"Joe,
I am sure most everyone has seen two different spots on WBOC claiming that satellite companies wont carry our local broadcasts. One spot in particular suggests that a weather personality on channel 16 & 21 attempted to calm and reassure local kids of impending dangerous weather. This service was only availible to households with external antennas or cable subscribers. It further states that children who watch TV broadcasts via satellite dishes would not benefit from this service. If this local service is desired, it forces Direct-TV and other satellite customers to purchase and use an outside antenna to receive these local signals. This is misdirected information. The satellite companies will carry local programming! Our local stations have prohibited the use of our local signals for satellite redistribution because major networks i.e. CBS,ABC are carried by close major markets as well. Meaning if you would watch CBS on a dish and chose the Baltimore affiliate instead of the local affiliate, you would be watching advertisement's from another locale.Translation, why should local advertisers spend their dollars for advertising that will not have a local captive audience? These statements made by WBOC are misleading at best! Tell the truth WBOC!"
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AND, now that this subject has been brought up....did anybody else get creeped out by "uncle Dennis"? It sounds like he's a pedophile.
ReplyDeleteIt was bad enough when it was happening, but to have the manager bring it up again so much later is disturbing.
I can't understand why the government allows these local stations to have a captive audience. In every other industry in the US they want "free trade". Why not with television? The Dish Network has a good plan at under $20. If you add the $5 for local networks, it's still under $25.
ReplyDeleteWhat people need to realize is without competition, cable can charge whatever they want. In the last 25 years, cable has gone from $7.75 a month to $54.95. What else has gone up that much?
Contact your representatives and tell them you want this Monopoly to come to an end. We ALL would benefit from it.
This is typical of the media now days! It is called a lie! They have to lie to the public. That's why I don't view 16 .
ReplyDeleteThere is a difference in misleading
and a down right lie!
I can't watch a WBOC newscast, it's 80% weather, 19% fluff, and 1% of the news they want you to hear. Who gives a crap about the weather? Look out the window! I love that they cut sports to 60 seconds, poor sports guy trying to speedread 5 minutes worth of sports in 1 minute time. I'm not a sports fan at all, but I'd rather see 2 of Ketterer's spots removed and 1 replaced with sports, the other with REAL news. (actually replace all 3 of his spots completely). WBOC has what 2 rookie reporters now? They don't actually investigate anything, or report from the scene of anything. All they do is reword AP press releases and put some flash graphics with it. And that ridiculous consumer reports segment Steve Hammond does, give me a break. WMDT certainly tries to put alot more news out there, sure it looks like a high school station, but I actually can find out what's going on.
ReplyDeleteI want to watch CBS 2 New York & LA on my satellite, not WBOC. Why should I not have that choice?
Ah, the WBOC STORM TRACKER WEATHER TEAM... you have the ditzy bobblehead blonde guy in the morning. You have the 2 smoker chicks in the afternoon/weekends. They're like a younger version of Patti & Selma from the Simpsons, except their dirty blonde hair is green from the years of smoking. Then you have creepy "Uncle Dennis", where to even start with him. Bring back BBK! It was fun to watch the weather with him, you never knew when he was going to start choking and just keel over live on air.
ReplyDeleteWho cares what tomorrows weather is like? I work 7 days a week, the weather is the same every single day 68 and florescent.
PS: women PLEASE stop with the smoking and tanning. Either one makes a 22 y/o look 35, and a 35 year old look 60. Pale looks fine, way better than leathery orange.
anonymous 8:56,
ReplyDeleteHelp is on the way. That's right, Joe Albero won the Weather Man spot yesterday at the Red Cross Auction. Sopon enough you will see me on the Air doing the Weather. This is not a joke.
soon, sorry.
ReplyDeleteI saw one of those spots yeaterday, and all I could think was, "Liar! Liar! Liar!" In fact I believe I said it aloud.
ReplyDeleteWe have found that we live too close to the broadcasting towers of the local stations, which means the signals bounce all around and we can't get them in clearly. My husband has called both local tv stations to ask for an exemption, and they absoluely refuse, so we pay extra to our satellite provider to get ABC and CBS from distant cities. One of them is Atlanta, and I forget where the other one is from.
We can't get Comcast where we live, which really ticks me off, since Comcast has an exclusive contract with Wicomico County for cable service, and they pay the Council money for this. About 2 years ago, a development went up (with big, high dollar houses) one and a half miles down the road from us. Comcast wasted no time going down RT. 50 to get cable to these houses, but refused to go just one and a half miles farther down the road to provide cable to the neighborhood where I have been living (and paying county property taxes) for nearly 29 years. So, Comcast, WBOC, and WMDT? You know where you can stick your Christmas trees.
We can't even get DSL from the phone company, so considering the high cost of satellite internet, we are stuck in the land of dial-up as well. My elderly father-in-law, who lives with us and doesn't like to wait for anything (I WANT IT NOW!!!) even tried wirelss service and found that what was available to him was only marginally faster than dial-up. But I digress.
Liar, liar, liar!
Grannydragon....I'd love to know the satellite provider that allows you to receive ABC and CBS from Atlanta. Also, you may want to try an inline antenna attenuator between your antenna and TV. I had the same problem with the proximity to the TV transmitters and it really helped. It is very inexpensive and easy to use. Simply turn a dial all the way to the right. Good Luck
ReplyDelete8:30 Your description of WBOC reporting is the same as Joeboy's reporting. No difference.
ReplyDeleteWell getting WBOC through Comcast really is something great. Their company is raising rates AGAIN and this time digital service is going from 72.95 a month to 77.95. If Comcast had some competition like VErizon's Cable service they reduce the cost pronto. I turned in my cable box and told them to shove off. I am tired of Wicomico County giving the exclusive cable contract to Comcast. Their service sucks anyway from CSR to the price gouging.
ReplyDeleteAnon 9:51:
ReplyDeleteWe have Dish Network, who referred us to a company called (I think) All-America Direct. They bill seperately, but the stations come in through Dish Network.
I spend as much time on my computer as I do watching TV. Because they are in seperate rooms and I can't see the TV weather alert roll on the bottom of the screen, I rely on WeatherBug on my computer. I typed in my zip code and the minute an alert is sent out it lets me know. The best thing is..It's free to download and in the past, has alerted me faster than any TV station.
ReplyDeleteto my mind, you can have wboc, wdmt and fox21. they are all repetitive programing anyhow.
ReplyDeletenothing you can't get somewhere else.