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RTV is going digital;WNGS takes a hiatus

Published:June 12, 2009, 6:58 AM

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Updated: August 20, 2010, 11:45 PM

One digital TV station will be premiering and one analog TV station will be leaving the air temporarily Friday, the day of the nationwide digital conversion.

Channel 2 General Manager Jim Toellner said today that he plans to have the newly renamed RTV, the classic TV network formerly known as RTN, up and running on one of the station’s digital channels on Friday.

RTV, which carries such programs as “The Rockford Files,” “Magnum, P. I.,” “Leave it to Beaver,” “Wagon Train” and “Marcus Welby,” will appear on digital channel Channel 2.3. It will not initially be carried on local cable or satellite services but Toellner said he received a verbal agreement with Verizon today for RTV to be carried on FiOS.

Meanwhile, WNGS-TV, where RTV was carried as RTN, has told Time Warner Cable that it will be ceasing broadcasting Friday but will return some time this summer after it completes its construction of its digital facility. The station is ceasing broadcasting because its analog signal won’t operate Friday after the digital conversion starts.

WNGS primarily had been running a package of movies. TWC will keep WNGS on Channel 11 and allow it to run a crawl stating its plans. The station was recently sold by Equity Broadcasting to a religious broadcast group, Daystar Television Network.

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