Could Trio be gone?

[Chris Blount]

This is an excerpt from an article in USA Today about the NBC/DirecTV deal:

NBC seems to have thrown in the towel on low-rated Trio, which DirecTV reportedly wanted to drop, by leaving it out. That's significant: DirecTV accounts for about 67% of the 18 million homes the channel reaches.

"We're evaluating our options for Trio," says NBC Universal Cable President David Zaslav. He says NBC still might return to seek a carriage deal after it decides what to do with the channel. Campbell wouldn't discuss Trio.

Source (http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-07-28-nbc_x.htm)

[wipeout]

That would suck. I love that channel. Give me more programming like that over all of these friggin' shopping networks and religious stations any day!

[durl]

No more "Pink Lady and Jeff" reruns????? NOOOO!!!

Seriously, isn't TRIO just MTV for 30-somethings?

[jpurkey]

I hope not. I really enjoy the brilliant, but cancelled programs that Trio shows.

I'm surprised Trio is not in more homes. I knew Dish didn't have it, but assumed it was on a lot of cable systems.

[Karl Foster]

They used to have an excellent concert series - Session on West 54th. I haven't seen it on for a while, though. I don't watch a lot of Trio, but I never like to see stations go dark.

[Guesst925XTU]

Well that will be one less reason for me to stick with DirecTV, DISH is looking better and better, once NWI-TV is bought by Al "B"ore DirecTV won't have anything exclusive. (at least nothing worth-while anyway).

[demonstimpy]

I hope they keep Trio. I did sign the petition to keep it on DirecTV.
I record quite a few concerts off there on Tivo and transfer them to DVD.
I would not be happy to see it go. There are no other channels that show concerts in their entirity. :mad:

[bonscott87]

I didn't even know the channel existed. :)
And that's probably why they are in such trouble. Nobody (in general) watches.

[missileman]

No more "Pink Lady and Jeff" reruns????? NOOOO!!!

Seriously, isn't TRIO just MTV for 30-somethings?

I'm 51...and I love Trio......That brilliant, but cancelled series ig great!!!

[Steve Mehs]

Considering 2/3s of Trio's potential viewers are DirecTV subscribers, if Trio were to leave D*, they better get on E* or make it more available on cable and do it quick. Trio's not a channel I particularly care for, but I know a lot of people enjoy it and request Dish carry it, but if they are removed from D* their future is bleak.

[dswallow]

That'd be a shame. I won't put Trio among any sort of top 10, but it's definitely not among the 80% of all DirecTV's channels that I don't watch at all, ever. In the scheme of things I can't imagine bandwidth is at such a premium at the moment they'd drop it.