{"id":5252,"date":"2014-08-27T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5252"},"modified":"2014-08-26T01:14:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T06:14:25","slug":"kgan-kdsm-add-classic-movie-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/kgan-kdsm-add-classic-movie-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"KGAN, KDSM add classic movie channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never heard of &#8220;GetTV&#8221; (or, as it is in the press release, &#8220;getTV&#8221; even at the beginning of a sentence) <a href=\"http:\/\/buddyhollywood.com\/gettv-expands-footprint\/\">but it&#8217;s showing up in two Iowa TV markets.<\/a> It&#8217;s a deal between Sony Pictures Television and Sinclair Broadcasting to show classic movies. The channel, 2.2 or 17.2, bumps the music channels on KGAN and KDSM to the .3.<\/p>\n<p>And while I&#8217;m on the subject of TV changes, Mediacom is adding CBS Sports Network to expanded basic cable \u2014 but there appears to be a catch. <a href=\"http:\/\/mediacomtoday-lineup.com\/lineup\/76\/altoona_ankeny_bondurant_carlisle_clive_des_m.aspx\">The listings here<\/a>\u00a0are\u00a0said to be effective next Tuesday. CBSSN, along with the National Geographic Channel and FXX (which is currently showing a &#8220;Simpsons&#8221; marathon in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/8\/24\/6060887\/fxx-is-cropping-standard-definition-simpsons-episodes\">the wrong aspect ratio<\/a>), is marked as &#8220;Requires a Mediacom digital converter, a Mediacom digital adapter or cable card&#8221; while everything else in expanded basic says\u00a0&#8220;Requires a digital-ready TV, a Mediacom digital converter or a Mediacom digital adapter.&#8221; It&#8217;s a subtle difference, but it may mean that non-HD TVs are incapable of getting the channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never heard of &#8220;GetTV&#8221; (or, as it is in the press release, &#8220;getTV&#8221; even at the beginning of a sentence) but it&#8217;s showing up in two Iowa TV markets. It&#8217;s a deal between Sony Pictures Television and Sinclair Broadcasting &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/kgan-kdsm-add-classic-movie-channel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5253,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252\/revisions\/5253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}