Watch LAFF on...
- WPXI digital channel 11.3
- Comcast channel 206
- FIOS channel 467
- Armstrong channel 88
- Atlantic Broadband channel 116
Check your local listings.
LAFF, NATION’S FIRST COMEDY DRIVEN BROADCAST TELEVISION NETWORK, LAUNCHES IN PITTSBURGH
Pittsburgh, Pa. – June 5, 2015 – LAFF — the country's first-ever, over-the-air broadcast television network devoted to comedy around-the-clock — launched this week in Pittsburgh on WPXI-TV Digital Channel 11.3. LAFF can be seen on Armstrong Channel 88 and FIOS Channel 467. It will launch on Comcast Channel 206 beginning June 9, 2015 and Atlantic Broadband Channel 116 beginning July 1, 2015. LAFF will be coming soon to other local cable stations so check your local listings.
LAFF features some of the most popular sitcoms in contemporary television, including The Drew Carey Show, Night Court, Empty Nest, Grace Under Fire and Ellen DeGeneres' first sitcom Ellen.
LAFF will also showcase such great theatrical motion pictures and stars as: Jerry Maguire starring Tom Cruise; Tom Hanks in Splash, Sleepless in Seattle, Punchline and Nothing in Common, co-starring Jackie Gleason; Gleason's classic pairing with Richard Pryor in The Toy; Pryor and Gene Wilder teaming for Stir Crazy; Eddie Murphy as The Distinguished Gentleman; Robin Williams in The Fisher King, Moscow on the Hudson and Old Dogs with John Travolta; Ellen DeGeneres chasing Mr. Wrong; Jungle 2 Jungle, starring Tim Allen and Martin Short; Steel Magnolias starring Julia Roberts; Steve Martin in Roxanne and Mixed Nuts; John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as Neighbors; Kevin Smith's breakthrough comedy Clerks; Flirting With Disaster, starring Ben Stiller; Kristen Stewart, Kristen Wiig, and Bill Hader in Adventureland as well as This is Spinal Tap, About Last Night, St. Elmo's Fire, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and its sequel Honey, I Blew Up the Kid, Cool Runnings, Look Who's Talking Too and Look Who's Talking Now and many others.
About LAFF
LAFF joins GRIT, the first broadcast network targeting men, and ESCAPE, the first over-the-air network designed for women, in the Katz Broadcasting portfolio. Katz Broadcasting was established in 2014 by Bounce TV founder/COO and former Turner Broadcasting executive Jonathan Katz. Katz is President and CEO of the company while also still serving as COO of Bounce TV, the nation's first and only over-the-air television network for African Americans.
About Cox Media Group
Cox Media Group is an integrated broadcasting, publishing, direct marketing and digital media company that includes the national advertising rep firms of CoxReps. Additionally, CMG owns Cox Target Media, which operates Valpak, one of North America's leading direct marketing companies, and Savings.com, a leading online source for savings. The company's operations currently include 14 broadcast television stations and one local cable channel, 59 radio stations, seven daily newspapers and more than a dozen non-daily publications, and more than 100 digital services. CMG currently operates in more than 20 media markets and reaches approximately 52 million Americans weekly, including more than 31 million TV viewers, more than 3.5 million print and online newspaper readers, and more than 14 million radio listeners. For more information about Cox Media Group, please check us out online at www.coxmediagroup.com.