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106-711: The first Color Classic was photographed with the Two-Color, two strip Cinecolor process. The rest of the 1934 and 1935 cartoons were filmed in Two-Color Technicolor , because the Disney studio had an exclusive agreement with Technicolor that prevented other studios from using the Three-Color process. That exclusive contract expired during September 1935, and the 1936 Color Classic cartoon Somewhere in Dreamland (1936) became

212-411: A panchromatic strip behind it. The orthochromatic film stock recorded only blue and green, and its orange-red dye (analogous to a Wratten 23-A filter) filters out everything but orange and red light to the panchromatic film stock. Since the distance to the two film emulsions differed in depth from a single emulsion, the camera's lens focus had to be adjusted and a special film gate added to accommodate

318-506: A sports talk station – in February 2014, before switching to an FM simulcast of sister station 720 WGN in December of that year). WRME-LD is licensed as a low-power television station, but operates as a radio station due to a technical anomaly with the analog VHF channel 6 frequency for television transmissions that allows the audio feed of such stations to be heard on 87.75 MHz on

424-425: A 1950s to 1980s programming block on Chicago's WFBT-CA in 2003, growing until becoming a national network in 2010. Since 2010, the network has spun off six sister networks: MeTV+ , the action/adventure-oriented Heroes & Icons , the comedy-oriented Catchy Comedy , the film-centered Movies! (joint venture with Fox Television Stations ), the drama-oriented Start TV (joint venture with CBS News and Stations ),

530-721: A SuperCinecolor credit was The Diamond Queen , released by Warner Bros. in November 1953. Thereafter, "Color by Color Corp. of America" was used for films like Shark River (1953) and Top Banana (1954). Color Corporation of America was bought out on April 8, 1954 by Houston Color Film Laboratories, which processed Anscocolor at its plant in Los Angeles, and Houston Fearless Corp., which made processing and developing equipment. It became strictly an Anscocolor processor. Color Corp. sold its film processing laboratory in mid-1955 to provide its television and motion picture equipment-making division

636-587: A Time , and Hogan's Heroes ; although the programs that aired as part of the lineup changed occasionally. On January 1, 2005, Weigel rechristened the Chicago low-power station as WWME-CA and removed the ethnic-oriented programming that filled its late afternoon and nighttime schedule, adopting the MeTV format and on-air branding full-time. Channel 23's former ethnic programming and WFBT-CA call letters were transferred to its sister station on UHF channel 48, which used

742-538: A bi-pack negative. In the laboratory, the negatives were developed and the orange-red dye removed. The prints were made on duplitized film and developed as black and white positives. One side containing the red-orange filtered recorded and the soundtrack was toned blue-green; the other side containing the blue-green record was toned red-orange. Cinecolor could produce vibrant reds, oranges, blues, browns and flesh tones, but its renderings of other colors such as bright greens (rendered dark green ) and purples (rendered

848-534: A black and white noir block late nights. On Saturday, there are blocks of cartoons (mornings), westerns (afternoons), The Three Stooges (early evenings), Svengoolie (prime time), and sci-fi programs late evenings through the overnight hours. Sundays feature the Saved by the Bell "Sunday School" E/I block early mornings, then sitcoms all through the day into the late night hours. Despite access to program content from

954-580: A block of classic cartoons and original skits, airing for one hour on weekday mornings – premiered on January 4, 2021, and a three-hour block of classic cartoons airs Saturday mornings under the branding of Saturday Morning Cartoons . Its companion network, MeTV Plus, airs the three-hour block of classic cartoons Sunday nights under the branding of Sunday Night Cartoons , and airs Toon In With Me weeknights. As of November 2017 , MeTV has current or pending affiliation agreements with 203 television stations in over 185 television markets encompassing all 50 states,

1060-584: A co-branded radio station, known as "MeTV FM", which maintains an oldies format focusing on classic music from the 1950s to the 1980s. The format change, announced on February 9, 2015, and formally commencing on February 23, coincided with Weigel's assumption of an LMA first formed in April 2012 between Venture Technologies and Merlin Media (the LMA was transferred from Cumulus Media to Tribune Broadcasting – which had operated it as

1166-434: A format featuring programming aimed at the market 's ethnic demographics. The block – which initially aired for three hours daily from 12:00 to 3:00 p.m., before expanding to seven hours a day (from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.) by 2004 – featured a broad mix of series from the 1950s to the 1980s, which included among others The Honeymooners , I Love Lucy , Perry Mason , The Carol Burnett Show , One Day at

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1272-547: A hosted movie series that had been airing on WCIU since 1994, and cartoon-centered Toon In With Me . Similar to the former local MeTV and MeToo formats, the network maintains a broad variety of classic television programs, carrying approximately 60 program titles on its weekly schedule; the network's slate of programming is regularly altered at the start of its fall, winter and summer programming seasons, which respectively begin on Labor Day , New Year's Day and Memorial Day . Since MeTV broadcasts programs that it acquired through

1378-413: A laboratory in which to test its equipment, and the corporation was dissolved. MeTV MeTV , an acronym for Memorable Entertainment Television , is an American broadcast television network owned by Weigel Broadcasting . Marketed as "The Definitive Destination for Classic TV", the network airs a variety of classic television programs from the 1930s through the 1990s. The concept began as

1484-537: A long-term affiliation contract. Afterwards, on September 7, 2012, another Wichita station ( KAKE ) became the Wichita MeTV affiliate, and is still around to this date. In early 2011, Bahakel Communications became the first non-Weigel station group to sign selected stations to carry MeTV on their digital subchannels, with its stations in Charlotte, North Carolina ( WCCB ) and Columbia, South Carolina ( WOLO-TV ) adding

1590-443: A major subchannel network (Weigel and CBS would later partner to create Decades, a similar classic television-focused network that launched on May 25, 2015 ). On August 31, 2022, 12 affiliates owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group and 4 affiliates owned by the E. W. Scripps Company dropped their affiliation with MeTV. MeToo was a companion programming format, which launched on March 1, 2008, on WMEU-CA in Chicago as an extension of

1696-461: A money-saving measure. Cinecolor 35mm film stock cost about 25% less than Technicolor (in 1946, 4.5 cents a foot for Cinecolor vs. 5.97 cents a foot for Technicolor). International Projectionist noted that "Cinecolor's service charges are also lower than Technicolor's, and the cost differential on a standard feature will exceed $ 50,000 by the time prints have been made, an important sum for a low-budget picture." When more producers opted for Cinecolor,

1802-599: A network-televised sports event is delayed or postponed due to inclement weather as well as during the Christmas season to provide supplementary holiday-themed programming. Two of MeTV's subchannel-only affiliates – WBBJ-TV in Jackson, Tennessee (which primarily affiliates its 7.3 subchannel with CBS ) and WIBW-TV in Topeka, Kansas (which primarily affiliates its 13.2 subchannel with MyNetworkTV ) – carry its programming on

1908-457: A popular vogue in the mid- to late 1940s with such features as MGM 's Gallant Bess (1946), Columbia 's costume adventure The Gallant Blade (1948), and Eagle-Lion 's Northwest Stampede (1948) and its Red Ryder westerns (1949). Most features made in Cinecolor were outdoor adventures and westerns, because the main color palette in those films consisted of blues, browns, and reds, and so

2014-480: A quality source of its signal), Weigel-owned ABC affiliate WBND-LD (channel 57) in South Bend began carrying MeTV on its 57.2 subchannel on December 15, 2010. On April 1, 2013, Nielsen began to tabulate national viewership for MeTV, including the network in its prime time and total day ratings reports. In February 2016, the network began to transmit its master feed in 16:9 widescreen standard definition (which

2120-405: A recently deceased actor or actress with a marathon showcasing episodes of their past television roles (either those that the performer had starred in as a regular or appeared as a guest star) to which MeTV has access to broadcast through its distributors, pre-empting episodes originally scheduled to air that day; however, these have aired in a significantly decreased usage since the discontinuance of

2226-544: A secondary basis while nominally serving as an affiliate of a major broadcast network due to the lack of enough available stations in their markets for a standalone main channel affiliation (though despite the 'secondary' status, these stations still carry the majority of MeTV's broadcast schedule). One other affiliate, WBBZ-TV in Springville, New York (which serves the Buffalo market), operates as an independent station carrying

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2332-570: A share in 1943) jumped to $ 8.50 in 1946. Lower-budgeted companies such as Monogram, Producers Releasing Corporation , and Screen Guild Productions were Cinecolor's chief contractors in the mid-1940s. A 1945 PRC Cinecolor release, The Enchanted Forest , was the studio's highest-grossing film, and PRC's series of Cinecolor westerns with Eddie Dean attracted attention among exhibitors. Screen Guild's Scared to Death (1947) featured Bela Lugosi . The commercial and critical success of those films led both major and minor studios to use Cinecolor as

2438-595: A sort of dark magenta ) were muted. The Cinecolor process was invented in 1932 by the English-born cinematographer William Thomas Crespinel (1890–1987), who joined the Kinemacolor Corporation in 1906 and went to New York in 1913 to work with Kinemacolor 's American unit. After that company folded in 1916, he worked for Prizma , another color film company, founded by William Van Doren Kelley. He later worked for Multicolor and patented several inventions in

2544-418: A subchannel for The CW to replace XETV-TDT 's affiliation. Like former sister network This TV , many of MeTV's affiliates (some of which replaced This TV with MeTV, after the former was partially acquired by Tribune Broadcasting) include regional descriptors reflecting the station's primary broadcast area underneath the logo bug displayed during the network's programming (these descriptors are also used in

2650-523: A two-hour block of the teen sitcom Saved by the Bell (which has long been used to meet E/I – or educational and informative – requirements, including by the original Chicago MeTV on WWME-CA prior to the national network's launch, and the TNBC block it formerly anchored) on Sunday mornings. In September 2013, MeTV began customizing its weekend morning lineup in order to allow its affiliates to choose between running both Saturday and Sunday E/I blocks, or running

2756-433: Is a Chicago-based voice-over artist, who has served as MeTV's staff announcer since its existence as a local programming format on WWME-CA and WMEU-CA, prior to its establishment as a national network; longtime voice-over artist Richard Malmos, who has been the continuity announcer for Weigel's flagship station WCIU since December 1994 (and is also known as the continuity announcer for many stations owned by, among other groups,

2862-406: Is also the preferred aspect ratio for sister networks Heroes & Icons and Decades), after conducting beta-testing in the format on WWME-CD months earlier. Although most affiliates continue to carry the MeTV feed in the 4:3 format due to technical considerations regarding transmission of their primary channel in high-definition and/or carriage of other subchannels, the switch to a widescreen feed

2968-616: Is available on the streaming service Frndly TV . As of August 9, 2022, MeTV is available on another streaming service Philo . MeTV's operations are located in Weigel Broadcasting's corporate headquarters on North Halsted Street in Chicago , Illinois . MeTV was originally developed as a programming block that launched on January 6, 2003, on Class A television station WFBT-CA (channel 23) in Chicago , Illinois , an independent station owned by Weigel that otherwise maintained

3074-469: Is perpetuated by 16 mm, regular-process Cinecolor prints in which those elements are an issue. Cinecolor Corp. operated at a net loss from 1950 to 1954, partly because the weak financial position of its division in England made it necessary for the parent company to refinance it and partly because of its own operating losses. The last American feature released in Cinecolor was Allied Artists ' Pride of

3180-616: The Cleveland, Ohio market, WOIO-DT2 , also carries MyNetworkTV, though as a non-prime contractual burn-off in the graveyard slot in lieu of sister station WUAB , which switched to The CW in 2018. On January 7, 2011, KCTU-LD in Wichita, Kansas became the first television station not owned by Weigel to carry the MeTV network. However, KCTU's affiliation with the network lasted only about one week, as that station's owner, Great Plains Television Network LLC, and Weigel could not come to terms on

3286-656: The Color Classics from Parker's archives to create the box set Somewhere in Dreamland: The Max Fleischer Color Classics . These "interim restored versions" contain digitally recreated Paramount titles; the U.M. & M.-modified prints had to have their title cards as well as their Animator Credits recreated. The Tears of an Onion was not included in the set, as it remains Copyrighted by Republic successor Melange Pictures. In 2021, after decades of being shown in altered, worn, and "beet-red" prints,

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3392-404: The Color Classics officially to DVD or Blu-Ray. During 2003, animation archivist Jerry Beck conceived a definitive DVD box set of all the Color Classics , excluding The Tears of an Onion , and tried to enlist Republic Pictures' help in releasing this set. After being refused, Kit Parker Films (in association with VCI Entertainment) offered to provide the best available 35mm and 16mm prints of

3498-473: The Color Classics to television, yet allowed the Copyrights on all of the shorts to lapse except The Tears of an Onion . Many public domain video distributors have released television prints of Color Classics shorts for Home Video. The UCLA Film and Television Archive has, through the assistance of Republic Pictures (successor company to U.M. & M. and NTA), retained original theatrical copies of all of

3604-685: The Comicolor cartoons by Ub Iwerks , for independent distributor Pat Powers . Notable Cinecolor cartoons were Betty Boop in Fleischer Studios' Poor Cinderella (1934); two Merrie Melodies cartoons, Honeymoon Hotel (1934) and Beauty and the Beast (1934); two of MGM's Happy Harmonies cartoons, The Discontented Canary (1934) and The Old Pioneer (1934); and the Iwerks fairytale cartoons that began in November 1933. Cartoon producers returned to Cinecolor in

3710-497: The FM band (with a visual station identification slide used on the station's television broadcasts to fulfill FCC licensing requirements). In May 2017, it was announced that Weigel had partnered with Envision Networks, now Sun Broadcast Group , to syndicate the MeTV FM brand and format as a radio network , with Weigel handling programming and Envision handling distribution. The company cited

3816-646: The Saginaw - Bay City - Midland radio market), affiliated with MeTV FM at its relaunch as WJMK , using the call sign vacated by one of MeTV FM's Chicago competitors, which had changed its call sign to WBMX . On May 3, 2021, it was announced that Weigel would launch MeTV Plus (MeTV+), a new 24/7 digital network that extends the brand and expands the audience of MeTV. The new channel launched on Saturday, May 15 on WCIU-TV 26.5 Chicago, Illinois and KMOH-TV 6.3 Kingman, Arizona, later spreading to other Weigel stations. In September 2021, MeTV Plus expanded their carriage beyond

3922-495: The Sinclair Broadcast Group ). Unlike other digital multicast networks such as former sister network This TV and competitors Antenna TV and Rewind TV, MeTV does not usually run day-long marathons of its programs on major national holidays. Instead, the network airs holiday-themed episodes of its shows on occasional holidays (such as Halloween , Thanksgiving and Christmas ) as part of its regular schedule, which air in

4028-550: The Universal Television library (including Hercules: The Legendary Journeys , Xena: Warrior Princess , Miami Vice , Quantum Leap , and The Incredible Hulk ), with syndication restrictions imposed on the original English-language versions resulting in some of the programs being made available to the station only in Spanish. Weigel expanded the format to its station on UHF channel 48 on March 1, 2008 – which adopted

4134-406: The fine print notation " On most MeTV stations " at the end of its program promotions regardless of whether a program or block is specifically promoted, typically during the timeslot card. Additionally, stations may also air select MeTV programs that are recorded in advance on their main channels in order to fill unprogrammed time slots or for use as a backup source of programming in the event that

4240-423: The "MeTV Christmas Conundrum" stunt block, along with airing Christmas episodes of its programs from late Christmas Eve through Christmas night (this was repeated in 2015, albeit in an earlier prime time slot, featuring Christmas-themed episodes of series feature on the network's schedule and other shows from its program distributors that were not part of the regular lineup). The network occasionally pays tribute to

4346-566: The "MeTV Sunday Showcase" block in September 2012. MeTV premiered its first original series since the introduction of Svengoolie , a reality show called Collector's Call , in 2019, later with more original series in 2021, Toon In with Me and in 2022, Sventoonie. The network's schedule is a mix of programming ranging from the 1930s to the 1990s. Weekdays feature Toon In with Me (mornings), crime/legal dramas (late mornings), westerns (afternoons), sitcoms (evenings through prime time), and

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4452-561: The 16:9 format; most other programming to which Me-TV has only obtained 4:3 prints are presented in an anamorphic 14:9 format. According to Nielsen, MeTV averaged 719,000 viewers in prime time for 2019, a 2% increase over 2018. MeTV's program schedule relies primarily on the extensive library of television programs that are currently owned by CBS Media Ventures and 20th Television (the latter now part of Disney-ABC Domestic Television ), along with select programs from other distributors. The only original programs on MeTV are Svengoolie ,

4558-459: The 1970s to the 1990s. Until September 2013, the network also aired Laurel and Hardy movies and shorts Sunday mornings. MeTV's weekly showing of Columbo on Sunday nights had been the only program that appeared regularly in any feature length form. For a brief period in the 2010s, MeTV aired reruns of several NBC Mystery Movie series (including Columbo ) as part of a daily late night block called "The MeTV Mystery Movie". Columbo departed

4664-465: The Bell to reach their weekly E/I requirements). The network moved its children's programming to Sunday mornings in October 2016 for more classic television programming on Saturday morning including The Little Rascals and three additional hours of westerns. Starting on October 2, MeTV’s educational/informational block on Sunday mornings was overhauled with the addition of Beakman’s World and Bill Nye

4770-760: The Blue Grass (1954). Donner Corporation, a private investment organization, acquired Cinecolor Corp. in June 1952. In 1953, it became the Color Corporation of America , specialized in SuperCinecolor printing, and was a major Anscocolor processor. It also made Eastmancolor prints and did commercial film processing and printing of non-theatrical films, and black-and-white film processing for television. To stimulate its theatrical film business, Color Corp. financed independent movie producers. The last theatrical feature with

4876-513: The Canada-based Cookie Jar Entertainment (now WildBrain). The national MeTV network launched in December 2010. As with This TV, MGM handled distribution of the network to prospective affiliate stations. As part of the standardization with the new network, Chicago's local version of MeTV was integrated with MeToo, combining a selection of comedy and drama programming that had respectively been featured on WWME and WMEU onto

4982-595: The Chicago outlets (some of which aired in different timeslots than on WWME and WMEU), as well as certain programs that were exclusive to the Milwaukee service. The following month on April 21, Weigel moved the MeTV programming to its dedicated full-powered channel – WJJA (channel 49) in Racine , a Jewelry Television -affiliated station that the group had recently purchased from Kinlow Broadcasting and had its call letters changed to WBME-TV on April 29. It later began transmitting

5088-508: The District of Columbia, and the border regions of Canada, covering approximately 92.54% of the United States; this makes MeTV the largest subchannel network by population reach percentage (a distinction once held by former sister network This TV), and the seventh largest commercial broadcast television network in the U.S.-based on total number of affiliates. Of these affiliates, 24 stations carry

5194-469: The Family , The Honeymooners , and Frasier ), while MeToo on WMEU began running only off-network drama series. On March 1, 2008, Weigel expanded the MeTV format to Milwaukee , Wisconsin , where it began airing on the third digital subchannel of the group's CBS affiliate in that market, WDJT-TV (channel 58). The Milwaukee version of the service featured much of the same programming as that aired on

5300-605: The Fleischer estate (in co-operation with Paramount Pictures) launched an initiative to formally restore the entire classic animation library from the surviving original negatives, beginning with Somewhere In Dreamland , which has had its restored World Premiere on the MeTV network in December of said year as part of the Toon In With Me Christmas special, presented uncut with its original front-and-end Paramount titles. Many of

5406-446: The Lost during the 2013 Christmas season; the shows became part of the regular Saturday morning lineup on December 28, 2013, as part of an hour-long block called "Sid & Marty Krofft and Me". As of Fall 2019, MeTV's E/I programming obligations are covered by the weekly three-hour Sunday morning Saved by the Bell "Sunday School" block (7-10 a.m. ET). In addition, Toon In With Me –

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5512-551: The Masters of the Universe and She-Ra: Princess of Power , along with Gumby and Mr. Magoo animated shorts; the block officially ended on October 6, 2012, rendering Vortexx (which replaced Toonzai in 2012) and Cookie Jar Toons/This Is for Kids as the only children's blocks on a broadcast network without a strictly-E/I lineup. MeTV began airing the cult classic Sid & Marty Krofft productions H.R. Pufnstuf and Land of

5618-731: The MeTV concept national and turn it into a full-fledged network with a standardized schedule, available to any station that wished to affiliate. As a result, MeTV would compete fully with the Retro Television Network and the then yet-to-launch Antenna TV , while complementing successful then-sister network This TV, which carried library product from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (with a limited number of classic television series featured alongside its movie-dominated schedule) and – until Tribune Broadcasting took over Weigel's operational interest in This TV on November 1, 2013 – children's programming from

5724-533: The Science Guy , the latter acquired from Disney-ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution . Saved by the Bell also continued to air on the station on Sunday mornings (as it still does). MeTV also previously ran a children's program block on Saturday mornings called "AniMeTV" (which despite how the name – due to the network's use of the "Me" moniker as a branding avenue for its blocks – makes it appear, aired no Japanese-originated anime programming), that

5830-606: The Universal Television, CBS Media Ventures and 20th Century Fox libraries, movies have a relatively limited presence on MeTV's weekly schedule. The network airs the Rich Koz -hosted horror and sci-fi film showcase Svengoolie , which is syndicated by sister CW-affiliate station WCIU-TV, on Saturday evenings. From September 2013 to January 2014, MeTV aired a prime-time film block on Friday evenings, "The MeTV Made for TV Movie", which showcased made-for-television films from

5936-506: The W48DD call letters prior to the format change. On August 4, 2007, WWME launched a weekend morning block that primarily featured Spanish dubs of select classic series, "Sí! MeTV" (the first two parts of the moniker were based on the phrase "see me", although "Sí" is the Spanish word for "yes"). Most of the programs carried as part of the "Sí! MeTV" lineup – which ran on the station until its discontinuation on January 25, 2009 – were sourced from

6042-559: The WMEU-CA call letters at that time – under the "MeToo" extension brand, with the two low-power stations also being broadcast locally on separate digital subchannels of Weigel's flagship station WCIU-TV (channel 26). The two stations eventually carved out their own identities, culminating in a format shift on September 14, 2009, when WWME began to exclusively carry off-network sitcoms (such as I Love Lucy , Leave It to Beaver , The Andy Griffith Show , The Bernie Mac Show , All in

6148-407: The application of chemical toner. In October 1947 Cinecolor bought a film production company, Film Classics , to promote its color process in its own feature films. Joseph Bernhard, president of Film Classics, became vice president of Cinecolor. Seven months later, Cinecolor president and founder William Crespinel stepped down, and Bernhard assumed the Cinecolor presidency on May 15, 1948. Entering

6254-601: The cartoons do not have recurring characters, but Poor Cinderella featured Betty Boop , while Christmas Comes But Once a Year featured Grampy and Tommy Cod. Towards the end, Hunky and Spunky were featured characters. All cartoons released during 1934 and 1935 were produced in Two-Color Technicolor , except for Poor Cinderella which was produced in Cinecolor . All shorts from 1936 and onward were produced in Three-Color Technicolor. Cinecolor Cinecolor

6360-572: The children's lineup on one weekend day and a three-hour block of classic series in place of the children's programs on the other, allowing stations to fulfill educational programming quotas by running the minimum three-hour requirement or an overall total of six hours of E/I content (this was reconfigured in January 2015 to allow stations the option of pre-empting the last two hours of the Saturday E/I block to carry only Green Screen Adventures and Saved by

6466-521: The company solvent, and Cinecolor went into voluntary bankruptcy in 1942. An upsurge in commercial and industrial films made in color improved the company's balance sheet, and in 1942 home-movie distributor Castle Films expanded the Cinecolor line to the 16mm and 8mm film formats, reprinting the Ub Iwerks ComiColor cartoons until 1951. Cinecolor emerged from bankruptcy in October 1944, with all creditors paid in full. Its stock price (only four cents

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6572-489: The company was able to reduce the cost of printing, which made Cinecolor an even more attractive option. Cinecolor's erstwhile principal investor, William Loss, was now the company's vice president and general manager, and he promoted Cinecolor to Hollywood producers. The first to adopt an all-Cinecolor policy was pioneer comedy producer Hal Roach , who made all of his postwar featurettes in Cinecolor beginning in 1947. Other studios followed Roach's lead, and Cinecolor enjoyed

6678-812: The cost of shooting in Cinecolor to only 10 percent more than black and white. Cinecolor's Alan Gundelfinger developed a three-color process called SuperCinecolor in 1948. but did not begin using it until 1951 with The Sword of Monte Cristo . Other films of note that used the SuperCinecolor process were Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952), Jack and the Beanstalk (1952), Invaders From Mars (1953), Gog (1954), and Top Banana (1954). The latter two were both also filmed in 3-D . SuperCinecolor used black-and-white separations produced from monopack color negatives made with Ansco/Agfa , DuPont , Kodachrome , or Eastmancolor film, for principal photography. After

6784-451: The customized station identifications shown at the top of each hour between programs or during commercial breaks, which differ from the silent lower third in-program IDs seen on This TV). Some stations either display customized logos using adapted versions of their current logo with the subchannel number below the main MeTV logo bug (such as WPXI in Pittsburgh ) or in order to fit in with

6890-632: The documentary feature Sweden, Land of the Vikings (1934) and the independently made western The Phantom of Santa Fe (1936, but filmed in Multicolor in 1931 and starring Multicolor executive Wallace MacDonald ). A short-term burst of feature-film activity in 1939 -- yielding the RKO Radio release Isle of Destiny and the Monogram Pictures release The Gentleman from Arizona -- was not enough to keep

6996-514: The entire schedule, some affiliates regularly pre-empt certain network programs in order to air morning and/or prime time newscasts produced by the station specifically for the subchannel or public affairs programs (such as with WLKY-TV in Louisville and WBAL-TV in Baltimore ); this has become particularly more common since September 2015, when other Hearst Television-owned stations in markets where

7102-727: The field of color cinematography. After leaving Multicolor, Crespinel co-founded the Colorfilm Corporation of California in 1932. By May 1932, the name of the company was changed to Cinecolor, Inc. (later Cinecolor Corporation ). William Loss, a director of the Citizens Traction Company in New York, was its principal investor. The company bought four acres of land in Burbank, California for its processing plant. Crespinel retired as president of Cinecolor in 1948. The company

7208-594: The final print. Printing SuperCinecolor was not difficult, as it was engineered to use the old process' equipment. Using duplitized stock, one side contained a silver emulsion toned red-magenta and, on the other side, cyan-blue. A yellow layer was added on the blue side by imbibition. The soundtrack was subsequently applied on the blue-yellow side in a blue soundtrack but separate from those records. The final prints had vivid dyes that did not fade and were of acceptable grain structure and sharp in focus. The common perception of Cinecolor prints being grainy and not easily focused

7314-467: The first Fleischer cartoon produced in Three-Color Technicolor. The first cartoon in the series, Poor Cinderella , featured Betty Boop (with red hair and turquoise eyes); future shorts usually did not have familiar or recurring characters. Many of the Color Classics entries make prominent use of Max Fleischer 's Stereoptical process, a device which allowed animation cels to be photographed against actual 3 dimensional background sets instead of

7420-788: The group does not maintain a duopoly (as is the case with WBAL and WLKY, which launched theirs earlier) gradually began launching prime time newscasts on their MeTV-affiliated subchannels. Some of the major network affiliates that carry MeTV full-time (such as WBAL, WLKY and WCVB-TV in Boston ) use the affiliated subchannel as a buffer during network sports coverage, breaking news or severe weather coverage situations to carry regularly scheduled network and/or syndicated programming seen on its main channel. Some affiliates may also preempt select MeTV programs to air infomercials (such as with WZME in Bridgeport, Connecticut pre-2021, which pre-empted much of

7526-401: The history/documentary network Story Television , and the classic cartoon-centric MeTV Toons (in partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery ). MeTV is carried on digital subchannels of affiliated television stations in most markets; however, some MeTV-affiliated stations carry the network as a primary affiliation on their main channel, and a small number of stations air select programs from

7632-559: The late 1940s: the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes ; many of Famous Studios ' late-1940s Popeye the Sailor cartoons; and Screen Gems ' Phantasies of 1947-1949. Cinecolor was also prominently employed in processing Paramount's Popular Science series of live-action shorts, although later prints were made by Consolidated Film Industries using its two-color Magnacolor process. The first feature-length pictures released in Cinecolor were

7738-476: The latter station's schedule under the MeToo brand as a locally programmed service. In the Chicago market, the national MeTV is carried on WCIU subchannel 26.3 and WWME-CA (the latter of which serves as its flagship station, and through its ownership by Weigel, an owned-and-operated station of the network); the new MeToo moved to WCIU subchannel 26.4 and remained on WMEU-CA. Low-powered WBME-CD in Milwaukee carries

7844-570: The launch of sister network Movies! on May 27 , 2013, which took the 49.3 channel slot that had been proposed to carry the Milwaukee MeToo service. After Movies! moved to a newly created second digital subchannel of ABC affiliate WISN-TV (channel 12) in August 2014, WMLW-DT3 became a charter affiliate of Heroes & Icons. Through a local marketing agreement with owner Venture Technologies Group, Weigel operates WRME-LD (channel 6) in Chicago as

7950-481: The local MeTV format on sister station WWME-CA. It initially maintained a wide selection of off-network sitcoms and drama series from a variety of distributors (similar to WWME's locally exclusive MeTV format, but differing from the limited distributor output of the present-day national MeTV network). Initially, WMEU maintained a similar programming schedule as WWME; however by the fall of 2008, their formats were modified to feature one station focusing mainly on sitcoms and

8056-417: The name Noveltoons . During 1955, Paramount sold all rights to the Color Classics cartoons to television distributor U.M. & M. TV Corporation . U.M. & M. altered the original beginning credits sequences for some of the shorts, to remove all references to the names "Paramount Pictures" and "Technicolor", and to add their own Copyright notices. Before the re-titling could be finished, U.M. & M.

8162-410: The national feed of MeTV in its entirety on digital channel 41.1; as a full-power station, prior to an August 2012 license swap that saw sister independent station WMLW move to full-power channel 49, while WBME moved to low-power channel 41 (the latter of which resulted in MeTV returning to its former secondary 58.2 slot to allow the latter to reach the entire market and to provide cable providers with

8268-435: The national network on December 15, 2010, WMEU concurrently reverted to a general entertainment format – combining some of its existing inventory of drama programming with a selection of comedy programs aired by WWME prior to MeTV's format-to-network conversion; however it continued to carry a mix of both classic and recent programs, resulting in the local MeToo channel airing a broader variety of programming than that provided by

8374-475: The national version of MeTV, which largely restricts its acquired programming to series that debuted prior to 1985. The MeToo format was relegated to WWME's analog signal and WCIU digital subchannel 26.4 on November 1, 2013, when WMEU was converted into a standalone extension of WCIU's "The U Too" subchannel, itself an extension of the general entertainment independent station format carried by that station's primary channel, albeit with some classic series remaining on

8480-421: The negative was edited, it was copied through color filters into three black-and-white negatives. An oddity of the system was that rather than using cyan, magenta, and yellow primary subtractive colors, SuperCinecolor printed its films with red, blue and yellow matrices to create a system that was compatible with the previous printers. The result of the combination of the color spectra was an oddly striking look to

8586-476: The network along with their regular general entertainment schedules, with a few carrying the network in high definition . The network is also available nationwide on DirecTV and DirecTV Stream , free-to-air C band satellite via SES-1 in the DVB-S2 format, and in some markets on AT&T U-verse and Verizon FiOS and cable television through cable TV providers nationwide. As of March 28, 2022, MeTV

8692-564: The network as a formal primary channel affiliation and two are general entertainment stations that air select MeTV programs on a tape-delayed basis. In almost all of its affiliation agreements, the network's channel slot is mandatorily required to be slotted on either a station's primary channel, or its secondary digital subchannel; in San Diego, this stipulation required the move of MeTV from CBS affiliate KFMB-TV 's second subchannel, to ABC affiliate KGTV 's second subchannel upon KFMB's launch of

8798-615: The network in early March of that year. On April 4, 2011, Weigel announced affiliation agreements for MeTV with 14 broadcasting companies, most notably Hearst Television , Hubbard Broadcasting , Graham Media Group , Nexstar Media Group , Gray Television , Cox Media Group , and Tegna Inc. Also of note, in December 2013, the network moved its Dallas - Fort Worth affiliation to a newly created subchannel of independent station KTXA (replacing Greenville -based KTXD-TV , which abruptly disaffiliated from MeTV three months earlier), marking CBS Television Stations' first affiliation deal involving

8904-598: The network on November 21, 2021. From 2022 to 2023, MeTV aired Perry Mason TV movies from the 1980s/90s on Sunday nights until the program left the schedule in early February. In order to comply with educational programming requirements mandated by the Federal Communications Commission 's Children's Television Act on behalf of the network's affiliates, MeTV carried an hour-long block of Green Screen Adventures (Weigel's Chicago-based program originally meant for local viewing) on Saturday mornings and

9010-700: The network's "retro" format, a logo formerly used by the station (such as WHIO-TV in Dayton ). Others display their callsign and city of license (and in some cases, the affiliate's virtual channel number) below the MeTV bug full-time in case the full-screen ID sequence malfunctions in some manner. From August 2014 to August 2015, station identifications for MeTV were based on the motif "Thank You for Making Us America's #1 All Classic TV Network", allowing local affiliates to customize their IDs to refer to their individual viewing area (for example, "Thank You, Chicago" on WWME-CD). Although MeTV prefers that its local affiliates carry

9116-622: The network's morning and late night schedule with paid programming), locally acquired syndicated programming (such as with WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C. , which aired events from the American Sports Network , a syndicated college sports distributor owned by WJLA parent Sinclair Broadcast Group, over its former MeTV subchannel on some weekends), local live sporting events (such as WTOV-TV in Wheeling, WV - Steubenville, OH which has pre-empted

9222-554: The network's programming part-time within its main channel's regular schedule, while running the full MeTV network feed on a separate subchannel. Over time however, MeTV's ratings strength and popularity have actually caused some of these split situations to end, with MeTV going full-time on two affiliates, Charlottesville, Virginia 's WAHU-CD 2 and Paducah, Kentucky 's WQWQ-LD at the start of 2019 and 2020, ending their runs as MeTV affiliates carrying MyNetworkTV and CW programming under secondary affiliation agreements. The MeTV channel in

9328-409: The other largely focusing on dramas. When WWME adopted a sitcom-intensive format for its MeTV schedule on September 14, 2009, the MeToo schedule on WMEU-CA was similarly streamlined to feature only off-network dramatic programs (such as Perry Mason , Star Trek , Star Trek: The Next Generation , The Rockford Files and The Twilight Zone ) and films. As WWME became a charter station of

9434-402: The process itself cost only 25% more than black-and-white photography (the price lowered as larger amounts of Cinecolor film stock were bought), and it could be used in modified black-and-white cameras. Before 1945, Cinecolor was used almost exclusively for short subjects. From 1932 to 1935, at least 22 cartoons were filmed in Cinecolor, including Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising for MGM ; and

9540-501: The production field proved to be a risky move, as Film Classics' original productions weren't successful enough to sustain the studio, which left the scene in 1951. Meanwhile, on the technical front, 1948 was important for the Cinecolor Corporation, which introduced a new supersensitive negative stock that cut back on the on-set lighting costs by 50 percent and 1,000-foot (300 m) camera film magazines. Combined, they reduced

9646-420: The program's normal time slot but are shown out-of-order from their regular episode rotation. Since its inception as a national network, MeTV has also aired marathons of The Doris Day Show on Christmas Eve as well as Christmas-themed specials during the month of December. In December 2014, the network aired Christmas episodes of its programs each weeknight from 10:00 to 11:00 p.m. Eastern Time, as part of

9752-469: The same channel. The station also aired public affairs programming including Racine & Me , and because of its full-power status at the time of the move of MeTV programming to channel 49, programming compliant with FCC educational programming requirements such as Green Screen Adventures (a children's program produced for Weigel's Chicago flagship station WCIU-TV ) and Saved by the Bell . On November 22, 2010, Weigel announced that it would take

9858-477: The schedule for Wheeling Nailers ECHL hockey game broadcasts and local high school sporting events), or in some cases, because the local syndication rights to a particular program are held by a station other than the MeTV affiliate (such as with The Andy Griffith Show , which since the network began airing the program in September 2014, is substituted in many markets with an alternate feed of its spin-off Mayberry R.F.D. ). To address these variances, MeTV includes

9964-417: The schedule. The MeToo format was discontinued outright on December 29, 2014, when it was replaced on WCIU-DT4 by Weigel's new male-targeted classic television network Heroes & Icons . Weigel Broadcasting had planned to expand the MeToo format to Milwaukee, intending to launch a similar locally programmed subchannel on WBME-TV in early 2011. However, these plans were delayed and ultimately scuttled due to

10070-402: The shorts, which have periodically been shown in revival movie houses and by Cable Television. Ironically, original distributor Paramount has, through their 1999 acquisition of Republic, regained ownership of the Color Classics , including the original elements. Olive Films (current licensee for Republic, and which currently has home video rights) has, to date, not announced any plans to release

10176-504: The station's signal from a new digital transmitter on the Weigel tower in Milwaukee's Lincoln Park on October 20 of that year, after WBME officially transferred its operations into the West Allis studios of WDJT and sister stations WMLW-CA and WYTU-LP . MeTV continued to be carried on digital channel 58.3 until October 30, 2008, when it was replaced by newly launched sister network This TV on

10282-425: The success of the original station (which, by then, was tied for audience share with its closest full-power competitors WJMK and WLS-FM , and by March 2018, was the 6th highest-rated station in the market), as well as the possibility of cross-promotional opportunities with MeTV television affiliates. In April 2018, Northern States Broadcasting, which just acquired purchased WHHQ AM in Bridgeport, Michigan (serving

10388-504: The syndication market, episodes of these shows are usually edited to fit into the allotted running time with commercials factored in. The network does not air a split-screen credit sequence or feature voice-overs promoting upcoming network programming during the closing credits (borrowing a format standard in local broadcast syndication). The network's continuity announcers are staff members Richard Malmos and Carol Gallagher, who both do equal share of announcing duties. Carol Gallagher

10494-468: The system's limitations were less apparent. Republic Pictures began using CFI 's Trucolor from the end of 1946 for a variety of films ranging from Westerns and travelogues to major productions (the life of Richard Wagner , Magic Fire ; and the battle of the Alamo , The Last Command ). Trucolor differed from Cinecolor, however, in that it used a dye-coupler already built into the film base, rather than

10600-602: The traditional paintings. Poor Cinderella , Somewhere in Dreamland , and Christmas Comes But Once a Year all make prominent use of the technique. Disney's competing apparatus, the multiplane camera , would not be completed until 1937, three years after the Stereoptical Process's first use. The Color Classics series ended in 1941 with Vitamin Hay , featuring characters Hunky and Spunky. A similar series would be started by Fleischer's successor Famous Studios during 1943, with

10706-513: The two stations. The streaming service Frndly TV added MeTV Plus to their lineup in October 2023. The streaming service Philo TV also added MeTV Plus to their lineup in October 2023. Affiliates MeTV+ arranges the bulk of its lineup in organized genre-based programming blocks , most of which use the "Me" moniker (in some cases, as an intentional pun) for brand unification purposes. On May 2, 2024, Weigel announced that it would be partnering with Warner Bros. Discovery to launch MeTV Toons,

10812-560: Was an early subtractive color -model two-color motion picture process that was based upon the Prizma system of the 1910s and 1920s and the Multicolor system of the late 1920s and the 1930s. It was developed by William T. Crispinel and Alan M. Gundelfinger, and its various formats were in use from 1932 to 1955. As a bipack color process, the photographer loaded a standard camera with two film stocks: an orthochromatic strip dyed orange-red and

10918-510: Was bought by National Telefilm Associates (NTA). Instead of re-filming the openings, NTA obscured the references to the Paramount and Technicolor names by placing black bars over the original title cards and Copyright notices. Only a few Color Classics had their title cards redone by U.M. & M., among them Greedy Humpty Dumpty , Play Safe , Christmas Comes But Once a Year , Bunny Mooning , Little Lambkins , and Vitamin Hay . NTA distributed

11024-552: Was done mainly to accommodate national and local advertisers that produce commercials exclusively in the 16:9 format and prefer not to have their advertising letterboxed into a 4:3 presentation, and stations which carry newscasts and other local programming on their MeTV subchannels that prefer to present them in widescreen. With the conversion, MeTV also began to carry remastered widescreen prints of some programs (such as Leave It to Beaver , I Love Lucy , The Honeymooners , and The Monkees ) and present its program promotions in

11130-487: Was handled by New York -based Classic Media (which, along with NBCUniversal , Nelvana and Scholastic Entertainment , previously co-owned the now-defunct digital multicast network Qubo in conjunction with Ion Media Networks , later acquired by The E. W. Scripps Company in 2021). The three-hour block premiered on April 7, 2012, to compete with The CW 's Toonzai and This TV 's Cookie Jar Toons/This Is for Kids . The block featured animated series such as He-Man and

11236-403: Was largely founded on the patents and equipment of William Van Doren Kelley and his Prizma Color system, and was in direct competition with Multicolor, which folded in 1932, and Cinecolor then bought its equipment. Although its color spectrum was limited by comparison, Cinecolor had several advantages over Technicolor: color rushes were available within 24 hours (Technicolor took four days or more);

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