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>Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:01:12 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Bob Peckham <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: TV5 & foreign-lang TV (TBob)


Our university is becoming a "head-end" cable distributer for the campus.
In with it all is foreign language TV.

We have a contract with TV5 and are receiving a signal (though I have not
been over to see...cause I am afraid of my boss).  I did tell the good man
that I was going to link in the schedules to our lab page, but I have a
big problem.

The TV5 USA website has a weekly programming grid page:

http://www.tv5.org/usa/fr.index.ante.sema.html

with cities on it, and the following command "Pour consulter la grille de
programme de votre fuseau horaire, cliquez sur le pays ou pays ville de
reference."  Well I thought that would be a no-brainer to click on a city
in our time zone...hey they are different!! I did not anticipate this, and
I have no idea how to calculate our reference city in the central time
zone. Anyone got TV5?  How do you get your schedule?  I don't know if I am
Chicago, Nouvelle Orleans, Madison, Dallas, Houston, Oklahoma....HELP!

Next problem. We cannot seem to negotiate with Telemundo (heck, they can't
even put together their web site [http://www.telemundo.com]).  Yes, I know
that Univision is better, but who has the do-re-me for that.  Anybody have
a suggestion for a Spanish station that is marketing their signal?

TBob

Bob Peckham
Director, The Globe-Gate Project
Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages
Univ. of Tennessee-Martin
Martin, TN  38238  USA
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html
CV: http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/tbobcv.html