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Largest market without a full-power Spanish station
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Without looking at any resources, I can think of these:
Birmingham, Nashville, Memphis, Louisville, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Columbus, OH, Greenville/Spartanburg, St. Louis...
Birmingham, Nashville, Memphis, Louisville, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Columbus, OH, Greenville/Spartanburg, St. Louis...
Detroit, market #11 (for now, but will most likely move down a spot or two, or more, when the 2014-2015 TV season rankings are released in the next few weeks). The only Spanish network available OTA is TBN's Enlace via a low-power digital station.
The next largest market is #15 Minneapolis-St. Paul. The only non-religious Spanish network available OTA is Univision via a low-power station still broadcasting in analog. This is the last remaining analog station in the Twin Cities, but is expected to convert to digital, and subsequently offer a much larger coverage area, fairly soon.
The next largest market is #15 Minneapolis-St. Paul. The only non-religious Spanish network available OTA is Univision via a low-power station still broadcasting in analog. This is the last remaining analog station in the Twin Cities, but is expected to convert to digital, and subsequently offer a much larger coverage area, fairly soon.
Detroit has a lower Spanish-speaking population than Laredo, TX (market 186!)
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Finding an English speaking American in Laredo is a challenge!
their digital is going to be 15kw (the max) so they'll cover the twin cities. I'm guess they're waiting for the whole spectrum auction or whatever the fcc wants to do
Or they could go cable only.
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But that would be cursed!
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Pittsburgh has no Spanish stations. They don't need one.
Univision (561), UniMas (563) and Telemundo (565) are on Comcast in Pittsburgh.
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But none of them are, as the thread title indicates, "a full-power Spanish station". a "full power" station is an OTA broadcast station. That's where the issue of "power" comes in. Anything on cable is as powerful as the cable system, so there's no difference between "full power", "half power", or "low power". You specifically said, "I'm not counting low-power stations, since they don't reach the whole market and may only be carried on a handful of cable systems." If you aren't counting "low-power stations", then surely you couldn't count no-power stations that do not reach any of the market.
If you're going to include cable systems in any given market that carry Spanish stations that aren't broadcast at all, then you'd also have to include DishNET and DirecTV. There's not a market in the country that isn't covered by those satellite dish providers. That makes the entire thread pointless. You could even say this thread is cursed!
the feed is up in the clear on big dish (c-band) which allows the cable companies in Minneapolis/St Paul to grab. Other than local commercials and the hour ID its the same as the national feed
I think Univision is in expanded basic in Detroit. I know it's been on expanded basic cable in Grand Rapids for years.
Hartford has had WUVN-TV channel 18 as a Univision affiliate since the late 1990s. They were once the ill-fated independent WHCT-TV. Too much history to get into now with that station! As for our market rank, I think we (Hartford/New Haven) are 30th.
Both the Springfield/Holyoke, MA and the Providence, RI/New Bedford, MA markets have low-powered Spanish stations of some sort. The Boston/Worcester market has WUTF-TV channel 66 in Marlborough, MA. They're presently a UniMas station and are full-powered.
You won't get a Spanish station in Burlington, VT/Plattsburgh, NY or Portland/Poland Spring, ME for that matter. P/PS doesn't even have an over-the-air ION station.
By the way, are subchannels of full-power stations being included in this topic?
Both the Springfield/Holyoke, MA and the Providence, RI/New Bedford, MA markets have low-powered Spanish stations of some sort. The Boston/Worcester market has WUTF-TV channel 66 in Marlborough, MA. They're presently a UniMas station and are full-powered.
You won't get a Spanish station in Burlington, VT/Plattsburgh, NY or Portland/Poland Spring, ME for that matter. P/PS doesn't even have an over-the-air ION station.
By the way, are subchannels of full-power stations being included in this topic?
Boston also has WUNI (Univision) and WNEU (Telemundo), the latter being a full-power satellite of an analog low-power station. And I think Telemundo is on subchannels of some full-power stations in Texas, and in Oklahoma City, KTUZ has Telemundo on DT1 and Univision on DT2, both 1080i! (Source: http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KTUZ)
No one has mentioned Charlotte, NC. And I'm amazed. There are many potential viewers.
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Cleveland, just 120 miles northwest, has Univision on WQHS/61. And they have a lower Hispanic population than Pittsburgh!
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So, which markets can't get DishNet or DirecTV? As I said earlier, if you can get either of those two satellite nets, you can get all the Spanish jibber-jabber you want.
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