things are ridiculous, that this
is
> a little crazy," says Newman, who has tried to work that tone into
> his newscasts. "I think that's the true power of him."
>
> Newman says he doesn't have much time to watch the competition and,
> besides, "you don't win in the long term by trying to ape anybody,"
> he says. "You have to define what the next thing is and then work
at
> it for 10 years so that when the demographic changes, when the
> loyalties begin to pull apart, you're whole and you're different
> enough that people go, 'Oh, okay, there you are.'"
>
> It doesn't hurt that Newman is more than a generation younger than
> his main news rival. CTV's Lloyd Robertson turned 72 last month.
> CBC's Peter Mansbridge is 57.
>
> In the U.S., after 20 years of Rather/Jennings/Brokaw, all three
> major networks have recently switched to younger anchors. There's
> talk of reinventing network news and getting away from the one
> anchor, voice of God approach that dates back to Edward R. Murrow
and
> Walter Cronkite.
>
> Newman isn't so sure that will work. He wonders about ABC's
> experiment with dual anchors Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff
> (already at risk with Woodruff's serious injuries in Iraq last
week).
> The advantage of a sole anchor, he feels, is that they protect and
> personalize the news. "Those broadcasts succeed when people know
the
> anchor and feel the anchor is connected to the content," he says.
>
> Getting the news out of its hemorrhoid ad rut and in front of
younger
> eyeballs is also crucial, says Newman, who notes that the average
age
> of a U.S. network news viewer is 63. He's all for iPod, cellphone
and
> broadband news streaming. "Getting to be in the Top-25 in iTunes
> really matters," he says. "If we're not figuring out how to reach
> these people, we're failing."
>
> As for the earlier, 5:30 hour (his competitors air at 10 p.m. and
11
> p.m.), Newman says its a good fit. "We're never going to be the
> newscast for the elite, but my style's probably more comfortable
with
> that anyway," he says. He'll take the crowd coming home from work,
> even if he has to stand on his head to get them. "I'm a little more
> energetic, too," he says. "People are moving then. At 10 and 11,
> they're not. You have to actually go, 'Hey, come over here.'"
>

--- In TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com, "tv_dude2002" <tv_dude2002@...> wrote:
>
> Global National moving to new timeslot
>
> By BILL BRIOUX -- Toronto Sun
>
> Kevin Newman will check in at 5:30 with Global National. (David
> Lucas, Sun)
> Canadians tend to switch allegiances with their nightly newscasts
> about as infrequently as they switch federal political parties. For
> Global's Kevin Newman, the mood to choose change can't come at a
> better time.
>
> Global is betting that the 46-year-old former CBC and ABC newsman can
> connect with the next generation of Canadian news consumers. After
> four-and-a-half years as the face of Global National, Newman says
> they've got the right newscast. Now they just have to fix the hour.
>
> It's a step they take today as, for the first time all across the
> country, Global National With Kevin Newman relocates to 5:30 p.m.,
> leading directly into local newscasts (such as Toronto's steadily
> building Global News Hour With Leslie Roberts now on at 6 p.m.).
>
> This new bit of Global positioning is the latest assault in Canada's
> highly competitive news wars. Shortly after the federal election, CTV
> and CBC ran full page ads in newspapers across the country
> proclaiming election night wins.
>
> "CBC's numbers were the right ones, to be honest," says Newman, who
> was in Toronto last week (Global National is based in Vancouver). He
> pointed out that CTV's ever-skewered spin included Newsnet viewers
> but didn't count CBC Newsworld. Regional viewers who caught Global's
> election night coverage on various CH stations were also discounted.
>
> "If you level the playing field, we were third, but just by about
> 125,000 viewers," says Newman.
>
>
> Long considered also-rans, Global National now ranks as Canada's No.
> 2 newscast and is in fact dominant west of Ontario. The surprise is
> that CTV News isn't further ahead given their advantage in number of
> stations plus the wide lead they enjoy in prime time with 10 p.m.
> hits like ER and Grey's Anatomy.
>
> Still, news audiences are as entrenched as glaciers. Could there be a
> Global warming?
>
> Newman figures it takes 10 years to turn around viewing habits. In
> four-and-a-half years at the helm of Global National, he's tried to
> provide an alternative newscast, one that is a little jazzier, more
> in tune with the Jon Stewart generation.
>
> He believes that younger viewers are getting much of their daily news
> from comedians like Stewart. "I think what Jon Stewart has done is
> given us the ability to say, when things are ridiculous, that this is
> a little crazy," says Newman, who has tried to work that tone into
> his newscasts. "I think that's the true power of him."
>
> Newman says he doesn't have much time to watch the competition and,
> besides, "you don't win in the long term by trying to ape anybody,"
> he says. "You have to define what the next thing is and then work at
> it for 10 years so that when the demographic changes, when the
> loyalties begin to pull apart, you're whole and you're different
> enough that people go, 'Oh, okay, there you are.'"
>
> It doesn't hurt that Newman is more than a generation younger than
> his main news rival. CTV's Lloyd Robertson turned 72 last month.
> CBC's Peter Mansbridge is 57.
>
> In the U.S., after 20 years of Rather/Jennings/Brokaw, all three
> major networks have recently switched to younger anchors. There's
> talk of reinventing network news and getting away from the one
> anchor, voice of God approach that dates back to Edward R. Murrow and
> Walter Cronkite.
>
> Newman isn't so sure that will work. He wonders about ABC's
> experiment with dual anchors Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff
> (already at risk with Woodruff's serious injuries in Iraq last week).
> The advantage of a sole anchor, he feels, is that they protect and
> personalize the news. "Those broadcasts succeed when people know the
> anchor and feel the anchor is connected to the content," he says.
>
> Getting the news out of its hemorrhoid ad rut and in front of younger
> eyeballs is also crucial, says Newman, who notes that the average age
> of a U.S. network news viewer is 63. He's all for iPod, cellphone and
> broadband news streaming. "Getting to be in the Top-25 in iTunes
> really matters," he says. "If we're not figuring out how to reach
> these people, we're failing."
>
> As for the earlier, 5:30 hour (his competitors air at 10 p.m. and 11
> p.m.), Newman says its a good fit. "We're never going to be the
> newscast for the elite, but my style's probably more comfortable with
> that anyway," he says. He'll take the crowd coming home from work,
> even if he has to stand on his head to get them. "I'm a little more
> energetic, too," he says. "People are moving then. At 10 and 11,
> they're not. You have to actually go, 'Hey, come over here.'"

What a nice move, since most newscasts air @ 6pm, and they've gotta
simulcast EVERY station with newscasts.

APPARENTly is is in the pipeline

The shock was I had thought that  global local news was coming to
5:30...............

-----Original Message-----
From: TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com [mailto:TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
tv_dude2002
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 21:55
To: TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [TVinMtl] New Global logo

Only see it on the main network so far, old one still appears on CH and and
Prime. Haven't seen the other stations as of yet. No biggie anyway...

I watch WNNE 31 down here, but don't plan on recording anything in
particular.
  If anyone wants something specific recorded, let me know.

On 2/7/06, ****LJV-Borg**** <zee103dot5@...> wrote:
>
>  Note I will be taping much of the Torino Olympics, while I watch only
> the CBC's coverage on ch. 6 on the antenna.  However, since I've got
> digital & regular cable, I will be taping additional coverage on the
> antenna-based TV, and the cable-based TV.
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Canadian cable association shutting down

OTTAWA (CP) - The Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association says
that after 50 years of representing the country's cable companies, it
is shutting its doors for good.

The announcement was made by the CCTA board of directors
Friday. "Over the past 10 years, convergence has radically changed
the nature of the cable business and there is no longer a 'one size
fits all' solution," association chairman Dean MacDonald said in a
statement.

It all began in the 1950s with community antenna television services,
but with the industry now involved in telephony, Internet and
wireless, the CCTA concluded it could no longer reflect a single
industry position on many key issues.

"It's hard to be a national voice when a major chunk of Quebec and
the West isn't there," says Michael Hennessy, CCTA president who adds
that the board will have an official vote in a couple of weeks, with
the doors closing likely by the end of the month.

"While it's a sad thing, we've been talking about the opportunities
in the future and I think, personally we see lots of them."

While at one time the association represented more than 75 carriers,
including the largest, Rogers Cable, it lost its second-biggest
member last fall when Shaw Communications, the western-based cable-
satellite-telecom giant, announced its resignation, citing "divergent
interests and differing strategic objectives."

MacDonald says the smaller cable companies will still pursue policy
and buying issues through a parallel business trade association
called the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance.

So far, I watched part of the opening ceremonies @ school, therefore I
taped the full opening ceremonies on the CBC.

A new channel called Prise 2 is currently available for free for three months.
It is sort of
like a French DejaView or TV Land. On illico it can be found on Channel 98

--- In TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com, "hattonandco" <hattonandco@...> wrote:
>
> A new channel called Prise 2 is currently available for free for
three months. It is sort of
> like a French DejaView or TV Land. On illico it can be found on
Channel 98

Some people think it's a second channel, but it's just ONE CHANNEL.

Correction: it's on channel 95 and not 98. Today they reran the pilot of Wonder
Woman.
They also have Les Brilliants and Peau de Banane. Just when you thought you'd
never see
Yves Corbeil in a sitcom again.

--- In TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com, "hattonandco" <hattonandco@...> wrote:
>
> A new channel called Prise 2 is currently available for free for three months.
It is sort of
> like a French DejaView or TV Land. On illico it can be found on Channel 98
>

--- In TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com, "hattonandco" <hattonandco@...> wrote:
>
> Correction: it's on channel 95 and not 98. Today they reran the
pilot of Wonder Woman.
> They also have Les Brilliants and Peau de Banane. Just when you
thought you'd never see
> Yves Corbeil in a sitcom again.
>
I enjoyed it, and I'm taping most classic shows on the network.

--- In TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com, "hattonandco" <hattonandco@...> wrote:
>
> A new channel called Prise 2 is currently available for free for
three months. It is sort of
> like a French DejaView or TV Land. On illico it can be found on
Channel 98
>

   Does Prise 2 have a website? Is any listings publication (TV Hebdo,
TV 7 Jours, Voila!, etc.) carrying their listings?

Website:

http://prise2.canoe.com/

Schedule:

http://prise2.canoe.com/programmation.html

I don't know if it's in any listings.

--- In TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com, "Tim Ripley" <tim_ripley@...> wrote:
>
> --- In TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com, "hattonandco" <hattonandco@> wrote:
> >
> > A new channel called Prise 2 is currently available for free for
> three months. It is sort of
> > like a French DejaView or TV Land. On illico it can be found on
> Channel 98
> >
>
>   Does Prise 2 have a website? Is any listings publication (TV Hebdo,
> TV 7 Jours, Voila!, etc.) carrying their listings?
>

So far, they didn't carry the first season of "Sunset Beach," which
all NBC stations aired.  When did they start carrying the show, during
the 1997-98 season?  I doubt it.

They also never carried Santa Barbara which is what Susnset Beach replaced on
NBC.

--- In TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com, "****LJV-Borg****" <zee103dot5@...> wrote:
>
> So far, they didn't carry the first season of "Sunset Beach," which
> all NBC stations aired.  When did they start carrying the show, during
> the 1997-98 season?  I doubt it.
>

--- In TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com, "hattonandco" <hattonandco@...> wrote:
>
> They also never carried Santa Barbara which is what Susnset Beach
replaced on NBC.
>
> --- In TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com, "****LJV-Borg****" <zee103dot5@> wrote:
> >
> > So far, they didn't carry the first season of "Sunset Beach," which
> > all NBC stations aired.  When did they start carrying the show, during
> > the 1997-98 season?  I doubt it.
> >

All Burlington/Plattsburgh TV stations were stupid, except for WCAX-TV.

I'm impressed with the line-up. They carry a lot of shows that you can't find
elsewhere.
The Incredible Hulk, Star Trek, Kojak, Charlie's Angles, the Addams Finally,
Quincy. The
drama/action packed Prise 2 can be a compliment to DejaView and TV Land, which
both
seem to be more sitcom oriented. That is if you don't mind French dubbing. Of
course, the
fact is that sitcoms don't translate very well.


--- In TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com, "hattonandco" <hattonandco@...> wrote:
>
> Website:
>
> http://prise2.canoe.com/
>
> Schedule:
>
> http://prise2.canoe.com/programmation.html
>
> I don't know if it's in any listings.
>
> --- In TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com, "Tim Ripley" <tim_ripley@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com, "hattonandco" <hattonandco@> wrote:
> > >
> > > A new channel called Prise 2 is currently available for free for
> > three months. It is sort of
> > > like a French DejaView or TV Land. On illico it can be found on
> > Channel 98
> > >
> >
> >   Does Prise 2 have a website? Is any listings publication (TV Hebdo,
> > TV 7 Jours, Voila!, etc.) carrying their listings?
> >
>

--- In TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com, "****LJV-Borg****" <zee103dot5@...> wrote:
>
> --- In TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com, "hattonandco" <hattonandco@> wrote:
> >
> > They also never carried Santa Barbara which is what Susnset Beach
> replaced on NBC.
> >
> > --- In TVinMtl@yahoogroups.com, "****LJV-Borg****" <zee103dot5@>
wrote:
> > >
> > > So far, they didn't carry the first season of "Sunset Beach," which
> > > all NBC stations aired.  When did they start carrying the show,
during
> > > the 1997-98 season?  I doubt it.
> > >
>
> All Burlington/Plattsburgh TV stations were stupid, except for WCAX-TV.

Maybe it's the possibility when Fox 44 went on the air in '97, it
caused the networks to carry full schedules.