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Does anyone know when Ch. 27 is going to be launching the RTN subchannel

I hope soon... www.rtnville.com shows it on their map!
Great channel, if you can't wait i suggest WBAY 2-3 or satellite

RTN will sign on in september/october according to WKOW.

December 1st

Are they still planning on being up on Dec. 1?
They have the 27-1 feed on 27-2 now but without sound.

I would hope so, it looks like the worked out the problems with the program guide, Does anyone know if its on air in Rockford, LaCrosse or Wausau

Well dec. 1 is here and no RTN  :'( I don't know what there waiting for someone should call them.

I tried to call but got a robot voice telling me the office was closed, Ill send an e-mail and hope for the best

27 = fail

Stupid WKOW once again get my hopes up for Nothing!!!

yeah me too first it was fall then dec still nothing thanks wkow  >:(

I bet if they wanted to they probebly could of thrown it up in june/july. Mabye I should call the newsline and ask, I find it newsworthy that they cant seem to get a channel that they've been anticipating for about a year up. Other madison stations seem to be much more organised in the subchannel buisness for example 15-2 one month planing 2 days testing bingo.

They should say something about it on the 10 news that would be great. wkow is moving at snail speed come on wkow

It's interesting that WKOW hasn't said a word about RTN since the initial press release. You would think they would promote it as coming soon on 27.1 so that they could start selling commercial time right away...

I did in fact call, they said that the line was only for news  ;D

did they give you number to call then or are  they being clowns about the whole thing???

I really wish RTN will go live on 27-2 it is a great channel as I have seen in on the C-band satellite dish.  I recommend watching Unrealiable Sources now and then if 27-2 does show it.   http://www.rtnville.com/

RTN 27-2 has not been uplinked on the satellite yet... So dont blame WKOW it might be Equity Media (RTN's parent company) holding up the process.

well rtn is up kinda there playing the same thing as 27.1  :-X got my hopes up for nothing again

They changed the epg, now instead of "DTV Programing" is says "WKOW RTN" and the info says "RTN Network." I swear if i dont see black and white on my TV screen in the next 24 hours they better look out.  ;D

Yeah it better be up. I am getting so sick of waiting for rtn.

Here are the shows I'm not watching tonight:   
According to Jim, Eli Stone,27 News @ 10,Nightline,Jimmy Kimmel Live
Who's with me?

Me, Law & Order is on 15-1 :)

 ??? :'( i really wish they would just say something on there website or something it's really getting old >:(

Yeah me too. I wish they would just say something about it on the news or their website. It's really weird they have not said anything about it and yet they have been planing it for so long. ???

It's 11:34 and I'm now watching Quincy on RTN!
The titantv listing shows coming soon.
The on screen program guide is still empty.
Noon show is Emergency.
1pm is Kojak.
2pm is Simon & Simon.
3pm is Rockford Files.
4pm is Adam-12.
4:30 is Dragnet.
5pm is The Incredible Hulk.

YES! ITZ ON BABY!

Looks like our one day protest worked... nice working with you, Cheese!

yeah good job everyone i love this channel  :)

now 47 and 57 need to get crack a lacking and get a 2nd channel up!!!

I've watched a few minutes of unreliable sources and it just seems so random to have a network of old shows and then throw in a live call in show (which would work just as well on radio). If that's what it takes to make the channel stay afloat that's ok but I don't see myself watching it much.

Did watch rtn at 2:00 after a nightmare. Neither Alfred Hitckock nor Rod Serling's programs helped. There was not but black with a logon on at 7 this morning. The 10:00 talk show last night was rather lame -- too bad they did not have interesting topic and the callers were rather boring. I might watch the station occasionally.  ::)

The talk show (unreliable sources) use to be on only two nights a week and now it seems that they are taking it too far.  It is based in Little Rock, AR which isn't the same as our Madison audience.

I like good subchannels like RTN, Music... but 15-2 weather is pointless and more than two subchannels just takes too much bandwidth from the HD channel.

Talkshow...I could do with out. Most of the caller were stoner hillbillys, but other than that it was great!

The talk show could be interesting if they had actors from the series they show on or calling in with stories. It looks like they are also going to be adding a daytime entertainment type show in the future as well. Someone must be telling them they need current content to pay the bills.

Looks like they still have some kinks to work out. The picture locks up on occasion. Like it is right now for the last several minutes (Wed 4:15 pm). I have seen this happen several times, once for at least an hour.

The titantv listings just have the generic program descriptions now. I thought they had the detailed ones before or did I dream that?

WKOW is showing 27.1 content on 27.2 and the RTN website is down. A quick google of RTN brought up  this site with some info: http://www.satelliteguys.us/ .
Maybe this is why 27 didn't promote it so far?

Did watch several hours of old music videos yesterday on 27.2 until sometime in the late afternoon/evening when it switched over to 27.1 programming. Hope they can find another service provider soon. Of course, they could make arrangements to air the local cable access station (WYOU) or one of the religious stations such as 3ABN until something else comes along. Apparently it is not easy to find alternate programming for these sub-channels. Perhaps this is why there is nothing on 47 or 57 except for the main channel.

Dennis

The website is now: http://www.myretrotv.com/ .
Another article is here: http://www.tvnewsday.com/articles/2009/01/05/daily.5/ .
That one gives the impression it will be back in a few days.

Mabye we could convince wiegal to let us have MeTV

I called WKOW today regarding no RTN programs. The person I talked to said RTN was having money problems and it was unlikely it would be back on the digital channel. She said they were waiting for word from RTN, and then channel 27 would decide what to do next. I really liked these old shows. I hope they can work something out and continue to broadcast them. It's been a boring past 2 days without them, that's for sure. I hate what's on regular tv nowadays. Other than the PBS channels.

I've read elsewhere that service has been restored to some affiliates.  I hope to see the return of RTN here soon as I love this channel.

RTN is back.  woohoo!

RTN is back here too. Yipeeeeee.  Hope it stays now. I love it too.

And they are showing Night Gallery at 10pm instead of the call in show. I hope the call in show doesn't have to come back.

Has anyone else noticed that programming goes off at midnight & nothing but info commericals are on until 6am?
Also since RTN came back on, we have had the same programs showing as the week/weekend before.
I hope this isn't a bad sign that there is still a problem getting RTN programming.
Anyone heard anything on it since the problems of 2 weeks ago?

I noticed that too. My guess is that they didn't keep track of where stations where and put everyone back to the same spot in episodes. They also seemed to have different shows on each night at 10 pm. This would be ok if they actually had correct listings somewhere.

It would also be nice if they included more comedy. They are very heavy with the crime shows right now and some comedy mixed in would make for a better mix in my opinion.
Hitchcock is a great show but when they follow it with Night Gallery it all just kind of blends together.

Yes, that would be a nice break. We only get McCale's Navy, Operation Petticoat, Bachelor Father and Leave it to Beaver between 5am-7amm. The rest are crime shows, which I do love, and 2 medical shows. It would be nice to have it broken up a bit more. Also, shows on after midnight, not commericals for 5-6 hours. They seem to forget us folks who work the later shifts and want to watch some good tv to unwind when we get home. Go figure?????

Anyone else noticing the high rate of repeats already? The Emergency! episode that is airing right now aired last week I think. I saw on some other message boards that this appears to be happening at all of the stations. I had high hopes for this station but they really aren't living up to the expectations.

I'm hoping that it has something to do with their "re-boot".  Ever since the station came back on air, the Hulk episodes were repeating from a short while before that point.  Don't give up hope yet.

RTN now on charter channel 967 does anybody know when they put that channel on?  I guess you don't need antenna to get that channel anymore.

Rtn already has. thou i wish they would show the episodes where sin-ging & string-fello switched on airwolf.