andysradio wrote:

It is sort of done here for certain channels. HBO2 is just time shifted HBO1. Missed something on Crave? Well it will be on again on one of the other 3 Crave chs. I believe there are two History's for this purpose. FX and FXX? Starz1 and 2?

It's a good point, but I would argue slightly different - those are cable channels which are scheduled differently than over-the-air traditional TV and always have been. In the old days, before home recording devices, if you missed a show on traditional TV, you missed it. You had one shot or you had to wait until summer to see the reruns. Miss that? Chances are you woudn't get another chance if it didn't wind up in syndication years later.

This is broadcast and to me, that's what makes it different.  

We’ve been kind of doing that with time shift packages haven’t we? Except instead of dedicated +1 channels, it’s just been out of market Canadian and American networks.

On my Eastlink service, I can travel back in time  and watch any show I may have forgot to DVR. The only caveat is not being able to fast forward through commercials. I have only gone back to the day before so far, so not sure how far back it will allow. 

There was an experimental channel here that did try that.  

City-90, later called City-2, was a Toronto cable service carried on cable channel 90 that rebroadcast CITY-TV content, especially news, weather, community information, and promotional material during the late 1970s and early 1980s.  A very early precursor to CP24.

At the time, Rogers & Metro (McLean Hunter?) cable were desperate for 'content' to put on their available channels; many of the cable channels were also available terrestrial and readily available at the time, so anything 'added' like Broadcast News, Air Canada departures, Stock Market and even a very early, rudimentary TV Listings channel were made available.

I was backstage when the Alice Cooper riot broke out in 1980, and I mentioned to his management that they could watch the rebroadcast of the reports on CityPulse on City-90 when they got back to the hotel since they'd missed the main broadcast.  They shuttled me up there and had me find it on the hotel TV for them.   Can't remember the hotel, but it was on Bay below Bloor.  I didn't start backstage; I was in the photography area in front of the stage when the chairs started flying and I got dragged back there for safety.

It was supposed to be 'cable channel 90' but it was on the bottom right row of a Jerrold RSC-2 converter at the time, putting it around button 28 or 29.

Ah the days of beige Coax and hope .

RadioActive wrote:

I have to confess I've never heard of anything even remotely similar to this in North America. But apparently there are a number of them overseas. 

It's an over-the-air time shift station, designed for those who may have missed a show they wanted to watch. It essentially recreates a network schedule 60 minutes after it already aired on the main channel. So as an example, if you got home late and forgot to DVR "FBI," or there were several shows you also wanted to see airing at 8 PM and you couldn't record all of them, you could then rewatch it at 9 o'clock.

The Ten Network in Australia just launched such a conveniece for viewers and the article about it indicates there are already plenty of others just like it in other countries.

"10+1 joins a well-established global tradition of timeshift broadcasting. Viewers in the United Kingdom have long had access to ITV1+1, Channel 4+1 and Channel 5+1, while in Ireland RTÉ operates parallel +1 services across its main channels. Across the Tasman, New Zealand’s TVNZ has offered timeshift viewing since 2012, with TVNZ 1+1 and TVNZ 2+1 both available."

What do you think of this concept? With DVRs and streaming, it doesn't seem worth the money or the effort. But I have to admit, it would be a nice feature to have here on the rare occasion when you get home too late to see your favourite show and you forgot to record it. 

Network 10 to Launch Free-to-Air Timeshift Channel