Weigel channels discussion (MeTV, H&I, Start TV, Catchy Comedy, MeTV Toons, MeTV+, etc)

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Discussion about Weigel channels.
 
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@Low Spark of Lyman sorry, I got inspired by moe obsession of putting tacomaster in his comments so I decided to do the same
I see, thanks for clearing that up.

Anyway, I thought it'd be interesting to cover MeTV's animation offerings before 2019 (when they started airing The Flintstones). In 2012, they had a block called AniMeTV, which featured Gumby, The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo, He-Man & The Masters of the Universe and She-Ra: Princess of Power. There was also Public Domain Classics on MeTV's website, as mentioned in this article from November 2015; it included "cartoons like Betty Boop, Colonel Bleep, Popeye and The New Three Stooges."
 

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H and I is doing their annual and by annual meaning they took the mantle of doing it after Decades stopped existing of doing a Twilight Zone Marathon for the 4th of July. The best part of this one is they are also not just airing The Twilight Zone, they are also airing the 1985 series, which is a bonus treat. There's more it's also a 4 day marathon. July 4th at 6/5c am all the way to July 8th 6/5am

 

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H and I is doing their annual and by annual meaning they took the mantle of doing it after Decades stopped existing of doing a Twilight Zone Marathon for the 4th of July. The best part of this one is they are also not just airing The Twilight Zone, they are also airing the 1985 series, which is a bonus treat. There's more it's also a 4 day marathon. July 4th at 6/5c am all the way to July 8th 6/5am

FINALLY!!! I'm happy to see 1985 series to be included.

1985 series DVD aren't closed captioned, so H&I would be only one method for me to watch with closed caption.

I remember H&I aired Twilight Zone on July 4 last year - all were 1959 to 1964.
 

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Just noticed Heroes & Icons changed their Sunday Primetime lineup. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has been replaced with Fall Guy and Mortal Kombat: Konquest.
 

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Just noticed Heroes & Icons changed their Sunday Primetime lineup. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has been replaced with Fall Guy and Mortal Kombat: Konquest.
Good finding and oh wow, they changed the lineup twice in one month that is unusual.

I would prefer to see Weigel replaces many of Walker, Texas Ranger with different shows like Knight Rider, Simon & Simon, Miami Vice, Matt Houston or Hulk TV series.
 

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Guess I'll Cross post here about Story Television's change, I had forgotten this thread existed

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Story Television is changing their line up slightly from July 5th. They are doing America themed programming from Sunday the 30th of June to July 4th.
  • The series "Forged in Fire" comes to the network to air on Fridays, replacing Modern Marvels : the series.
  • Saturdays stay as Unexplained Phenomena, Sundays are still Biography and the E/I programming.
  • Mondays Military and Combat is removed and Modern Marvels takes that day.
  • Tuesdays stay as Tech and Innovation,
  • Wednesdays are still World Events, and Thursdays are still American History.
  • The Channel also continues to air their programming on 8 hour cycles 3 times a day.

On the H&I thing, so that's what the change was, the print schedule said effective 6/30 but didn't say what was different . I don't watch the channel so I couldn't tell.

 

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Old H&I schedule

Sept 3, 2018 - https://imagecdn.heroesandiconstv.com/tgYDs-1534446772-HNI 3Q18 Eff 9-3-18 E-P.pdf

Oct 6, 2019 - https://imagecdn.heroesandiconstv.com/sgtW8-1569608373-HNI 4Q19 Eff 10-6-19 CT.pdf

July 5, 2020 - https://imagecdn.heroesandiconstv.com/mpJtx-1593438079-HNI 3Q20 Eff 7-5-20 CT.pdf

March 15, 2021 - https://imagecdn.handitv.com/THwCo-1614695318-HNI 2Q21 Eff 3-15-21 CT.pdf

Oct 18, 2021- https://imagecdn.handitv.com/xtYwI-1632429836-HNI 4Q21 Eff 10-18-21 CT CLEAN.pdf

Jan 17, 2022 - https://imagecdn.handitv.com/0MxfE-1642199991-HNI 1Q22 Eff 1-17-22 CT CLEAN (1).pdf

Aug 29, 2022 - https://imagecdn.handitv.com/aX9jd-1661532030-HNI 3Q22 Eff 8-29-22 CT.pdf

Dec 26, 2022 - https://imagecdn.handitv.com/w52T6-1672342925-HNI 1Q23 Eff 12-26-22 CT.pdf

July 4, 2023 - https://imagecdn.handitv.com/2Kq4U-1688396408-HNI 3Q23 Eff 7-4-23 CT.pdf

Feb 26, 2024 - https://imagecdn.handitv.com/ZjBo4-1708462738-pdf-HNI 1Q24 Eff 2-26-24 CT CLEAN.pdf

On the H&I thing, so that's what the change was, the print schedule said effective 6/30 but didn't say what was different . I don't watch the channel so I couldn't tell.
Last change was on June 3 when they replaced MacGyver with The Fall Guy as Thursday - Dayshift, that all.

As for Feb 26, 2024, they replaced Beastmaster with The Highlander and replaced Relic Hunter with extra episode of Numb3r.
 

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Weigel should launch a classic music video channel called "MeTV Music" it could be what MTV used to be back in the day.
 

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Not sure about Weigel 24/7 music channel would be viable because of Vevo and music videos are readily to watch via online.

Likely next channel would be 24/7 western channel (most viable) and 24/7 sci-fi, fantasy and horror channel (moderate viable).

There is reason about I mentioned as moderate viable because Comet exists and Weigel has to make sure that don’t end up becoming redundant, also Sinclair struggles with financial may enable Weigel to get extensive libraries for future channel.

MeTV Drama is possibility as well, despite about H&I and Start TV existed.
 

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MeTV Music would be free to everyone unlike MTV Classic which is similar in scope but not available to everyone with a live pay TV provider.
 

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I discovered missing scenes in 80s The Twilight Zone and noticed a big difference between syndication version and DVD version, so I'm not happy camper.

It is not Weigel's fault, so it was done by Paramount/ViacomCBS that where they sold syndication package to Weigel.

If I was lawmaker, I would definitely legislate to expand the hard cap on ads that seen on kid channels to all general/adult channels, including cable, satellite, broadcast, streaming and digital subchannels. It could eliminate most of cut/edit to syndication shows.

80s The Twilight Zone only have 22-24 minutes out of 30 minutes format, so Paramount cut to 18-20 minutes with whooping 10-12 minutes of ads time. That's definitely TBS style.
 

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One of the shows I had in mind for MeTV Music was a metal videos show. One episode could focus on videos of hair metal songs featured on Peacemaker.
 

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One of the shows I had in mind for MeTV Music was a metal videos show. One episode could focus on videos of hair metal songs featured on Peacemaker.
My parents remembered about how popularity was heavy metal in 1980s and they aired tons of music videos.

I preferred heavy metal and alternative rock because they produced the very heavy beat at high volume, so as deaf, I need a high volume with heavy beat to make feel good. Hip hop got very loud beat too.
 

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For whatever reason, zap2it is refusing to add Weigel network subchannels after 8.3 for KCSG (in Utah).
The only ones listed are MeTV (8.1), Catchy Comedy (8.2), and Start TV (8.3).
Missing are H&I (8.4), MeTV+ (8.5), Story (8.6), Movies! (8.7), MeTV Toons (8.8), and the Infomercial channel (8.12).

I've contacted zap2it 2 weeks before the launch of MeTV Toons, and again on the launch day of MeTV Toons.
Aside from the automated response saying to "wait 2 weeks and then try again if issue remains", I've gotten no response (twice), and they have not added the missing subchannels.
This leaves me no choice but to open the individual schedule pages for these networks, and there is no way (on the MeTV website) to view which episodes of MeTV+ shows are coming.

Needless to say, I missed out on the Twilight Zone marathon on H&I because of this.

Any idea on what I should do?
 

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