Dish TV customers. A couple weeks ago the local broadcast channel dropped METV.

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I was fortunate Dish carried METV on 247, then yesterday I found Dish dropped it also. That was one of my most watched channels.
No more Parry Mason, Twilight Zone, Adam 12, Dragnet, Highway Patrol all the stuff us old guys watch.

[LakeArenal]

1. Bummer. No more Mafisto?

[underpants]

2. HD antenna

Our local NBC affiliate has Me TV as one of its 4 channels. Each network affiliate has 3-4 channels. Sometimes it’s just a running weather loop. Yes. We’ve gone back to that, the antenna.

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3. The local Tv dropped it a couple weeks ago too. nt

[ItsjustMe]

4. If your Internet provider is Xfinity

You can find a streaming link here.

https://www.xfinity.com/stream/listings


Edit: The filmrise Channel has a few old shows.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVVXDVee0JZ2dlPYtpdTZVg

[MLAA]

5. And MASH!

[Tree-Hugger]

6. Oh that sucks

I'm not an old guy, but I love the older shows. Though, some of their "old" shows are from my childhood....A-Team. We constantly watch MeTV. I have Xfinity.

[IA8IT]

7. Still broadcasting in Omaha. Made me look.

[kimbutgar]

9. I loved METV especially Svengoli on Saturday's !

[Simeon Salus]

10. Off in Northern Illinois, too. It was working yesterday.

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I love Saturday morning westerns. I tape Time Tunnel on Saturday nights. I did.

MeTV has the great rotating mix and the viewing quality is high.

https://my.dish.com/promise

It says they're negotiating. Which means jacking MeTV

We just switched to Dish because DirectTV was in negotiations with the local ABC affiliate for several months.

Why can't a provider simply give what is desired and us not have to pay for all the stuff we absolutely won't watch? There's no technological barrier anymore. Dish asks us to customize for their advantage. Why can't we customize for our personal economy?

For those interested what I've seen in exploring:
82 FETV mostly old tv
217 is GRIT, old western tv and movies.
259 INSP lots of old western tv and movies
289 COMET is good for old sci-fi
293 HERIC runs each of the old star trek series for one hour every weeknight and lots of other old tv stuff.
373 GETTV old detective shows like Kojak and Rockford files

Big surprise is 387 FMC which has a bunch of old cowboy movies and every once in a while a truly great film.

TCM is something I watch constantly but it's on a premium package on Dish, $20 more.

[Different Drummer]

11. Bummer!

I had to check and see if it was still on in my area (near Athens, GA). So far, so good.

I like "The Carol Burnett Show' on MeTV, as well as a lot of their sci-fi and Westerns programming on Saturdays. Sometimes, I watch their Sunday block party programming, depending on what they're showing that day. Also, I sometimes watch "The Best of Ed Sullivan" on Sunday nights, depending on what's showing.

A Dish dispute that is currently affecting programming here is with Cox Media, which has taken the Atlanta ABC affiliate off Dish. There's no indication when the resolution to that situation is coming and, as usual, both sides are blaming each other.

[Zorro]

12. There's a Perry Mason channel on the free Pluto TV streaming app

Just add Pluto to your Roku/FireTV/AppleTV.

Pluto has quite a few oldies channels worth watching.

[MacKasey]

13. Have you gone to Metv.com yet

You can put zip code in and see if it's anywhere else nearby

[Tarheel_Dem]

14. Ugh! I hope that doesn't happen here in the Triad area of NC. MEtv helps keep me sane. You...

didn't mention Alfred Hitchcock & Peter Gunn, which are two of my faves as well as the ones you listed.

[area51]

15. I like Peter Gunn

Recently I've been watching the '60s series The Saint, which they show on MeTV+.

[Tarheel_Dem]

16. I didn't know about The Saint. Is it the Roger Moore version? n/t

[Nittersing]

18. Another Peter Gunn fan

Not sure how I originally discovered it, but what a treat!

I'd never heard of it and was glad to find it!

[ZonkerHarris]

17. They just started running Mannix from the begining this week. What a great show

Created by the same team that created Columbo.

[Raine]

19. I can get it OTA with an antenna on my extra TV 📺

you might try that if you have an extra TV not attached to your dish or cable.