Seattle: KCPQ-DT coming soon?

[steveschauer]

Just got this email from Michael Goodman regarding KCPQ-DT on Dish:

Steve,

We have successfully concluded our Re Transmission Agreement with Direct TV last week, so we can turn our full attention to getting an agreement with the Dish network, cannot tell you when that would be, and how long after that to get KCPQ & KMYQ DTV services integrated into the Dish systems, typically 30 days after agreements are reached. However, I am assuming it will be very soon now as we have also got Comcast to take our new sub DTV channel 25.2 (KMYQ) which features a 24/7 standard def rock video music service called TUBE TV. Check it out.

These discussions are on the Corp level so we here on the local side are along for the ride.

Michael Z. Goodman
Director of Engineering
Tribune Television Northwest
1813 Westlake Ave. North
Seattle, WA. 98109
206.674.1313

Reading between the lines, I think the reason for the delay has been that KCPQ is requiring carriage of the subchannel 25.2 in order to get permission for 25.1.

[Jolard]

Just got this email from Michael Goodman regarding KCPQ-DT on Dish:
Reading between the lines, I think the reason for the delay has been that KCPQ is requiring carriage of the subchannel 25.2 in order to get permission for 25.1.

You are correct I am sure, it has been because they wanted to get their sub channel carried also.

Actually this is interesting. He says that the sub-channel is The Tube (which is actually a pretty good sub channel, although I though I was getting it as a sub channel of either WB or UPN OTA. It has bad picture quality, but plays some good music, and actually plays videos unlike MTV for example. Won't be too bad to have.

Personally though I could easily have done without it if it meant that we couldn't have Fox. This is good news to get Fox on the Satellite, although I am able to pick it up reasonably well OTA.

[steveschauer]

Oh yeah, I confused the two. However, Tribune owns both KCPQ and KTWB.