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Over the Christmas 2022 season Hangin with Mr. Cooper aired over Christmas weekend and Step By Step aired over New Years weekend in marathons.

Now it looks like they have added Family Matters and Step By Step to the regular lineup airing Friday nights from 10pm eastern to 2am eastern and again on Saturday mornings from 8am eastern to 2pm eastern.

On Friday nights they air 4 episodes of Family Matters first from 10pm to midnight / 9pm-11pm central and then Step by Step from Midnight to 2am eastern/ 11pm-1am central.

On Saturday mornings they air Step by Step from 8am-10am /7am-9am central then Family Matters from 10am to Noon/9am-11am central. Then they air another 2 hour block of Step by Step from Noon to 2pm/11am-1pm central.

In the commercial breaks they advertise it under the Comfort Food Block.
 
How many times has Tru TV changed their format? It was the original Court TV. and then it was switched to reality programming. As time went on most of that programming was switched to being more comedy based, and now they're adding back sitcom reruns. except for the time with March Madness.. If WBD wants to drop channels they could merge it into TBS.
 
There are other Discovery-Warner owned networks that should merge. After 4PM during the week and after 2PM on Saturdays and Sunday Discovery Family is nothing but reruns from their sister networks - Animal Planet, Food Network, HGTV, TLC, etc. Destination America has lots of reruns from HGTV. OWN too with reruns of House Hunters and reruns of Love it or List It. Discovery Life has reruns of old shows from TLC. And why not just shut down TLC all together? It's the all morbid obesity channel. Who the **** watches that crap - 1000lb Sisters and My 600 pound Life?

P.S. There are also some Paramount owned networks that should be merged and some from Comcast/NBC-Universal as well.
 
HLN can probably be folded into another Discovery channel at this point. Almost non-stop Forsenic Files. And looking at the upcoming week of programming on OWN it looks like virtually all the original OWN prime time programming is gone, only Friday night has new programming. Sad.
 
MarcB said:
And why not just shut down TLC all together? It's the all morbid obesity channel. Who the **** watches that crap - 1000lb Sisters and My 600 pound Life?
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Make no mistake, there are fetishists out there who crave it. Also, for others it either triggers empathy and emotion, or it's like the proverbial train reck. Regardless, someone must be watching, or they'd have pulled it. Original programming ain't cheap to produce and they must have a reason to make and air the stuff.
 
anotherguyTN said:
How many times has Tru TV changed their format? It was the original Court TV. and then it was switched to reality programming. As time went on most of that programming was switched to being more comedy based, and now they're adding back sitcom reruns. except for the time with March Madness.. If WBD wants to drop channels they could merge it into TBS.
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More like merge all the sub brands within WB to HBO Max given the current situation.
 
TVCOOL said:
Hopefully WB Discovery drop these not needed additional channels.
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They make money selling 20 channels to operators. It gives them leverage over just having 1 channel. They will argue that people who like OWN can’t have it if these other 10 channels are not offered. It’s a packaged deal and as long as they are making money paying for 30 transponders they will do it.
 
Don CT said:
They make money selling 20 channels to operators. It gives them leverage over just having 1 channel. They will argue that people who like OWN can’t have it if these other 10 channels are not offered. It’s a packaged deal and as long as they are making money paying for 30 transponders they will do it.
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This is what we ran into with Comcast just last month when they upped our bill by more than $10/month and we called to ask if there were ways to reduce it. They basically explained we have the base plan which everyone must have. Because we watch our local RSNs for NBA and MLB games, we had to buy the entire sports package that comes with a bunch of channels we don't watch. Because we watch things like HGTV and Food Network, we had to buy the entire package which I think he called "lifestyle programming" that also provides a bunch of programming we don't care about. Everything else was taxes and fees which Comcast can't alter or reduce. So our options were to 1) Drop one or both of the packages we have; 2) Suck it up and pay the increased rate, or 3) Consider dropping Comcast altogether.

For us and what we pay vs. cutting cable and moving to streaming services for everything we regularly watch, Comcast is still an OK value - That may change if they increase rates again or the RSNs we watch go away due to the mess Bally Sports is in financially.
 
Mikey Radio said:
This is what we ran into with Comcast just last month when they upped our bill by more than $10/month and we called to ask if there were ways to reduce it.
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Mine just went up $60. This is why cable companies are fighting with channels all the time, and why they drop channels like Newsmax or some of the others. It's not about free speech. It's about paying more for cable. If politicians want to fix that, they should pass a bill controlling the price of TV.
 
TheBigA said:
Mine just went up $60. This is why cable companies are fighting with channels all the time, and why they drop channels like Newsmax or some of the others. It's not about free speech. It's about paying more for cable. If politicians want to fix that, they should pass a bill controlling the price of TV.
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Cable companies are not afraid to tack on useless charges either.
 
TheBigA said:
Mine just went up $60. This is why cable companies are fighting with channels all the time, and why they drop channels like Newsmax or some of the others. It's not about free speech. It's about paying more for cable. If politicians want to fix that, they should pass a bill controlling the price of TV.
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Correct, but the politicians screaming the loudest and seemingly wielding the most power right now are happy to force dish and cable systems to carry Newsmax, OANN and ensure Fox News is on one of the lower channels in the lineup where it's easiest to find, while they'd be just as happy to jettison networks like Bravo and Logo TV (too gay), BET (too racial and friendly toward BLM), etc.
 
Mikey Radio said:
Correct, but the politicians screaming the loudest and seemingly wielding the most power right now are happy to force dish and cable systems to carry Newsmax,
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But that doesn't prevent the company from passing those fees on to customers, which is what happens.
 
TheBigA said:
But that doesn't prevent the company from passing those fees on to customers, which is what happens.
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Agreed, the cable/dish systems need to pay for the content somehow, especially if they're forced to carry it, but the point is that, like education, here is one more sector that's being dictated to by politicians and their ideologies, rather than those companies being able to manage their businesses in the same manner they always have, using formulas that have traditionally worked just fine.

If the network or station was popular and they could come to financial terms with the cable provider, they stay. If no one is watching and/or they can't come to a reasonable agreement with the cable or dish provider, they'd go dark or get replaced. Now with politics and ideology injected, it's not so simple. It may cost all of us financially in the longer-term or cause more people to cut cable/dish due to rising costs and it's their business that suffers.
 
Mikey Radio said:
Correct, but the politicians screaming the loudest and seemingly wielding the most power right now are happy to force dish and cable systems to carry Newsmax, OANN and ensure Fox News is on one of the lower channels in the lineup where it's easiest to find, while they'd be just as happy to jettison networks like Bravo and Logo TV (too gay), BET (too racial and friendly toward BLM), etc.
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Logo isn't even an LGBTQ network anymore. They moved RU-Paul's Drag Race over to VH-1 a couple years ago and then over to MTV this year. Paramount can really just change the name of Logo to TVLAND-2. This is what their line-up looks like.

Monday-Friday
4AM-10AM Bewitched
10AM-3PM Facts of Life
3PM-1AM Various Classic Sitcoms depending on the day includes: The Nanny, Old Christine, 3's Company, Mama's Family
1AM-4AM Will & Grace

Saturdays
1AM-11AM The Nanny
11AM Satuday-1PM Sunday Married with Children

Sundays
1PM-8PM Mama's Family
8PM-4AM 3's Company
 
I have seen HGTV and Food Network shows on TBS and TNT now.
 
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