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Message no. 1
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Rand Ratinac)
Subject: [OT] One fer yew damn Yankees...;)
Date: Wed Aug 22 08:45:01 2001
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Couple of questions for those who dwell within the
good ol' US of A, or who simply know stuff. :)

Firstly, the major network TV channels in America
(that I know about) are ABC, NBC and CBS. Are there
any others? Are there any local channels in New York?

Secondly, what are the names of the news programs on
these channels?

T'anks.

====Doc'
(aka Mr. Freaky Big, Super-Dynamic Troll of Tomorrow, aka Doc'booner, aka Doc' Vader)

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Message no. 2
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Phoenixia Ree)
Subject: [OT] One fer yew damn Yankees...;)
Date: Wed Aug 22 09:35:01 2001
<snip>
> Firstly, the major network TV channels in America
> (that I know about) are ABC, NBC and CBS. Are there
> any others? Are there any local channels in New York?

Well, I know Fox is pretty bid where I am. UPN is another netowork available
without cable or whatnot.

> Secondly, what are the names of the news programs on
> these channels?

Usually it's Ten o'clock news or something like that...at least for the
stuff that's up to date. *shrugs* Didn't want to bother making up names for
the news programs, I guess.

Phoe
Message no. 3
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Chris Shaffer)
Subject: [OT] One fer yew damn Yankees...;)
Date: Wed Aug 22 10:35:02 2001
>Firstly, the major network TV channels in America
>(that I know about) are ABC, NBC and CBS. Are there
>any others? Are there any local channels in New York?

Fox and UPN are the second-tier broadcast channels. But perhaps 75% or
more households have cable TV, thus you need to include things like CNN
Headline News. For New York stations, see
http://www.newsdirectory.com/tv/ny/ .

> Secondly, what are the names of the news programs on
>these channels?

Almost every channel has a local news show in addition to the station's
national news. So, for example, in Chicago on the ABC station, there's
World News Tonight with Peter Jennings (daily, national), ABC7 News (daily,
local city/state news), three ABC 20/20 newsmagazine shows (each about once
a week), and various other news programs. You might find TV Guide useful,
see http://www.tvguide.com/ . Try the listings link and enter zip codes
http://www.citidex.com/map/zipco800.html .

Of course, virtually nothing on TV news in the US is actually newsworthy or
even worthy of much at all (aside from being thrown in the trash
bin). It's all crap that's not worth watching.


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Message no. 4
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Graht)
Subject: [OT] One fer yew damn Yankees...;)
Date: Wed Aug 22 12:25:02 2001
At 01:41 PM 8/22/2001 +0100, Rand Ratinac wrote:
>Couple of questions for those who dwell within the
>good ol' US of A, or who simply know stuff. :)
>
>Firstly, the major network TV channels in America
>(that I know about) are ABC, NBC and CBS.

ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, UPN, WB, and PBS.

ABC, NBC and CBS have national news. In Denver NBC, CBS, ABC, and WB have
local news, while PBS carries an assortment of local programming (kind of
like a local versions of Meet The Press). In other cities FOX, UPN and WB
may or may not have local news.

>Secondly, what are the names of the news programs on
>these channels?

The name of local news programs is usually a combination of the channel
number and the word "news" and/or "channel". For example in Denver
it's
News4, Channel 7 News, and 9News.

To Life,
-Graht
ShadowRN Assistant Fearless Leader II
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Message no. 5
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Jason Spadaro)
Subject: [OT] One fer yew damn Yankees...;)
Date: Wed Aug 22 15:10:01 2001
You can't forget central New York's local PBS station.... WCNY. I
don't watch it much, but they run Red Dwarf every saturday night. The
shows funny as hell IMO. Thinking about it, PBS is kinda like the NERPS
of american TV. People watch it, but don't necessarily want to pay for
it. :)

-Cthulhupunk
Message no. 6
From: shadowrn@*********.com (C J Tipton)
Subject: [OT] One fer yew damn Yankees...;)
Date: Wed Aug 22 18:05:00 2001
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:32:20 -0500 Chris Shaffer <chris@*****.net>
writes:
>
> >Firstly, the major network TV channels in America
> >(that I know about) are ABC, NBC and CBS. Are there
> >any others? Are there any local channels in New York?
>
> Fox and UPN are the second-tier broadcast channels.

Second tier. Ya. And don't forget the WB. Between the three of them,
they've been kickin' the
"major networks" candy-a--es all over prime time for years. The problem
with the old TV dinosaurs
is that the much larger, more vicious, and better equipped Motion Picture
dinosaurs decided they wanted the playground. Doesn't matter much though:
I figure Ted Turner owns more broadcasting space than anybody.

Cowboy(Spears Ted Turner)
CJ
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Message no. 7
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Rand Ratinac)
Subject: [OT] One fer yew damn Yankees...;)
Date: Wed Aug 22 18:05:07 2001
> >Firstly, the major network TV channels in America
> >(that I know about) are ABC, NBC and CBS.
>
> ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, UPN, WB, and PBS.
<snipt!(TM)>

You guys rock. :)

Thanks to everyone who helped me with this one.

====Doc'
(aka Mr. Freaky Big, Super-Dynamic Troll of Tomorrow, aka Doc'booner, aka Doc' Vader)

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Message no. 8
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Iridios)
Subject: [OT] One fer yew damn Yankees...;)
Date: Wed Aug 22 18:10:01 2001
Rand Ratinac wrote:
>
> Couple of questions for those who dwell within the
> good ol' US of A, or who simply know stuff. :)
>
> Firstly, the major network TV channels in America
> (that I know about) are ABC, NBC and CBS. Are there
> any others? Are there any local channels in New York?

1st tier networks would be NBC, ABC, CBS, and FOX. Fox is the upstart
of the group, only reaching 1st tier within the past 10 years (give or
take). Generally they are considered 1st tier because they have true
broadcast coverage (not cable) over most of the nation. 2nd tier
networks are like UPN, WB, and WGN, which have some broadcast coverage,
but depend mostly on cable operations. Fox was second tier so it's
possible to move from second to first, just not likely.

3rd tier operations would be operations which are primarily cable based,
TNT, TBS, SciFi, MTV, and the like. Some of these may or may not be
nationally known, as the cable operators pretty much decide who they
will and will not carry. This makes networks like TNT a sure thing
since it's owned by Ted Turner who also owns Time Warner Cable, a major
US cable operator.

>
> Secondly, what are the names of the news programs on
> these channels?

The network news shows are ABC News, CBS News, and etc. Local
affiliates often include their broadcast channel and/or callsign (ABC 7
is NY, NY's local affiliate). In some cable markets a major
metropolitan affiliate can be found on one cable channel while a smaller
'local' affiliate is found on a different channel. In my market I get a
local and a NY affialiate for each of the big 4 networks, but the local
Fox affiliate shares news resources with the local ABC affiliate.
Around here the local affiliates use their callsigns and broadcast
channel, while the NY ones just use Network and channel or NY and
channel.

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Message no. 9
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Damian Sharp)
Subject: [OT] One fer yew damn Yankees...;)
Date: Thu Aug 23 00:25:01 2001
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Phoenixia Ree wrote:

> <snip>
> > Firstly, the major network TV channels in America
> > (that I know about) are ABC, NBC and CBS. Are there
> > any others? Are there any local channels in New York?
>
> Well, I know Fox is pretty bid where I am. UPN is another netowork available
> without cable or whatnot.

Also, the WB network seems decently big. Though UPN & WB seem to be
networks that ride along with other local networks. I know in the Boston
area, WB is on WLVI, and UPN is on TV38, and I understand it's different,
in other areas, whereas ABC, NBC & CBS are their own stations. (Though
someone may say I'm totally wrong).

> > Secondly, what are the names of the news programs on
> > these channels?
>
> Usually it's Ten o'clock news or something like that...at least for the
> stuff that's up to date. *shrugs* Didn't want to bother making up names for
> the news programs, I guess.

That does seem to be the standard. The <Time> News is the standard news,
with a bunch of other 'news magazine' style shows, generally covering pop
culture.

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Message no. 10
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Ken Hart)
Subject: [OT] One fer yew damn Yankees...;)
Date: Thu Aug 23 13:15:03 2001
Thus did Doc write:
> Secondly, what are the names of the news programs on
> these channels?

As others have posted, the local news programs all have different names,
but the names of the national broadcasts (which air at 6:30, at least on
the East Coast) for the "Big Three" are as follows:
CBS: The CBS Evening News
ABC: World News Tonight
NBC: The Nightly News

The WB, UPN, and Fox don't have national news programs, but Fox's sister
cable station, the Fox News Channel, is a 24-hour news channel, like CNN
and NBC's cable sibling, MSNBC.

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