Desert bus 2 A chan spot

[Tank_girl]

Hey guys it's been quite some time now but I was wondering if any one had found a link to this years A channel spot for desert bus 2.

[spartanhelmet]

I thought they didn't do one this year... well, that's afaik

[Unlucky]

A channel? Someone care to enlighten me? (Or shower me with a round of "JUST ****ING GOOGLE IT!"?)

[spartanhelmet]

A channel?

It's not "a channel".. it's the 'A' channel. North America is funny like that... using letter instead of just good ole numbers

More info here and here. Hudson Mack weekdays, Cheryl Bloxham late-night Bruce Williams for Island Weekend news with Erick Thompson and Astrid Braunschmidt reporting.

[Unlucky]

A channel?

It's not "a channel".. it's the 'A' channel. North America is funny like that... using letter instead of just good ole numbers

More info [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_(TV_system)"]here[/url] and here. Hudson Mack weekdays, Cheryl Bloxham late-night and Bruce Williams for Island Weekend news.

What confuses me is how you know this. Still, thank you very much for the clarification.

So, yes -

Hey guys it's been quite some time now but I was wondering if any one had found a link to this years A channel spot for desert bus 2.

[spartanhelmet]

What confuses me is how you know this.

Well, that's easy, it's because I stalk the weather girl... or maybe thanks to wikipedia and their site

It's not on Youtube... thanks to my speedread of 10 search pages within the right timeframe, I can say it's not there. It might be somewhere else, but I swear someone kicked up a fuss about A channel (paraphrased) "sucking at journalism since they haven't done a story".

[Elomin Sha]

No I haven't seen it around but I'll do a search, it wasn't high on my list since I was there when the cameraman turned up.

[Cake]

'A' channel. North America is funny like that... using letter instead of just good ole numbers

I wasn't aware. We use numbers.

[spartanhelmet]

I wasn't aware. We use numbers.

Your TVs do, but your channels all have those funny names... like KUSA or KCNC in your local area, for instance.

For me, I just have 2,3,7,9,10. A couple of the smaller ones have a national acronym (like we have an ABC, something called SBS) but I've never hear something like "KAUS 4" over here. That's all I meant

[Cake]

Oh ok. I see what you mean.

[tamaness]

those KAOS and KORT and WERT names are all station call letters. see wikipedia for more info. Any station that broadcasts over air (not cable or satellite; just plain radio waves direct to your antenna) needs to have a call sign associated with it, hence "KOAT 5." I'm sure stations worldwide do use similar call signs. They might just not bother broadcasting the message, "this is our call sign and channel, you simpletons!"

[Matt]

A channel?

It's not "a channel".. it's the 'A' channel. North America is funny like that... using letter instead of just good ole numbers

it's not even that - our channels are all named "Fox" "Global" "CBC" etc. That particular station is named "A Channel" it's not the "A" Channel.

It used to be the "NEW VI" [where the VI was the abbreviated location: in our case V.I., but in others T.O. or what have you] they changed it to A channe to standardize nationally.

-m

[Morgan]

why they standardized it to the alberta channel is quite beyond me...

[Tank_girl]

why they standardized it to the alberta channel is quite beyond me...

The alberta chan hasnt been A Channel for years now. It is now CityTV.

[Purplelettuce]

I liked it better when it was Check TV.
Then it was Ch

As though the word Check was too long.