No, it was not - Colombia's was its own thing, though roughly similar more to ITV. Even then, though, it's in large part a variation of the typical Latin American TV model, though more fragmented.
Anyway, apologies for the derailment.
DuMont will make TV work: A TL
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Anyway, apologies for the derailment.
That's fine; I always saw production companies such as Jorge Barón, RTI, (pre-1998) Caracol and (pre-1998) RCN just like their (more or less) Dutch counterparts, although the comparisons to ITV is somehow right.
Ummm need to study that, but i found an amazing article someone made on english, must have been a biligiual colombian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programadora
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Yeah, they're A, the best, not #2
(Ironically in modern TDT TV, Canal 1 is not the first channel, that is caracol)
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So I've basically compiled a map showing the biggest markets (assuming ofc nothing changes), as well as a ranking of each. I think everyone's in agreement about a pan-New England super-DMA and shit.
DMA Rankings
Nothing ofc pretty much changes except for the fact that Boston and DC jump from 9th and 6th respectively to be at the top 5 behind NYC and LA.
DMA Rankings
- New York City (7,100,300)
- Los Angeles (5,276,600)
- Southern New England (4,094,520)
- Washington/Baltimore (3,566,660)
- Chicago (3,251,370)
- Philadelphia (2,816,850)
- Dallas/Fort Worth (2,622,070)
- Houston (2,423,360)
- San Francisco Bay Area (2,414,470)
- Atlanta (2,341,390)
Nothing ofc pretty much changes except for the fact that Boston and DC jump from 9th and 6th respectively to be at the top 5 behind NYC and LA.
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Yes, there will be. I'm actually pretty busy over the next couple of days, but I can see what I can do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAPA-TV. Affiliated with Dumont...ummm.
After watching the video of Becoming Warrior..maybe Dumont take warrior before Bruce Lee dies?(or his death is butterfly away?)
Ah yes, the station affiliated with the Cuban CMQ television network before the Revolution, and hence with all the major US networks (OK, some of them). From that to being owned by the same people currently under contract to program Colombia's Canal Uno while Telemundo became larger that it. How things change so quickly.
How small television tends to be, i got suprised when saw that..explain a lot of thing both PR, Col and USA too..
There's a series of articles, in both Spanish and English, by an academic (forgot her name, unfortunately), about the huge Cuban influence on Latin American television, because after the Revolution Cuban TV industry workers dispersed like crazy throughout LatAm in an elusive attempt to recreate what they lost back home, using her native Puerto Rico as her case study since the Island is one of the few areas of US television history that is rarely ventured. The story of the history of television that she describes is very fascinating and is more than can be described in Wikipedia articles, and serves as an important chapter in the history oof US Spanish-language television. I'd love to see a TL based on that work alone and thus make PR television stations more of a major player than OTL.
That is older, much older, all of TV come of Cuba in the carribean and north south america(that is why everyone sans brazil or argentina adopted NTSC as was the same standard). Telenovelas were heavily influence both chinese theatre and japanese noh as much of early producers were chinese or japanese living in cuba and working on TV impregnated that style for the new and upcoming television novela to make them different of the heavily popular radio dramas.
The thing is, how the station is affiliated to dumont, that way english series subbed and dubbed to spanish could be exported via WAPA.,
Being a comics fanboy, this is an interesting development to to me as this is around the same decade that Kinney National Company bought DC Comics and later Warner Bros. to form Warner Communications. Does this mean that the Silver Age of Comics proceeds as it did more or less in OTL with the revival of the superhero genre and the rise of Marvel Comics? Assuming this to be the case it will be interesting to see it characters like Captain Atom, Blue Beetle, and the Question rise to prominence.
It is the same decade as those acquisitions occurred although DC Comics was officially known at that time as National Periodical Publications and Warner Bros. at the time of the Kinney buyout was officially known as Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, Inc. (The Seven-Arts was deleted from the company name afterwards) these acquisitions occurred in 1967 and 1969 respectively. Warner Communications was actually formed in 1972 after Kinney spun off all of their non entertainment assets into a separate company called National Kinney Company and changed it's name to to the aforementioned Warner Communications Inc.
The Silver Age has proceeded this far as OTL, the real butterflies from this will begin in the 70s. And the characters you mentioned will be prominent in that.
Yes, I still am - along with being super-busy and on top of computer woes. I'll see what I can do over the next couple of weeks, just to let the OP get on with tbe TL. If I get access to a physical keyboard earlier, than my Part III can come in due course.
I should note, though, that if the butterflies are played right then the WGBH fire does not occur. Part of the reason for the fire occurring when it did IOTL was problems with the studio space, as you probably could tell from the link I posted. So once the LICBC moves out of Symphony Hall's basement with TV coming along, something needs to be done.
Also, one other thing - as Louisiana demonstrated, it could be possible to have a PBS-affiliated religious TV station owned by the Catholic Church (potentially TTL's WIHS equivalent) and 'GBH coexisting at the same time. One does not need to preclude the other. If one grabs the VHF noncommercial frequency the other would be on UHF - as mentioned, independent stations in New England as a region historically was always on UHF, so I'm not too worried about concerns over getting an extra VHF station. What I am concerned about is noncommercial television. Here, too, in New England's case noncommercial stations would also take up the slack normally done by local commercial TV stations due to the unique situation in Southern New England, as I see it. If DuMont can make commercial TV work in the US, we'll see what can be done with New England.
However, let's assume that despite butterflies and all that WGBH's OTL Mass Ave studios still goes up in smoke -
What needs to be mentioned here is that the fire was THE headline news in the Boston area for months on end. Despite having everything the station built up gone up in smoke, it was still determined to get back on air. Because it was before public broadcasting became in its thing with educational broadcasting on a shoestring budget, every scrap of cash was essential in rebuilding the station. The fundraising drives were a massive sensation in the press and elsewhere, and commercial TV did its bit until WGBH got temporary studios up and running for a bit until new permanent studios were completed, including even in the Museum of Science. Here, too, if WGBH cannot considate into temporary studios ITTL and thus remain encamped in various areas throughout Boston, the local commercial TV stations, along with the existing LICBC members, would feel like they are helping out as stakeholders. TTL's WNAC, for example - the DuMont affiliate - was one station IOTL which played host to some WGBH programming. DuMont could contribute much more ITTL if it wanted too, including new equipment - even if surplus - since like the other stations in Boston WGBH would be seen not as a competitor but as a complement. Much like what we are seeing now with Notre Dame's restoration, it's possible each of the stations try to outdo each other in big-money donations to WGBH as a prestige project (for the Boston market is still small enough that everyone involved with the industry still know each other). That is due to the strength of the impact WGBH had in Eastern New England even within the span of a couple of years. WGBH in TTL would be more reliant on its flegdling network of stations, which could change the direction of the station's future - which once I can use a physical keyboard I can elaborate in detail. It also will depend on if the FCC can yank WHDH off the air due to problems with the Boston Herald and where the noncommercial channels are placed. All would be essential in redefining educational broadcasting ITTL.
Just FYI, the reason I haven't put out an update in a couple of weeks is because I've been quite busy myself, not necessarily because I'm waiting on part III. my next update isn't really contingent on that content, I am awaiting it with bated breath like everyone else though. Take your time.