Free Over The Air TV Network Shutting Down
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- In this video, I reveal which free over the air TV network is shutting down in the new year. This network is available in a lot of large markets. What will replace it in 2024?
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We'll never miss what we never watch
It's more for options, rather than anything ever watched.
Only good show on twist was "tiny home nation"
I had no idea Twist even existed in my market. I will watch this channel for the rest of the week!
😂
Just learned YESTERDAY that TWIST is going defunct SOON. Stay tuned, to my replies I mean,, no pun intended just popped out while I was writing this 😭 😞
I'm not sure you can watch it for the rest of the week. It is a tough watch for sure.... :)
They didn’t even have to announce shutting down. They could probably just shut down and no one would even notice.
If a network shuts down but you never heard of it, did it ever actually exist?
Well it is in my channel list in Chicago, but I would always briefly scan over it and had nothing I really cared for to sit and watch for half hour to and hour. All I know is it says TWIST up in the upper right hand corner.
It is like several other channels that really are boring or duplicates.
I've been crossing my fingers for a cartoon/animation-focused subchannel ever since Qubo shut down in early 2021. The only regularly scheduled animation on OTA TV is aimed either towards elementary school children on PBS or 18+ adult audiences on Fox. There's an entire untapped market of 10-17 year olds with no option for animated content without cable or streaming.
Every 10-17 year old I know is addicted to UA-cam. I find it to be quite disturbing. Any for-profit OTA channel targeting that demo would be DOA
@@wysiwyg654 Not if they do anime the rolling weekly live releases would fit perfectly now sony basically owns all anime publishing outside of japan. But who am i kidding they would rather DRM it all and stream it on their shit 4 services.
That was a sad day when Qubo went off the air (Thanks, Scripps).
i would love a anime Diginet
an anime diginet would be amazing!!!!
I miss Qubo,it had some decent cartoons!
It would be nice if any channel shutting down would be replaced by an animation or cartoon based channel but knowing how the corporations that own the cable networks are, that would never happen.
They likely wouldn't be able to afford the content. Most retro animation is owned by WB or Disney.
@@writerpatrick SOunds like Prime real estate for Sony and their Anime acquisitions.. nah they would never do that without 5 layers of DRM.
I have wonder so long why nobody has. I mean I know they can’t sell Medicare and life alert, but surely there is something they could sell 😂
@@writerpatrick doesn't have to be retro-focused. sony is already involved in diginets to some capacity & also have a majority of anime licenses in the US
@@snintendogfat chance that happens OTA lol…although they did launch a FAST network so never say never I guess.
It went off-air here last week, and was replaced with yet another crime network that already exists on at least 6 other channels. There were a few semi-interesting shows, although like most of the sub-channels of this type, they were all older re-runs. (Charlotte, NC area, for reference)
Interesting that your local affiliate pulled the plug on Twist before the network did.
@@AntennaMan Twist is still on the air here in Knoxville, TN on 10.5. It's also interesting to me that in Charlotte they already shut it down, because Charlotte is not that far away from here yet it is still on the air here in Knoxville.
Similar situation here in Tucson. I don’t actually remember Twist being at 18-7 but that’s where it was. Just checked after watching this video and 18-7 is now CRIME (“True Crime Network”).
Same in Buffalo, NY. No more Twist, just another Crime sub channel.
Same here in Phoenix. It shut down last Friday, and just like the others, turned to Crime {how ironic),although that was already a sub on the same channel ! My sister told me the same thing happened in Minneapolis.
I've never even heard of this network so it's no big loss. None of my local stations carry this in the Flint, MI market.
Same here. Never heard of the station and none of the transmitters around me broadcast it. One station I do miss is qubo, though.
Detroit seems good to go without this as well
@usanatv2007sentertainmentinc. the network that took over the channel that it used to broadcast on is now bounce.
@usanatv2007sentertainmentinc. Isn't Scripps still on the air? I don't know why they would shut down Qubo but not Scripps themseves.
@usanatv2007sentertainmentinc. We never had either network here in the Augusta, GA market, so I don't miss either one of them. 😅
This is why I love you Tyler, for your no nonsense delivery of the information.
I missed how you failed to point out that there is no such thing as a digital tv antenna. So, I am not 100 percent sure if I went out and bought a true digital antenna if I might be able to keep Twist. 😂. My TV antenna is just some 70 mile Televes outdoor junk, with cat 11, Spanish agc amps, and outdated long elements, reflectors and directors. I probably should have gotten an indoor leaf which has the dtv sticker. I would have also saved myself $500 in equipment.
You should have also gotten the 900 mile antenna; you screwed yourself out of all the possible channels you could have gotten from that kind of range in an antenna! 😂
@@marcusdamberger 🤣🤣🤣🤣
No loss, since Twist was just a rubbish reality show network. I thought it was MyNetwork TV, which has better programming, I used to watch WWE Smack down and Crime Watch with Chris Hansen! I feel MNTV still has some fun daytime shows like game shows!
It's kinda sad to see Twist go (even if I haven't seen much of it) and personally, I'd take Twist over the any of the True Crime Networks (which, along with shopping channels, are the definition of "filler" for us OTA viewers)
I have heard about this channel. It is currently in the New York City metropolitan area, but I guess not for long. Never watched it. Happy 2024, Tyler! 🎉
And just like you, I also live in the New York City metro area. But have never watched this channel called Twist.
In the Philippines, I want to hope that Analog TV will be a Shutdown permanently by Sunday, the last day of 2023 at around 11:59 pm (Philippine Time)/11:59 am (US Eastern Time) but I don't like postponed in the switch from Analog TV to Digital TV in the Philippines, so see you on Sundays!!! Salamat sa inyong lahat!!!
I'd rather re-watch old Antenna Man videos on UA-cam than anything I've ever found on an OTA sub-channel. And that goes at least 10x for any new Antenna Man upload.
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0:30 These networks are fine. They'll be around for a while. Thanks to them, I've discovered classics like Hogan's Heroes or Sanford and Son. That's the difference between airing good quality shows and generic reality TV
Now I am old. HOGAN went off the air when I was 6.😮
Antenna TV is awesome, but the animation representation is lackluster. If you want cartoons, your only options are FOX's Sunday Night lineup with adult animated shows, MeTV Weekend Mornings where they have classic cartoons, and PBS Kids with preschool cartoons. Also there's The CW, but it only airs Family Guy and Bob's Burgers at like 2 AM.
It would be cool if a lot of the old cartoons WB and Cartoon Network were available over the air.
It’s definitely my biggest complaint too. We had Qubo but that was closed due to Scripps buying ION. So we only have PBS Kids, Animation Domination and random syndications of Family Guy, Simpsons and Bobs Burgers in some US markets. My local CW airs Family Guy and Bobs Burgers. I wish broadcasting companies invested more into bringing exclusively animation channels to the American OTA market
my local fox affiliate will do King Of The Hill at night and MyNetwork here runs The Simpsons and Family Guy in syndication pretty often
Tyler man, u don’t have to tell people to subscribe, if they like the content they will subscribe, most aggravating statements all the UA-camrs say
I'd like an Free OTA 24 hour sci fi B movie channel like Sci fi channel did back in the early to mid 2000s on saturdays when they played all of those strange movies like mansquito, raptor island, skeeter, boa vs python, bugs to name a few. I spent many saturdays curled up in bed watching movies on Sci fi/syfy and it was the best. Miss those days. Comet TV gets pretty close but some of the stuff they air is a bit too much sci fi.
MeTV has Svengoolie which has B scifi and horror movies.
I also heard that dabl is making changes in two days and moving on from lifestyle programming to sitcoms like sister, sister
Last year, Azteca TV shut down its American services as well. Circle TV will also shut down but 2 new networks will premiere The 360 and Outlaw.
Well if it's not making money, then no point in keeping it around.
Didn't get that 1. Don't think i'd ever miss it. Thanks for all the info you give us.😊
Sometimes less is more. Reality TV has gone past it's 15 minutes a long long time ago.
Never heard of this channel
It exists but I see they’re blending it in with True Crime Network (Crime) channel. It is channel 10.7, but I don’t really like reality TV so I didn’t watch it.
Twist sounds like a gay dating app
When the OTA subchannels first started in 2008, it's all I watched. Fast forward 15 years, I've seen everything on them at least twice and no longer watch any of them, with the exception of Buzzr the game show network. At least Buzzr keeps adding episodes they haven't shown before. It would be nice if METV, AntennaTV, etc would find series that haven't ever been shown on one of these subchannels, instead of just swapping and re-running the same series over and over and over and over
You've never felt you were missing something, like hard-hitting documentaries, science shows, theater plays, book readings?
Now if only somebody at 'This' would look at their product and see the field reversal. It looks like garbage & nobody notices.
Hadn't watched in a little while and when I tuned back in I saw Start tv 62-5 Detroit in my area has an excellent History/AHC type programming.
I wish there were more of these for the regular guy/gal rather then the gazillion crime shows game shows and sitcoms from the 70s.
Story is another network with history content.
@@jeffkardosjr.3825 Whatever it is I find it to be very entertaining and informative.
Sort of what the History Channel used to be like years ago and it's free!
And nothing of value was lost. KXTV had NINE channels for a while but had lost 3 of them including Twist, compression artifacts are laughably awful with 9 channels.
Get rid of all of the infomercial channels as well as the religious programming nobody watches.
My local affiliate WLTX replaced Twist with True Crime Network a while back. I thought this video was going to be about the Circle network going away Dec 31st. That was a much bigger channel than Twist was being broadcast on a ton of affiliates.
TEGNA's KPNX in Phoenix has already replaced Twist with an HD feed of True Crime Network on 12.5, which they were already airing True Crime Network and continue to air it in SD on 12.3
Good riddance I've never liked anything they've shown.
Circle is also shutting down over-the-air but will remain as a FREE streaming channel.
Thank gosh it’s Twist channel never hear of it that channel.
Ah yes Twist. We have (had) it here in the Waco, TX area. Fun to watch 10 year old Canadian building shows. Sad to see it go. I guess I'll just double down on Antanna Man. You';ll ned to go to a 24minute format at least twice a week. Looking forward to it!
Last month while watching FOX I saw a message running on the ticker at the bottom of the screen saying it will going to ATSC 3.0 and would need to rescan for the ATSC 1.0 version. Did that and it did remain on the same channel. Was getting worried.
The fewer “reality” shows on tv, the better
As long as they don't take away my Grit 🤠
No big loss. I hate reality tv! I just wish that they show more scifi stuff!
I remember having it in my channel lineup, but I never watched it. I’m not a fan of reality shows. I think maybe a lot of people are getting sick of them. I do like cooking shows, but the ones on PBS are better.
Looking at my lineup now, the Boston sub channel 66-5, that Twist was on, has disappeared. But 66-1, 2, 3 & 4 are all still there. I honestly don’t know how long it’s been gone, because, as I said, I never watched it.
As long as they don’t mess with my MeTV or Catchy Comedy, I’m happy. I am a little worried about Catchy Comedy, because there have been a lot of complaints about the rebranding from Decades. But the programming hasn’t changed that drastically, and I still enjoy it.
But no mourning here for Twist.
Interesting that the Boston affiliate removed the subchannel entirely before the network even shut down.
@@AntennaMan it's honestly not that interesting if it was not making them any money, and they knew the channel was going to be shut down anyways, then why renew their agreement to keep it on the air?
In Sacramento, Twist got removed from the services offered by KXTV for broadcast receivers. Twist had been taken off KXTV on 23rd December 2023.
I suspect that the shutdown is for a similar reason to Scripps' competitor TrueReal.
TrueReal had shuttered on 27 March 2023 nationwide, immediately following a block of Wahlburgers, due to being unable to obtain any new shows and running through every show in the channel's catalogue at least 3 or 4 times. It had replaced by Jewlery Television (due to winning the lease from Scripps).
@@Code7UnltdThat's funny that an even worse channel like Jewelry TV took it's place. It amazes me they have been on the air for as long as they have(same for QVC/HSN), I guess 70 - 90 year old ladies who can't get out the house are still enough of a cash cow to keep them afloat 😂
@@CommodoreFan64 Home shopping pays better than advertising, I guess.
Reality TV is of no interest to me or my wife. We don't have Twist here in the Everett/Seattle/Tacoma area anyway. I have turned to radio, but I set my wife up with a roof antenna and a 15 dB amplifier.
Add another channel to the list: Dabl. The schedule shows that this Friday it will stop its lifestyle orientated programming and change to drama comedies targeting African women like The Parkers, Sister Sister, Girlfriends and Moesha. Worse even is they have both Dabl and Paramount have kept quiet and have not even had the decency to warn viewers of the upcoming changes. If this is the trend now for subchannels then I think I'll start only viewing main networks since apparently you can't get attached to anything else. Wonder in how many years will Laff flip to an all western lineup?
I just watched and recorded the results of Twist's shutdown, and posted it on my UA-cam channel aside Circle's shutdown. I saw 2020's TV HISTORY occur, and i'm kind of proud about it. Therefore, Twist and Circle are dead.
Never heard of Twist. Anyway reality TV is not my thing. Right now MeTV is one of my favorite channels.
I'm extremely shocked we haven't had any pirate tv channels pop up
I keep analog channels 3 and 4 programmed in just in case anything shows up on them, they would be the easiest for an amateur to broadcast on.
Twist who? 🤣
I only watch my tv shows. I invested in my tv show dvd’s so I don’t rely solely on if my tv show is on over the air or not. I just put in the dvd and watch any show at any time commercial free.
I rather watch infomercials than have fake reality tv on tv. At least there are some interesting infomercials related to electronics that I might consider buying.
As of 12/27/2023, Twist is already True Crime in Little Rock Arkansas.
Prayers to all as they look for updates!
reality tv shutting down, good one more change I don't have to block on my play list.
I haven't watched a free over the air TV station in almost 5 years.
NO ONE CARES!
Way to many crime and shopping channels in the Buffalo market.
A lot of these OTA networks have bad programing. I wish I could be in charge of one lol.
Well, you may be right. Though I'm only going by the title at the moment. One of our local stations is listing their license link and it's EXPIRED. Not sure what I can do with that. How I can get the FCC's attention to shut them down then. Then I can send out letters to advertisers that they are being overcharged.
After watching, one less reality TV viewing location is no loss to me.
LONG LIVE Pluto TV! All HAIL to the king! HAIL, HAIL, HAIL!
Tyler: -which plays reality TV shows
Me: And nothing of value was lost.
I'm not even sure why this channel even existed at all as all it did was waste bandwidth on programming that BARELY cut the mustard at the network level (And the original stuff they had likely wouldn't make the cut at The CW (Let alone CBS))
So am I going to cry over this channel going away??
Naah
I don't think many people are into reality shows anymore.
I live in DC area, and couple of these reality channels have disappeared from my TV.
I'm seeing a few changes in my market (South Bend Indiana.) Our local My Network TV channel is now broadcasting Chicago's The U which WCIU's subchannel owned by Weigal. Circle is shutting down and being replaced with The365. Dabl is changing format from a lifestyle channel to African American content in a couple of days. In all 3 cases they are channels that are either rebranding or just replaced altogether. The one channel that's already changed is My Network TV to the U. I wonder how many other channels we'll see change format or altogether after the beginning of the new year.
It's kind of funny how H&I has been playing star trek every night for 6 hours for 7 plus years.
It wouldn't kill em to mix it up every now and then would it!
But l still land there by default on the regular. Sometimes it's just the least annoying background noise l can find...
Yeah, I would like them to reverse the line up so I could see enterprise first and not have to wait til midnight
@@FoulOwl2112Well I only recently got the network around here, so I'm fine with the lineup.
Haha, I liked your in-our-face "You didn't really think I was going to reveal the answer before saying..." line, LOL!
Never heard of it, by sounds of it dont want to
Won’t miss twist. Recently started watching Grit and really like it. I wish MeTV would mix up their weekend night schedule. Getting stale.
Twist is not in my market, so no change for me.
I've honestly never heard of Twist network, and I rescan my TV every few month to see if there are any new networks in my market(Augusta, GA market), but from what little you showed of it here, it does not look like I missed a dang thing. I guess people are just getting tired of crap reality BS(I was tired of it 30 years ago with The Real World, and Road Rules on MTV), and yet another network showing it is just not profitable.
Yet Defy and Quest are still on air. It's more that female-centric TV never has a lot of shows to pick from, if TrueReal's closure was any indicator.
Metv was already shut down here in my area. Boooo
ion has been out of reach in my area for some time, which means I don’t binge-watch Law & Order reruns.
Twist went off the air here last week. I used to watch Decked Out on that channel, but they replaced it with paranormal garbage for awhile, then a bunch of shouty reality tv show reruns.
I forgot about "decked out". I was into the show "tiny home nation"
I know with the Stadium sports network it was recently converted into "The Nest" which features true crime, home improvement, and reality TV shows. Guess it much cheaper showing reruns of reality TV shows like Flip this House and Ozzy and Jack's Wild Detour than showing live sports. I didn't even know Twist existed so this NO big deal for me.
@@Klingonmastr The most disappointing thing about all these digital channels is that they're almost all some kind of crime shows. There are so many reruns out there, I wish they'd give us some variety! You should have your sports, and I would love to have some home improvement and decorating shows. I end up watching Star Trek almost every night. lol
Gee, can other “reality” programming channels shut down, too? That would only be good news ….
So that's why Twist got replaced by GET. Happened here September 30th.
Damn that subsection channel gets switched over every few years cause before it was Twist it was Bounce TV.
Twist is pretty good for old HGTV type shows. It is a shame it is going off the air. However,Quest is taking over at least one of their shows,Decked Out.
I lost stadium channel dang there was lots of sports etc incl bare knuckle boxing now they are calling it nest
I lost stadium as soon as I really got interested in football. Sigh!
Thought Circle is also shutting down too.
Never heard of it, and don't care since I don't like reality programming.
Same with Dabl for me.
I never really watched it except for Decked Out. But I have seen all the episodes so not going to miss it.
Another station in my market has been announcing they are replacing Circle with The Outlaw Channel come January 1st. I hope the station that Twist was on replaces it with Comet TV.
Back a few years ago I wrote to all the stations suggesting Comet TV. Instead we got more crime channels.
Comet TV is a great channel that I have watched for years. If you are interested in watching it, they have their own free live streaming app or you can watch the channel live on their official website.
Are any of your locals owned/operated by Sinclair or Cunningham - which is basically Sinclair with a different name? IIRC; Comet is owned by Sinclair and it usually makes an appearance on their affiliated stations. I don't know if they license Comet out to third parties or not.
I can't get this network most of the time, anyway. And, when it does come in, there's usually nothing I want to see. Can't say Ill miss it. I'm just glad it's not MeTV or Cozi.
Never heard of it
Circle & Twist have not been on the air for 3 days & DABL is no longer home improvement reality lifestyle type shows. Weigel Broadcasting, though Paramount Global still owns the DABL network outright but changed its lineups which I'm not pleased with whatsoever because I enjoy the home improvement reality lifestyle type shows etc...
It's a shame. Also Circle Country has gone off the air for streaming pastures as a new network called "The 365" takes over, and that seems too similar to the new Dabl to me.
If you like home improvement shows, you may like LXHome, this the official name of what used to be LX News. It NBC's sub-network.
Oh, mostly reality, wont miss it!
No offense, but I couldn't care less. I hate reality TV.
BUT I'm glad that you shared the news with us, Tyler!
Never heard of it.
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Never heard of "twist" and since it is a reality network I am glad.
I don't recall ever hearing of that channel. Nice DRM dig. You and Lon should do this from time to time.
Skip to 1:10… you’ll thank me later.
Damn the bad luck. Thanks for the info, regardless.
There are several OTA stations that could shut down IMO. Not as many as the HUGE wasteland of channels on cable. We’ve also have OTA stations running just test patterns and some went bankrupt or sold out to the big companies where they now remain dark. The real issue is that we don’t have as much affordable, quality programming as we have available channels. Many have a low viewer interest. Just remember, when advertisers spend money on advertising, it’s added to the cost of their products. We probably don’t need them advertising on stations with low public interest.
Tup,!! Stopping advertising isn't helping anyone but CEOs. Personally I visit a store comparing prices to another I could be visiting that day, that $10 gas to get to the closest store means something to me. I don't buy overpriced items, my cars are all over 15 years old and the ones I couldn't buy because I was too young to work, are made better and still roadworthy
Good, it sucks anyway.
Reality trash tv. No loss.
Interesting that the list you show has it as a subchannel of KMEX Ch34 in Los Angeles, as that's a Univision Spanish-language station. If its an English language station subservient to a Spanish station I can see why its viewership might be a problem. I'll have to give it a look and wish it farewell.
Never watched anyway. 😂
46.2 has been TRUE CRIME network in Indianapolis for a while.
I didn’t know it existed.
PBS is not a major network?
No it is not. Carriage is not demanded by subscribers of streaming services which is why it's absent from most.
@@AntennaMan I had not realized that was the definition of a major network. I thought the definition was an over-the-air network that is available nationally, has a large national audience, and provides original programming. Silly me.
Tyler thanks for all your helpfull info its great. I have a 30 year old vu90xr antenna radioshack, still works great in my 11798 area code. needs some love and rotator stoped working lol. I bought 3 new antennas you recommend televes repack with low vhf , big channel master, and a big wineguard. I will put and test them with a new rotator. But with all this dmr crap, i went to my phone carrier, and got new wireless internet 5g uncapped unlimited solid connection. 40$ a month, i now have all my channels i watch plus thousands more and free , also free movies. They can shut all the ota stations off i dont care anymore lol. Thanks for all your hard work, we all still need free ota tv.
Why did your video end abruptly instead of with your usual closing?
It was a test to see if it increased the overall percentage of the video watched which helps the reach. It seems to be true so I will have to shorten my endings moving forward
@@AntennaMan: Ohh, interesting, I see. Thanks for filling in my curiosity.