At 07:23 PM 5/8/01 -0400, Gary wrote:
>You don't happen to live in the Columbus to Cleveland area do you?
Nope, Birmingham, AL.
>We get advertisements for Andromeda, ST:TNG, Voyager and DS9, but at the
>time it is supposed to come on, the local cable company switches to an
>infomercial.
This is a local broadcast channel: Ch 68.
>If I am not mistaken, it is a royalty/broadcast fee issue. If our local
>cable company airs one of the above shows that is transmitted from the
>Cleveland station, then our local Columbus cable company would have to pay
>the royalties and fees associated with the broadcast. Since our local
>company also broadcasts the shows on another LOCAL channel, they don't want
>to pay the fees twice. At least this is my understanding of the issue.
But did things change for you only 2 weeks ago? That's when it stopped
airing here, even though they were still airing the commercials for it.
>Oh, and in answer to your question, we get it on UPN twice every weekend.
Yes, it is also the UPN channel here.
FWIW, the schedule on the station's web page still lists
it. Unfortunately, they don't list any way to contact the
station. Perhaps they're such a shoestring operation that they don't have
anyone to answer correspondence . . . ;-)
-- Ronn! :)
