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Could be higher. But maybe not as much as you may think. Many will place more than one order on a day and the orders probably also include website orders.
But since qvc is not ratings driven, it is moot anyway.
I'm not eager to get it in HD (we never watch it), but so long as we stay on the kind of quarterly path we've been on lately, driven by back-end tech-upgrade, it wouldn't overly upset me if it showed up sometime in 2013.
I know it isn't "anticipation" but all of my remaining local affiliates, WNLO 23, WNYO 49, ION 51 and even an Indie station WBBZ 67 (with no HD programming I know of, bars on the sides with the call letters) in Buffalo, are suddenly HD. So either they silently launched, or I've been completely oblivious for a long time. Anyone else seeing locals popping up? Maybe the early in the year stuff is more LIL...
CBC Newsworld was never available in the USA, what we had was Newsworld International, which was purchased by Al Gore to create Current in 2005. Outside of The National and some of CBC's other newscasts the majority of the channel was made up of original content and output from other international broadcasters like ITN, Deutsche Welle and NHK. CBC Newsworld has since rebranded to CBC News Network and I'm not sure if they can be offered in the USA unless they launch an alternate feed due to the rights to some of the documentaries they now air in the evenings.
I'm not eager to get it in HD (we never watch it), but so long as we stay on the kind of quarterly path we've been on lately, driven by back-end tech-upgrade, it wouldn't overly upset me if it showed up sometime in 2013.
And as mentioned in another thread, Al-Jazeera purchased Current TV and it will be called called Al-Jazeera America [link]. Time Warner Cable is dropping it, will DIRECTV be next?
And as mentioned in another thread, Al-Jazeera purchased Current TV and it will be called called Al-Jazeera America [link]. Time Warner Cable is dropping it, will DIRECTV be next?
In the information released to the press they said Current's existing distribution agreements with Comcast, DirecTV, Dish Network, FiOS and U-Verse are included.
In the information released to the press they said Current's existing distribution agreements with Comcast, DirecTV, Dish Network, FiOS and U-Verse are included.
Not all agreements include content and owner escape clauses, it depends what terms they agreed to. When The Health Network was sold to Discovery and became FitTV, Cablevision had to keep it, but as soon as the agreement they signed while it was owned by Fox expired, they dropped it. When Discovery Health became OWN, Discovery wanted to have everyone negotiate a higher deal, but with only 3 shows announced, none of which featured Oprah and the launch being delayed several years, most of them chose to wait it out and stick to the existing deal.
The deal was actually made last year, it wasn't until they got the final approvals that they announced it yesterday. Al Jazeera would have just continued trying to get coverage with their existing channel as the purchase of Current would have been worthless if it didn't include distribution agreements.
i.e. Not really cable, but Time Warner was ready to sell WCW to Eric Bischoff and financial backers in March 2001, but they pulled out at the last minute when Turner decided not to include a timeslot on TNT as part of the deal. Without distribution it made the deal worthless.
I know it isn't "anticipation" but all of my remaining local affiliates, WNLO 23, WNYO 49, ION 51 and even an Indie station WBBZ 67 (with no HD programming I know of, bars on the sides with the call letters) in Buffalo, are suddenly HD. So either they silently launched, or I've been completely oblivious for a long time. Anyone else seeing locals popping up? Maybe the early in the year stuff is more LIL...
and is it really a content change? It was a news channel before, it's going to be a news channel after. They can't drop CNN because they start focusing on the Arab Spring vs whatever news story of the day is happening in the US.
There is a thread for discussing Current TV and the purchase by Al-Jazeera.
This thread is for discussing potential new HD channels, not potential SD channel losses.
I get the feeling January will be too soon for any newly added basic-cable linear HD. That is with consideration to hints by Satelliteracer. So, I will look to February.
The basic-cable programmer whose HD I feel most strongly to become a high-def addition is H2, formerly History International, and part of A&E Networks. It would make sense to bring in with it LMN HD. But last year came additions of E! Entertainment Television HD (without Style Network HD) and DIY Network HD (without Cooking Channel HD), so I wouldn't presume a natural connection. H2 HD, I figure, would come in before LMN HD, if it turns out both wouldn't get added on the same date.
I get the feeling January will be too soon for any newly added basic-cable linear HD. That is with consideration to hints by Satelliteracer. So, I will look to February.
The basic-cable programmer whose HD I feel most strongly to become a high-def addition is H2, formerly History International, and part of A&E Networks. It would make sense to bring in with it LMN HD. But last year came additions of E! Entertainment Television HD (without Style Network HD) and DIY Network HD (without Cooking Channel HD), so I wouldn't presume a natural connection. H2 HD, I figure, would come in before LMN HD, if it turns out both wouldn't get added on the same date.
I get the feeling January will be too soon for any newly added basic-cable linear HD. That is with consideration to hints by Satelliteracer. So, I will look to February.
The basic-cable programmer whose HD I feel most strongly to become a high-def addition is H2, formerly History International, and part of A&E Networks. It would make sense to bring in with it LMN HD. But last year came additions of E! Entertainment Television HD (without Style Network HD) and DIY Network HD (without Cooking Channel HD), so I wouldn't presume a natural connection. H2 HD, I figure, would come in before LMN HD, if it turns out both wouldn't get added on the same date.
We're still very early. We can see a test channel go up and a week later it's live. And we still have 4 Wednesdays left (not that they always go by that schedule).
And as mentioned in another thread, Al-Jazeera purchased Current TV and it will be called called Al-Jazeera America [link]. Time Warner Cable is dropping it, will DIRECTV be next?
Looks like Dish will be getting the rest of the Cablevision channels in HD (like IFC and WE) soon since they're now uplinked in test mode. Guess we have to wait at least another week for any hints of what might be coming, soon.
In the information released to the press they said Current's existing distribution agreements with Comcast, DirecTV, Dish Network, FiOS and U-Verse are included.
Pretty sure I saw a mod say something about moving the Current TV talk to the thread it has. I didn't see a tin foil hat committee thread yet so feel free to start that.
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