Couch potatoes rejoice, you’re going to get your helpings of American Idol and NFL on FOX. WSVN parent Sunbeam Television and DirecTV have reached an agreement.
With all the nations problems solved Senator John Kerry turned his attention to the Sunbeam-DirecTV retransmission dispute and warned both parties to get it together and solve their dispute before the Superbowl. Kerry, Scott Brown and 10 other Mass. house reps sent the letter to both DirecTV and Sunbeam.
Senator Kerry followed with a second letter warning both companies that if 200,000 Mass. viewers of Boston NBC affiliate WHDH miss the superbowl he will support the proposed new powers for the FCC to get involved in retrans fee disputes.
The Boston Herald quotes Senator Kerry saying ” I will continue to work to urge the FCC to make sure that access to major live events (not) become a recurring tool for leverage in these negotiations,”.
Meanwhile in America…
copy of the letter after the jump
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WPLG and LXTV (was anybody watching this channel?) apparently had a divorce, and WPLG has already hooked up with another TV network to fill its sub-channel. Come April 24th on WPLG 10.2 will be taken over by another national DTV broadcast network called MeTV.
The network’s name might throw you off at first but it actually stands for “Memorable Entertainment Television”, the station airs once popular sitcoms, dramas and even commercials from the 1950s trough the 1980s. Content comes from Viacom and 20th Century Fox libraries. Their schedule online (MeTVNetwork.com) shows that weekdays in prime time viewers get treated to The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Dik Van Dyke and Cheers at 10pm.
MeTV network launched in 2005 in Chicago and nationally in December of 2010.
WSFL has been without a morning news program, or much of anything locally produced, for some time now. That is until today when they started airing ‘Eye Opener’, a Tribune-produced morning show for its stations nationwide. It’s produced and originates from Tribune-owned CW affiliate KDAF in Dallas, TX and also airs in Houston, Philadelphia and Portland, Oregon. It’s billed as “… a new kind of morning show chock full of entertainment, humor, and what you need to know to get your day started”, according to their Facebook page.
WSFL canceled it’s morning program ‘The Morning Show’ in August of 2010. ‘Eye Opener’ airs weekdays from 6am to 8am.
Yesterday the Third District Court of Appeals reversed an earlier decision by a jury that found WSVN fired former health reporter Marilyn Mitzel because she was too old and refered the case back to Miami-Dade court for review. The court said Mitzel waited too long to file the age discrimination charge against WSVN to her lawsuit and that the judge shouldn’t have allowed her to do so. The court also had issue with an expert witness who testified on behalf of Mitzel. The Herald quotes Sunbeam’s attorney as saying that they plan to file for dismissal.
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