In Boston, it's over the air, and in Quincy, it's on Mediacom-- I've never even heard of Mediacom.
All previous Trek series on one network!
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A current H&I commercial says that Trek is starting at 8 p.m. EST on the 24th...and I hadn't looked it up before, but that's a Sunday. I wonder if they're going to be doing a Sunday night Trek block? Currently they do a Western block Sunday afternoon and evening until 9 p.m., at which point they switch to the same cop/detective programming that they show every other night of the week.
While it will be nice for all 5 series to air on one network, and that H&I is a "sister" to MeTV, in 17 days SuperSciFi Saturday Night is going to receive a lineup change.
Gut feeling.
Gut feeling.
H&I now has schedules up for the 24th and the 25th:
http://www.heroesandiconstv.com/schedule/2016-7-24
http://www.heroesandiconstv.com/schedule/2016-7-25
Looks like they'll be playing a solid block consisting of one episode of each Trek show from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Sundays--in order by series (TOS, TNG, DS9, VGR, ENT)...and Trek will also be on their weekday schedule--TOS and TNG from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., and DS9, VGR, and ENT from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. (interrupted by Hercules, Xena, and NYPD Blue--one of these things is not like the others).
Nice to see them running something other than wall-to-wall cop shows on weeknights.
http://www.heroesandiconstv.com/schedule/2016-7-24
http://www.heroesandiconstv.com/schedule/2016-7-25
Looks like they'll be playing a solid block consisting of one episode of each Trek show from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Sundays--in order by series (TOS, TNG, DS9, VGR, ENT)...and Trek will also be on their weekday schedule--TOS and TNG from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., and DS9, VGR, and ENT from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. (interrupted by Hercules, Xena, and NYPD Blue--one of these things is not like the others).
Nice to see them running something other than wall-to-wall cop shows on weeknights.
Meh. I just found out that Netflix Canada has Voyager now, so I'm happy with that.
(Ooh, just noticed that they seem to be picking up The Man from UNCLE, too....)
I just found out about this after randomly doing a search for Star Trek on TVGUIDE.COM because Star Trek Beyond was coming out! 
AWESOME! I already have TOS, TNG, and DS9 (3-7) on DVD, but not VOY or ENT.
It's been more than a decade since I watched reruns of VOY and ENT, I can't wait to rewatch them along with the occasional TOS, TNG, or early DS9 with commercials!
MODS should really pin/sticky this topic at the very top of this board! This is the most important Trek news to come out in years!
AWESOME! I already have TOS, TNG, and DS9 (3-7) on DVD, but not VOY or ENT.
It's been more than a decade since I watched reruns of VOY and ENT, I can't wait to rewatch them along with the occasional TOS, TNG, or early DS9 with commercials!
MODS should really pin/sticky this topic at the very top of this board! This is the most important Trek news to come out in years!
Those are the EST times, PST will be three hours earlier.
If a few more people had been as enthusiastic as you, I might be tempted.
Another bit of news regarding this came to light when somebody posted this link to an H&I press release in a now-closed thread. Apparently they'll be airing TOS, at least, without syndication cuts.
A heads-up/reminder to anyone who's interested that this starts tonight at 8 EST.
I am watching now.
Finished with The Man Trap.
This episode always felt like an Outer Limits episode with the salt monster.
Halfway through Encounter At Farpoint part 1.
Damn, Patrick Stewart was great from the very first episode, the pilot is still as shaky as I remember it.
Finished with The Man Trap.
This episode always felt like an Outer Limits episode with the salt monster.
Halfway through Encounter At Farpoint part 1.
Damn, Patrick Stewart was great from the very first episode, the pilot is still as shaky as I remember it.
I've got in on in the background. Randomly looked up just in time to see the damn manskirt...! 
I've got in on in the background. Randomly looked up just in time to see the damn manskirt...!
Haha, first season weirdness.
That skirt thing didn't last long.
More like first season GOOD LORD, MY EYES!!!!!!
Was the picture quality bad for anyone else. It felt like things were jumping a lot. It was great to see DS9 and VOY on the guide for the first time in a long time though.
The video quality was very average, obviously worse than dvd, but I can't complain since the episodes were free. Yeah, it was great seeing DS9, VOY, and ENT again after such a long time!
Yeah. Maybe for a network such as this its best not to expect much but despite having the DVDs I watched the end of Emissary.
The picture quality is a function of digital television. H&I is almost exclusively an over-the-air network designed to run on a main channel's digital subchannel. A main channel is usually something like "XX.1" H&I or MeTV or Antenna usually are designated "XX.2" or "XX.3" or something like that.
A main digital channel, the ".1", is the one that's in high definition and sucks up most of the bandwidth allotted to that station. All of the subchannels use a small portion of the same bandwidth, so the picture and sound are all compressed so as to allow the broadcast.
It's up to the local station to decide how much bandwidth to allocate to any of their subchannels, so it can vary from market to market as to just how good or how poor the network can look. It can also vary from show to show. Main channels will siphon off subchannel bandwidth if they're running a high-profile sporting event, and I have noticed that our MeTV affiliate in Tampa seems to up the bandwidth when it airs STAR TREK or TWILIGHT ZONE. They always look better than other shows on that network.
Some cable systems also pick up and re-transmit these subchannels. It varies from town to town and system to system as to whether of not the subchannels are picked up. But know that the cable systems themselves are picking up the H&I or MeTV signals off the air and then re-transmitting them, so they'll look just as bad on cable as they do over the air, maybe worse, since cable systems add their own compression on top of whatever they're given.
I watched a small portion of the H&I broadcasts last night. "The Man Trap" looked pretty good for a sub-channel. "Encounter At Farpoint" looked a little over-saturated to me, but it was clear that they were running the remasters. When "Emissary" came on, it was quite obvious that it was a step down from TNG. The red uniforms went back to being washed out.
I only saw a tiny bit of "Caretaker" with B'Elanna and Harry waking up in the alien lab. It looked OK, but that was a bright scene with mostly white. ENTERPRISE was way past my bedtime so I didn't see any of it. Were they able to show it in 16:9 widescreen?
Harry
A main digital channel, the ".1", is the one that's in high definition and sucks up most of the bandwidth allotted to that station. All of the subchannels use a small portion of the same bandwidth, so the picture and sound are all compressed so as to allow the broadcast.
It's up to the local station to decide how much bandwidth to allocate to any of their subchannels, so it can vary from market to market as to just how good or how poor the network can look. It can also vary from show to show. Main channels will siphon off subchannel bandwidth if they're running a high-profile sporting event, and I have noticed that our MeTV affiliate in Tampa seems to up the bandwidth when it airs STAR TREK or TWILIGHT ZONE. They always look better than other shows on that network.
Some cable systems also pick up and re-transmit these subchannels. It varies from town to town and system to system as to whether of not the subchannels are picked up. But know that the cable systems themselves are picking up the H&I or MeTV signals off the air and then re-transmitting them, so they'll look just as bad on cable as they do over the air, maybe worse, since cable systems add their own compression on top of whatever they're given.
I watched a small portion of the H&I broadcasts last night. "The Man Trap" looked pretty good for a sub-channel. "Encounter At Farpoint" looked a little over-saturated to me, but it was clear that they were running the remasters. When "Emissary" came on, it was quite obvious that it was a step down from TNG. The red uniforms went back to being washed out.
I only saw a tiny bit of "Caretaker" with B'Elanna and Harry waking up in the alien lab. It looked OK, but that was a bright scene with mostly white. ENTERPRISE was way past my bedtime so I didn't see any of it. Were they able to show it in 16:9 widescreen?
Harry
