hey i saw advertisments on tv land the Dick van dyke show is having a big 50 next week and going be airing each weeknight at 6:00pm on tv Land did anyone else see this.pretty cool.

Wow, really? :) That's pretty cool. That'll be a great way to introduce people who don't have MeTV or the DVDs to the show. I'm surprised TV Land still has the rights to the show, considering it's been a long time since it was last on the schedule..

Here's to hoping TV Land will show as much of the episodes as possible (and not cut them up!)!

mabye if ratings are good it stay on the line up be good to see that show again

mabye if ratings are good it stay on the line up be good to see that show again



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that was a joke of course tv land wont show it again its tv land for crying out loud be lucky we get it for a week lol

Actually they may be going back to a few more classics,aren't they now showing Bewitched also.Even they know channels like Antenna tv and Me tv are putting them out of business. It still does not matter though,as I've mentioned before even if they had the perfect schedule I'd never watch TVLand.50+percent commercials and 17 minute episodes of shows,No thankyou.

The TV Land(fill) Website is as DEAD AS A DOORNAIL! :horse: Weeks go by without anyone posting on topics, and when one IS posted, very often it's :( :mad: :angryfire SPAM :angryfire :mad: :( . Their Ratings cannot be very high. Even if they were to return to showing more classics, as mentioned before most likely they'd be CUT TO RIBBONS to make room for Advertising. Besides I already have most of the Classic TV Shows they USED to show (As well as a boatload they never showed) on DVD, so I can watch them anytime I desire! :D

I think TVLand may have closed their forum again.I just took a look and the most recent posts are six days old.

I think TVLand may have closed their forum again.I just took a look and the most recent posts are six days old.

It's still open. I requested that the last person to watch this channel please turn off the TV Set! :lol:

Where did you see that it was going to be on TV Land? I don't see that anywhere on their schedule for next week?

it been on advertised on tv during all in the family and all,said they celebrating the big 50 next week and it be on each weeknight starting at 6:00pm

I haven't watched TV Land in ages. It's not that I disapprove of their new direction or anything, but there's just so little variety. If I want to see older shows I watch Me-TV.

i dont get me tv my grandma does i dont care for it shows nothing but 50 60s shows not 70 80s shows im in to i dont watch tv land but once n while and all my good shows are on dvd i got which is good.over 155 shows in my collection

Maybe(and it would be great if they did this)-just maybe-TVLand will air the shows IN THEIR ENTIRETY,(not all chopped up)have no irritating pop-ups,no itsy-bitsy bite-sized closing credits,and show the full end credits.But,I doubt it.

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Maybe(and it would be great if they did this)-just maybe-TVLand will air the shows IN THEIR ENTIRETY,(not all chopped up)have no irritating pop-ups,no itsy-bitsy bite-sized closing credits,and show the full end credits.But,I doubt it.
yea, right.:lol:

We will cover later this week. More changes to come.

Looks like it'll air all next week from 6pm-9pm with Scrubs following 9pm-10pm then 12pm-9pm on Saturday and Sunday.

Maybe(and it would be great if they did this)-just maybe-TVLand will air the shows IN THEIR ENTIRETY,(not all chopped up)have no irritating pop-ups,no itsy-bitsy bite-sized closing credits,and show the full end credits.But,I doubt it.
Are you able to get either Antenna tv or Me-tv.Hopefully you are or will be able to get one or both of those stations soon.

Looks like the addition of Dick Van Dyke will be at the expensive of quite a few other classics in the next couple of weeks. The Jeffersons, Good Times, Bewitched, and Jeannie will be gone. Home Improvement as well. It's on their schedule page for the next few weeks. MWC is returning. Hopefully Pavan will soon have the details.

Story is tomorrow. Some of what you said is not true.

Story is tomorrow. Some of what you said is not true.I hope it's not. Very strange schedule. Just going by their schedule page.

They are going back and forth in a few hours. Hope to narrow it down.

They are going back and forth in a few hours. Hope to narrow it down.It looks like they're planning some pretty big changes - the biggest in quite a while - so the final product will be interesting, even though I don't really watch them much anymore. I don't know what's right and wrong on their online schedule, but that sure is a lot of Sanford and Son, Dick Van Dyke, and Bonanza that it's showing. Hope that changes. Will be waiting for the blog

O MY GAWD!!! Is it too much to think that they are ACTUALLY going back to their former days???:faint:

To think any older cable network will soon be returning to it's former glory is nothing but a pipedream. Considering virtually all of them have forsaken their roots in exchange for a larger audience that watches mostly mind-rotting reality stuff and show NO signs of letting up, I would highly doubt it.

With the advent of the internet, DVDs, and this crop of awesome OTA classic TV channels I don't know why anybody would bother to watch TVLand anymore aside from Hot In Cleveland and Retired at 35.

Our blog story with all of the details:

http://blog.sitcomsonline.com/2011/09/tv-land-celebrates-50th-anniversary-of.html

With the advent of the internet, DVDs, and this crop of awesome OTA classic TV channels I don't know why anybody would bother to watch TVLand anymore aside from Hot In Cleveland and Retired at 35.
I'm confident,at least for the most part,the only people that still watch or care about TVLand are those folks that don't get either Antenna and/or Me-tv.I mentioned earlier that those 2 stations are quickly putting TVLand out of business. I'll add it would not surprise me if they are also putting alot of other cable stations out of business too.

I'm confident,for the most part the only people that still watch or care about TVLand are those folks that don't get either Antenna and/or Me-tv.I mentioned earlier that those 2 stations are quickly putting TVLand out of business. I'll add it would not surprise me if they are also putting alot of other cable stations out of business too.

Tomorrow is the last day of what businesses call "The Third Quarter". Among the things I see happening in this quarter is for Pay-TV to continue to LOSE Subscribers! :lol:

I'm no expert Regulus but I think you're right.I think Pay-tv is going to continue losing many,many customers.They refuse to be more flexible and are not being forced to be more flexible either ie:Pay only for the stations you want to view etc.

I would die before I dropped pay-TV. I watch too many cable shows. Guess I have a problem. :lol:

As for TV Land's schedule, I like the addition of Dick Van Dyke (even though, if I want to watch it, I'll likely watch it on Me-TV), but the rest of the schedule is weird. Lots of airings for Sanford and Son, Dick Van Dyke, and Bonanza. That's the schedule I was talking about. Too bad Leave It to Beaver didn't return to weekends to go along with Andy Griffith, that was nice while it lasted. MWC will be gone by or early in November.

I'm no expert Regulus but I think you're right.I think Pay-tv is going to continue losing many,many customers and there is only one thing that could 'maybe' prevent it.--They MUST offer or be forced to offer the option to only pay for the channels you want to view,and that's probably not going to happen.


I wouldn't be too sure. According to an article by Reuters, Many Pay-TV Providers are considering forcing Programmers to offer their channels A-La-Carte. They might be realising if they don't do something soon to reduce costs, they might see their entire business go under. Or possibly they might look at that group that's filed a lawsuit in Federal Court claming that Pay-TV's practice of making subscribers pay for a medley of channels just to get the few they actually want violates Anti-Trust Laws and said "These people actually have a chance of winning, in which case we would HAVE to offer our channels A-La-Carte". It's an uphill battle for sure, but the bigger they are, the harder they fall! :lol:

I would die before I dropped pay-TV. I watch too many cable shows. Guess I have a problem. :lol:


You just got Me-tv right.Hasn't that cut down some or perhaps even alot of your pay-tv viewing.

If the public is ever offered channels ala carte then they will just invent more service fees to impose or simply charge a large sum for 1 channel to the point it would be cheaper to buy a package. I have absolutely no faith in big business in this day and age. They have enough money to hire to best minds and legal team to get away with anything they wish.

I hear just about the same story from every person who hasn't been fed up with the system yet - they think they've become too attached to PayTV to even care about the cost. Nor do they want the hassle of a free/cheaper alternative (or even know such a thing as "free TV" still exists), especially for the technologically impaired. I don't think most people realize they are paying someone the absurd amount of $2000 a year for TV service.

What irks me the most is DVR. Exactly what does it cost your service provider for YOU to record something in your own home? If you would have sold someone a VCR 20 years ago and told them they would also have to pay the cableco a monthly fee they would tell you to go pound salt. Now that the service providers have put the squeeze on electronics manufacturers preventing them from producing fee-less DVRs they have created their own monopoly.

So TVLand may indeed slightly modify their schedule giving some people the impression they are going back to the good old days. But its all smoke and mirrors. As soon as society progresses beyond its current keeping-up-with-the-jones' mentality it will realize how foolish it was to be swindled by TV providers so long.

You just got Me-tv right.Hasn't that cut down some or perhaps even alot of your pay-tv viewing.I have been watching a lot of Me-TV, live and on DVR. The stuff I watch most on regular pay TV are news shows, Food Network, History Channel, Discovery Channel, Hallmark, and a few original series on cable nets. I haven't watched TV Land on a regular basis in ages.

I guess Me-TV could be considered "pay TV" for some since I bet a ton of its viewers watch it through cable.

I guess Me-TV could be considered "pay TV" for some since I bet a ton of its viewers watch it through cable.

Now that you mention it, I'd be willing to bet most of its viewers watch via pay TV. I'd also wager that most people don't even know such channels are probably free over the air to them. Service providers do their best to hide the fact that some channels are indeed free over the air.

Now that you mention it, I'd be willing to bet most of its viewers watch via pay TV. I'd also wager that most people don't even know such channels are probably free over the air to them. Service providers do their best to hide the fact that some channels are indeed free over the air.True. From the comments I'm reading on their Facebook page, most viewers are watching it on cable...and I mean, why not, if you subscribe. In my area, it's probably much better known as channel 118 than channel 7.2. People probably think it's a cable channel, you're right. It sure isn't a channel you'd expect to be free.

In markets like Chicago, though, Me-TV is on a LP station, but gets cable coverage over most of the Chicago area where viewers otherwise wouldn't get the station OTA, or at least not well. In the town I live in, we're a pretty good distance from the Me-TV affiliate's tower, so in some parts of town you can't get their signal well, cable is the only reliable way you can get it.

I used to think even RTV was a cable station.So I agree that alot of viewers who get Antenna and/or Me-tv via cable must think they are just 2 great cable stations and not free stations.