Christopher Cormier

We send a SD feed to Fayetteville via a large fiber mux sent through Time Warner. Fayetteville not only gets its own morning weather and traffic cameras but also gets localized commercials. Today the audio went out. We checked it on our  side of the mux, audio sounds great. After an hour Time Warner calls back to tell us they are on the backup which is our main feed and appears to be topping out at -20db on the audio. They seem to be satisfied and have headed home. I wonder how much it would take to make them to stick around and work to  reestablish the original feed?

We launched This Network on WRAL.2 This week. Everyone pitched in to make it pretty painless. There were a few glitches this morning but the guys in Operations were able to roll with the punches and make it work.

I picked up the rest of the hardware package from WRAZ today and plan on installing it next week. This will allow us to insert local advertising and brand the network locally, which is a good thing. I don’t suspect you’ll notice much difference for the next few weeks.

The programming is pretty diverse with what I hear is about 4000 titles to choose from the extensive MGM catalog.

I look forward to tuning in.