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Merry24 · 06-08-2023, 02:33 PM

What does the Future hold for Antenna TV?

I thought they were going to be more of a 1950’s & 1960’s & early 1970’s Channel? They have not added any Programming from these decades in years. They haven’t put any of their programming from the 1950’s & 1960’s in their evenings and primetime & overnight time slots in years. Although it is nice to see them holding a Father Knows Best Marathon for Fathers Day and a Bewitched stunt for Halloween.

Has streaming and Catchy TV & Fe TV stopped their mission? There hasn’t been any on air programming suggesting they are a network deticated to the early years of television (like NICK at NITE did in there BEST years), there Schedule effects that unless your watching between 5AM-4pm Weekdays and have also noticed they have cut back on there Special Marathon stunts although they are airing big Three’s Company Weekend Marathon over Labor Day Weekend.

Will this great network be making any major Changes in the Fall 2023? Or will this wonderful loved network keep programming from the 80’s & 90’s in the evenings primetime and overnight and Weekends and stay on autopilot?

I guess I just got to stay tuned!!!!

Svenfan1234 · 06-08-2023, 03:48 PM

It's disappointing to see what Antenna has become. Bachelor Father was "added", if you can call it that in January of 2022 along with Benny Hill. I think if they brought back the Saturday night classics block that would be something but no new additions in a year, if not more, is extremely disappointing given how much they added 2015, 2018, & 2020. I think Nexstar, who acquired Antenna, actually has very little interest in it and has largely been shoved to the back burner--the marathons and new shows ceasing almost confirms that. I don't want them to turn into an autopilot network like LAFF has, but I think we'll see less focus on Antenna which is a true shame. I think with Rewind not picking up as many affiliates will also hurt Antenna in the long run with Nexstar owning both and I think Catchy Comedy will become the new Antenna, I think its only a matter of time.

Merry24 · 06-08-2023, 09:59 PM

Sven,

Good observations. I agree with you about Catchy Comedy. I guess only time will tell.

diamondj,

Yes I definitely agree with you NICKELODEON will never bring NICK at NITE back to life. I was implying that antenna tv can maybe take a look and see how NICK at NITE advertised in its better years and try to promote themselves that way.

Sorry, been dealing with alot of stress from my job. Sitcoms from the early years takes me to a a world where life seemed so much simpiler.My stress reliever is Jack Benny & Burns and Allen Mchale’s Navy Bachelor Father Father Knows Best Dennis the Menace Hazel My Favorite Martin I Dream Of Jeannie Bewitched That Girl and more!!!!

That’s real nice of you to post that insight info regarding what antenna tv tentatively has planned for the rest of the year if that sticks! Yes it looks really good especially the Friday after Thanksgiving with the Black and White Shows

,The Thanksgiving Day Marathon of Thanksgiving episodes & antenna tv Classic Christmas Collection on Christmas Eve & The Yule Log/Christmas Through The Years on Christmas Day & the Last Call Marathon on New Year’s Eve!

Hopefully they will Freshen the Schedule for the Fall but if not like you said I’ll enjoy and make the best on what’s available!

icecream · 06-08-2023, 10:37 PM

Interesting the complete series Thanksgiving week marathons have been dropped. Black and white black Friday, hopefully a lot of Bachelor Father and Jack Benny. BF being forever in the 8AM hour on weekdays wouldn't be so bad if it got a Sunday afternoon hour, at 2PM following the Father Knows Best hour.

Merry24 · 06-09-2023, 12:15 AM

If they did change the Fall 2023 4th Quarter Schedule (EST) Hope they will consider…

Monday’s-Fridays-

5AM-7AM Rewind your Day
Mon-Designing Women
Tue-Too Close For Comfort
Wed-Wings
Thu-Becker
Fri-Family Ties

7AM-8AM Benson
8AM-9AM Soap
9AM-10AM Maude
10AM-11AM Archie Bunkers Place
11AM-12pm The Jeffersons
12pm-1pm Barney Miller
1pm-2pm One Day At A Time
2pm-3pm Bachelor Father
3pm-4pm Father Knows Best
4pm-5pm Dennis the Menace
5pm-6pm Hazel
6pm-7pm That Girl
7pm-8pm My Favorite Martin
8pm-9pm I Dream Of Jeannie
9pm-10pm Bewitched
10pm-11pm Johnny Carson
11pm Mon-Thu Three’s Company/Fri-Johnny Carson
11:30pm Three’s Company
12AM-1AM The Burns And Allen Show
1AM-2AM The Jack Benny Program
2AM-3AM Bewitched
3AM-4AM I Dream Of Jeannie
4AM-5AM Mchale’s Navy

Saturday’s & Sunday’s
5AM-7AM Benny Hill
7AM-9AM The Partridge Family
9AM-10AM SAT-E/I/SUN-Mchale’s Navy
10AM-12pm Welcome Back Kotter
12pm-2pm Alice
2pm-4pm SAT-That Girl/SUN-Hazel
4pm-6pm SAT-F-K-B/SUN-Bachelor Father
6pm-8pm SAT-Jack Benny/SUN-Burns and Allen
8pm-10pm SAT-My Fav.Mart./SUN-Dennis the Men
10pm-12AM SAT-Jeannie/SUN-Bewitched
12AM-1AM SAT-Bewitched/SUN-I Dream of Jeannie
1AM-2AM SAT-Burns and Allen/SUN-Jack Benny
2AM-3AM SAT-Bachelor Father/SUN-F-K-B
3AM-4AM SAT-Dennis the Men/SUN-My Fav.Mart.
4AM-5AM SAT-Hazel/SUN-That Girl

tenter · 06-09-2023, 08:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by diamondj

"NICK at NITE" is gone. Let it go. Enjoy and make best with what it is available today by the many different platforms and channels.

nick@nite is NOT gone. It's STILL a thing, meaning the block is STILL airing. It's just literally airing only 3 modern shows just now that are only 90s, and 2010s.

merlinjones · 06-09-2023, 10:39 AM

Life is a state of mind. If you don't like the world as it exists, you certainly can live mostly in another simpler, more optimistic and reassuring era thanks to the plethora of digital subchannels.

Streaming - same thing! My use of the new tech is to watch lovely remastered versions of Ozzie & Harriet, Dallas and classic Disney movies (the one that are available at least), etc..

And if not available we have DVD, blu-ray and other home video tech.

No more need to endure current angst, darkness, disruption and lecturing. Choose the world you want to live in.

A friend once said to me, "You can't stick your head in the sand like an ostrich" and I replied "You don't know me very well, do you?"

As for Antenna TV I wish they had a better screen formatting and resolution like MeTV. And that Bewitched and Jeannie were in more accessible time slots for those of us who work during the day.

Charles Knox · 06-09-2023, 11:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by merlinjones

Life is a state of mind. If you don't like the world as it exists, you certainly can live mostly in another simpler, more optimistic and reassuring era thanks to the plethora of digital subchannels.

Streaming - same thing! My use of the new tech is to watch lovely remastered versions of Ozzie & Harriet, Dallas and classic Disney movies (the one that are available at least), etc..

And if not available we have DVD, blu-ray and other home video tech.

No more need to endure current angst, darkness, disruption and lecturing. Choose the world you want to live in.

A friend once said to me, "You can't stick your head in the sand like an ostrich" and I replied "You don't know me very well, do you?"

As for Antenna TV I wish they had a better screen formatting and resolution like MeTV. And that Bewitched and Jeannie were in more accessible time slots for those of us who work during the day.

Problem with streaming is studios like Disney censoring things they find politically incorrect (The French Connrction). If there is a show or movie you really like, I suggest droping the paid streaming services and buying the physical copiy instead. This is only going to get worse.

merlinjones · 06-09-2023, 12:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Charles Knox

Problem with streaming is studios like Disney censoring things they find politically incorrect (The French Connrction). If there is a show or movie you really like, I suggest droping the paid streaming services and buying the physical copiy instead. This is only going to get worse.

Absolutely. There is so much censorship and withholding of titles I keep a full library of hard copy material on blu-ray, DVD, laserdisc and VHS -- there are some titles that have never been available (uncut or at all) since tape and extras on laser that we'll never see again.

With digital anything can taken away and seemingly erased from history at their corporate or political whim.

stevea · 06-09-2023, 03:58 PM

What has happened with one Warner cartoons title (I think, backed by Looney Tunes Wiki Fandom) is that it was remastered/restored using the Turner-edited copy. Thus, potentially for all time, the library copy of the cartoon is a censored copy.

If it's happened with one, it's happened with more.

PaperClips · 06-09-2023, 07:12 PM

The Point, the ONLY POINT of Antenna TV is to run commercials. That's it. Programming is an afterthought. They get the absolute cheapest programming they can (Just about every show is available for free on various streaming services) and just pile as many commercials in as they possibly can between scenes. Many scenes are cut or sped-up so they can fit in more commercials.

opus · 06-09-2023, 11:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PaperClips

The Point, the ONLY POINT of Antenna TV is to run commercials. That's it. Programming is an afterthought. They get the absolute cheapest programming they can (Just about every show is available for free on various streaming services) and just pile as many commercials in as they possibly can between scenes. Many scenes are cut or sped-up so they can fit in more commercials.

I thought it was TV how it was meant to be

franciis · 06-10-2023, 06:42 PM

TV as it used to be..Love feel good....shows....on Antenna tv channel...fun

..shows...to make world

brighter/get one off their troubles....Nexstar tv bought Sincalir tv station a

few yrs (2 1/2 ?) ago...added

Rewind channel ..but there is still no Ant tv channel......they added Comet tv

..which had left for Rewind.....tv........Comet (Sinclair) tv came back and

took

place of TBD (Sinclair)

channel...Charge (Sinclair) channel is still on lineup.......Still Only four

subchannels.....Many Rewind (newer shows) r not funny.....some

had a few seasons.....bad writing !! Wish Ant tv channel & Rewind channel

was one channel or Ant tv would add......tv shows...1-Good Morning

World....2-The Paul Lynn show...& 3rd.....Losta Luck....& many other

numerous fun,fun old shows...like one local tv station did each

weeknite...each Summer.Their

slogan..was .......Tv as It Used To Be...

BigManMike · 06-10-2023, 11:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by opus

I thought it was TV how it was meant to be

Unfortunately those days of Antenna TV are long gone

favoriteshow · 06-13-2023, 10:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Merry24

Has streaming and Catchy TV & Fe TV stopped their mission?

feTV has been around for awhile and requires a subscription. It has overlap more to MeTV with the dramas, and only Bewitched/Hazel are noticeably overlapped to Antenna. Note, there might be more shows but as a daytime regular fixture, it is on both channels.

Catchy TV is a rebranding of Decades which had been around for awhile too.

In the end, it is really the ownership direction.

Antenna has centered on Family Ties/Three's Company as anchors to Antenna TV's schedule, but these shows have 24x7 Pluto TV channels. 99% of the country has access to high speed internet and the Pluto app is free. If I am craving the silliness of Three's Company, why would I wait to 7pm to watch Antenna and watch geriatric commercials when I can open the Pluto TV app?

The creation and continuation of Rewind TV has been questionable when they couldn't clear it in all Nexstar markets, or are too unfocused to do so.

I believe it would make sense to consolidate Rewind TV back to Antenna and use that digital space for a NewsNation Plus/Business channel/Scripps News competitor whatever.

It seems anyways the NewsNation brand is their direction, not multiplexing classic tv channels.

06-08-2023, 02:33 PM	#1
Merry24 Member Senior Member Join Date: Dec 10, 2017 Location: beach Posts: 2,039	Antenna TV's Future What does the Future hold for Antenna TV? I thought they were going to be more of a 1950’s & 1960’s & early 1970’s Channel? They have not added any Programming from these decades in years. They haven’t put any of their programming from the 1950’s & 1960’s in their evenings and primetime & overnight time slots in years. Although it is nice to see them holding a Father Knows Best Marathon for Fathers Day and a Bewitched stunt for Halloween. Has streaming and Catchy TV & Fe TV stopped their mission? There hasn’t been any on air programming suggesting they are a network deticated to the early years of television (like NICK at NITE did in there BEST years), there Schedule effects that unless your watching between 5AM-4pm Weekdays and have also noticed they have cut back on there Special Marathon stunts although they are airing big Three’s Company Weekend Marathon over Labor Day Weekend. Will this great network be making any major Changes in the Fall 2023? Or will this wonderful loved network keep programming from the 80’s & 90’s in the evenings primetime and overnight and Weekends and stay on autopilot? I guess I just got to stay tuned!!!!

06-08-2023, 03:48 PM	#2
Svenfan1234 Member Forum Star Join Date: Dec 12, 2015 Posts: 11,200	It's disappointing to see what Antenna has become. Bachelor Father was "added", if you can call it that in January of 2022 along with Benny Hill. I think if they brought back the Saturday night classics block that would be something but no new additions in a year, if not more, is extremely disappointing given how much they added 2015, 2018, & 2020. I think Nexstar, who acquired Antenna, actually has very little interest in it and has largely been shoved to the back burner--the marathons and new shows ceasing almost confirms that. I don't want them to turn into an autopilot network like LAFF has, but I think we'll see less focus on Antenna which is a true shame. I think with Rewind not picking up as many affiliates will also hurt Antenna in the long run with Nexstar owning both and I think Catchy Comedy will become the new Antenna, I think its only a matter of time.
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06-09-2023, 12:15 AM	#5
Merry24 Member Senior Member Join Date: Dec 10, 2017 Location: beach Posts: 2,039	If they did change the Fall 2023 4th Quarter Schedule (EST) Hope they will consider… Monday’s-Fridays- 5AM-7AM Rewind your Day Mon-Designing Women Tue-Too Close For Comfort Wed-Wings Thu-Becker Fri-Family Ties 7AM-8AM Benson 8AM-9AM Soap 9AM-10AM Maude 10AM-11AM Archie Bunkers Place 11AM-12pm The Jeffersons 12pm-1pm Barney Miller 1pm-2pm One Day At A Time 2pm-3pm Bachelor Father 3pm-4pm Father Knows Best 4pm-5pm Dennis the Menace 5pm-6pm Hazel 6pm-7pm That Girl 7pm-8pm My Favorite Martin 8pm-9pm I Dream Of Jeannie 9pm-10pm Bewitched 10pm-11pm Johnny Carson 11pm Mon-Thu Three’s Company/Fri-Johnny Carson 11:30pm Three’s Company 12AM-1AM The Burns And Allen Show 1AM-2AM The Jack Benny Program 2AM-3AM Bewitched 3AM-4AM I Dream Of Jeannie 4AM-5AM Mchale’s Navy Saturday’s & Sunday’s 5AM-7AM Benny Hill 7AM-9AM The Partridge Family 9AM-10AM SAT-E/I/SUN-Mchale’s Navy 10AM-12pm Welcome Back Kotter 12pm-2pm Alice 2pm-4pm SAT-That Girl/SUN-Hazel 4pm-6pm SAT-F-K-B/SUN-Bachelor Father 6pm-8pm SAT-Jack Benny/SUN-Burns and Allen 8pm-10pm SAT-My Fav.Mart./SUN-Dennis the Men 10pm-12AM SAT-Jeannie/SUN-Bewitched 12AM-1AM SAT-Bewitched/SUN-I Dream of Jeannie 1AM-2AM SAT-Burns and Allen/SUN-Jack Benny 2AM-3AM SAT-Bachelor Father/SUN-F-K-B 3AM-4AM SAT-Dennis the Men/SUN-My Fav.Mart. 4AM-5AM SAT-Hazel/SUN-That Girl
	Last edited by Merry24; 06-09-2023 at 01:03 AM.

06-08-2023, 09:59 PM	#3
Merry24 Member Senior Member Join Date: Dec 10, 2017 Location: beach Posts: 2,039	Sven, Good observations. I agree with you about Catchy Comedy. I guess only time will tell. diamondj, Yes I definitely agree with you NICKELODEON will never bring NICK at NITE back to life. I was implying that antenna tv can maybe take a look and see how NICK at NITE advertised in its better years and try to promote themselves that way. Sorry, been dealing with alot of stress from my job. Sitcoms from the early years takes me to a a world where life seemed so much simpiler.My stress reliever is Jack Benny & Burns and Allen Mchale’s Navy Bachelor Father Father Knows Best Dennis the Menace Hazel My Favorite Martin I Dream Of Jeannie Bewitched That Girl and more!!!! That’s real nice of you to post that insight info regarding what antenna tv tentatively has planned for the rest of the year if that sticks! Yes it looks really good especially the Friday after Thanksgiving with the Black and White Shows ,The Thanksgiving Day Marathon of Thanksgiving episodes & antenna tv Classic Christmas Collection on Christmas Eve & The Yule Log/Christmas Through The Years on Christmas Day & the Last Call Marathon on New Year’s Eve! Hopefully they will Freshen the Schedule for the Fall but if not like you said I’ll enjoy and make the best on what’s available!

06-09-2023, 10:39 AM	#7
merlinjones Member Forum Regular Join Date: Dec 30, 2019 Location: los ángeles Posts: 931	Life is a state of mind. If you don't like the world as it exists, you certainly can live mostly in another simpler, more optimistic and reassuring era thanks to the plethora of digital subchannels. Streaming - same thing! My use of the new tech is to watch lovely remastered versions of Ozzie & Harriet, Dallas and classic Disney movies (the one that are available at least), etc.. And if not available we have DVD, blu-ray and other home video tech. No more need to endure current angst, darkness, disruption and lecturing. Choose the world you want to live in. A friend once said to me, "You can't stick your head in the sand like an ostrich" and I replied "You don't know me very well, do you?" As for Antenna TV I wish they had a better screen formatting and resolution like MeTV. And that Bewitched and Jeannie were in more accessible time slots for those of us who work during the day.

06-09-2023, 03:58 PM	#10
stevea 22 Years On Sitcoms Moderator Forum Legend Join Date: Aug 13, 2003 Location: Indy Posts: 44,445	What has happened with one Warner cartoons title (I think, backed by Looney Tunes Wiki Fandom) is that it was remastered/restored using the Turner-edited copy. Thus, potentially for all time, the library copy of the cartoon is a censored copy. If it's happened with one, it's happened with more.

06-09-2023, 07:12 PM	#11
PaperClips Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Feb 09, 2021 Posts: 316	The Point, the ONLY POINT of Antenna TV is to run commercials. That's it. Programming is an afterthought. They get the absolute cheapest programming they can (Just about every show is available for free on various streaming services) and just pile as many commercials in as they possibly can between scenes. Many scenes are cut or sped-up so they can fit in more commercials.

06-10-2023, 06:42 PM	#13
franciis Member Frequent Poster Join Date: May 09, 2021 Location: tn Posts: 469	TV as it used to be..Love feel good....shows....on Antenna tv channel...fun ..shows...to make world brighter/get one off their troubles....Nexstar tv bought Sincalir tv station a few yrs (2 1/2 ?) ago...added Rewind channel ..but there is still no Ant tv channel......they added Comet tv ..which had left for Rewind.....tv........Comet (Sinclair) tv came back and took place of TBD (Sinclair) channel...Charge (Sinclair) channel is still on lineup.......Still Only four subchannels.....Many Rewind (newer shows) r not funny.....some had a few seasons.....bad writing !! Wish Ant tv channel & Rewind channel was one channel or Ant tv would add......tv shows...1-Good Morning World....2-The Paul Lynn show...& 3rd.....Losta Luck....& many other numerous fun,fun old shows...like one local tv station did each weeknite...each Summer.Their slogan..was .......Tv as It Used To Be...