Retro Television gone?

By Eric O Brien

Pittsburgh: From DCRTV: The Retro TV Network (RTN) has apparently gone belly-up due to lack of advertising revenue. We're a little confused though because a check of the channel (A.K.A. "11.3") over the weekend still seemed to show classic programming from between the 1950s and 80s. If this is true, then it's a double whammy for WPXI and their digital subchannels. NBC discontinued its "Weather Plus" which aired on 11.2 up until the beginning of December 2008. Nothing has replaced it yet.

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Posted at January 05, 2009 at 08:11 am by






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I just checked Comcast channel 207 where Quincy should be airing right now (1:00 PM.) Emergency is on which normally is on at 3 PM.
Bill - January 05, 2009 at 1:32 pm

RTN is not dead. DCRTV erroneously reported that yesterday despite repeated e-mails about how wrong it was. http://www.tvnewsday.com/articles/2009/0..
Trip Ericson (URL) - January 05, 2009 at 1:55 pm

Great! I guess I won’t be watching any more reruns of “Ironside.”
Chuck - January 05, 2009 at 3:21 pm

Bev Smith spent some time on KDKA in the evenings…
Bob - January 05, 2009 at 3:48 pm

This appears to be a financial dispute affecting only certain affiliates — check out details provided in this story: http://www.tvnewsday.com/articles/2009/0..
Richard Emery - January 05, 2009 at 4:58 pm

Looks like it is still there.. Wikipedia has more info about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retro_Telev..

doesn’t look like all markets are losing it.
jason - January 05, 2009 at 7:26 pm

In Pittsburgh, I am now getting RTN on both 11.2 and 11.3. However, the quality has deteriorated. Transitions show rippling boxes, which I never had before. Does anyone else have the same problem?
Jack - January 16, 2009 at 2:56 pm

What happened to the program, “Unreliable Sources”?
Is it still airing in the Pittsburgh Area?
Also, does anyone know why their channel guide for the RTN Channel is not correct in the Pittsburgh area?
Alan Mandel - January 26, 2009 at 03:06 am

RTN in Pittsburgh is now 11.2. The channel guide is old and I guess we have to wait for it to be updated. As far as Unreliable Sources, I cannot understand why this is on RTN when I expect only to see old reruns from past decades. What bugs me is that we also have to now put up with misplaced interruptions by very annoying ads. Gone are the retro-commercials which I found very interesting.
Jack - January 27, 2009 at 12:41 pm

unreliable sources is on at 11 to 12 at night.
dawn a - March 12, 2009 at 4:23 pm

  
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