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Antenna TV Adding 6 Sitcoms in January

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Classic TV diginet Antenna TV is revamping their broadcast schedule starting January 1, bringing half-a-dozen comedies to their lineup.

Joining the Antenna TV family: Designing Women (moving over from getTV), Diff’rent Strokes (coming from MeTV), The Facts of Life (also from MeTV), It’s A Living, NewsRadio and That Girl (last seen on MeTV). Leaving the schedule: Johnny Carson (the 90 minute 1972-80 episodes) and What’s Happening!!

Here’s the complete Antenna TV 1st Quarter 2020 lineup:
AntennaTV1Q2020

Good Night John Boy! The Waltons Are Back

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The classic (1972-1981) family drama series The Waltons is returning to broadcast TV, joining the MeTV daily lineup on January 1, 2020.

Classic TV diginet MeTV is also bringing back a number of shows that previously aired on the network: Adam-12 (moving from Cozi TV), Columbo (the 1970s episodes, returning from Cozi), Dragnet (also from Cozi), The Fugitive, The Honeymooners, I Love Lucy and Mission: Impossible.

Leaving the network are Charlie’s Angels, Columbo (80s-90s episodes), Diagnosis Murder, Diff’rent Strokes (moving to Cozi), The Facts of Life (also moving to Cozi), The Jeffersons and Thriller.

The complete MeTV 1st Quarter 2020 lineup is shown below:
MeTV 1Q 2020

MeTV Launches Holiday Programming Tomorrow

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Classic TV diginet MeTV kicks off their annual “A Very Merry MeTV” holiday lineup tomorrow, Sunday November 17.

MeTV will air a 3-hour block of holiday-themed shows every Sunday from 5-8PM Eastern. Tomorrow’s schedule includes Thanksgiving episodes of Diff’rent Strokes, The Love Boat, Happy Days and Mama’s Family. Other classic shows airing in the Sunday showcase include The Andy Griffith Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Bob Newhart Show, The Brady Bunch, Cheers, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Honeymooners, The Jeffersons, Laverne & Shirley, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, M*A*S*H, The Odd Couple, Taxi and WKRP in Cincinnati.

In addition to the 3-hours on Sundays, MeTV will be running other classic holiday episodes as part of their regular lineup, along with special Christmas Eve and Christmas Day airings of The Ed Sullivan Show. Click here for the complete holiday schedule.

Antenna TV Picks Up 5 Sitcoms for 2020

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Tribune-owned classic TV Diginet Antenna TV will be adding 5 sitcoms to their schedule next year:

  • Diff’rent Strokes (January. Currently on MeTV)
  • The Facts of Life (January. Currently on MeTV)
  • Designing Women (January. Currently on GetTV)
  • NewsRadio (January)
  • Who’s The Boss? (September)

Antenna TV currently airs in 146 cities around the U.S., including WPIX 11.2 New York, KTLA 5.2 Los Angeles, WGN 9.2 Chicago, WPHL 17.2 Philadelphia and KDAF 33.2 Dallas-Fort Worth.

We’re still waiting on their Fall 2019 schedule and will post it as soon as it becomes available.

MeTV Launches Full Fall Lineup Tomorrow

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Classic TV diginet is unveiling their complete fall schedule Monday, several weeks after adding T.J. Hooker and Hawaii Five-0 to their early fringe lineup.

Here’s a look at the new schedule:

Weekdays (all times Eastern)
5:00AM Highway Patrol (starts 9/5, replaces Our Miss Brooks)
5:30AM The Donna Reed Show
6:00AM The Facts of Life (replaces Mister Ed, which moves back to This TV)
6:30AM The Brady Bunch (replaces I Love Lucy)
7:00AM The Beverly Hillbillies (replaces Petticoat Junction)
7:30AM My Three Sons
8:00AM Leave It To Beaver (replaces My Three Sons)
8:30AM Leave It To Beaver
9:00AM Perry Mason
10:00AM Matlock
11:00AM Diagnosis Murder (replaces Remington Steele)
12:00N The Big Valley
1:00PM Gunsmoke
1:30PM Gunsmoke
2:00PM Bonanza
3:00PM The Rifleman
3:30PM The Rifleman
4:00PM Wagon Train (replaces The Beverly Hillbillies and Leave It to Beaver)
5:00PM T.J. Hooker (replaces The Brady Bunch and Gilligan’s Island)
6:00PM Hawaii Five-0 (replaces Happy Days and The Andy Griffith Show/The Odd Couple)
7:00PM M*A*S*H
7:30PM M*A*S*H
8:00PM The Andy Griffith Show (some markets air Gomer Pyle USMC)
8:30PM The Andy Griffith Show (some markets air Gomer Pyle USMC)
9:00PM Mama’s Family
9:30PM ALF
10:00PM Hogan’s Heroes
10:30PM Hogan’s Heroes
11:00PM Carol Burnett & Friends
11:30PM Perry Mason
12:30AM The Twilight Zone
1:00AM Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1:30AM Alfred Hitchcock Presents
2:00AM Mannix
3:00AM Cannon (replaces Ironside, which moves to Cozi TV)
4:00AM 77 Sunset Strip

Weekend changes include a shuffling of the Saturday primetime lineup, which has classic horror movie host Svengoolie moving from 10PM to 8PM Eastern.

New additions to the weekend lineup: ALF, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Facts of Life, The Fugitive, The Lucy Show, Mama’s Family, Peter Gunn, Petticoat Junction, Touched by an Angel and The Untouchables.

You can check out the complete MeTV Fall 2017 schedule here.