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State College, PA (July 6, 1971)

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Bluenoser

from Centre Daily Times via Newspapers.com

2 WNEP-ABC Scranton
3 WPSX-PBS Clearfield
4 Special Programs (audio: WMAJ-FM Boalsburg/State College)
5 WNEW New York
6 WJAC-NBC Johnstown
7 Time/Weather
9 WOR New York
10 WFBG-CBS Altoona
11 WPIX New York
13 WHP-CBS Harrisburg/WDAU-CBS Scranton/WBRE-NBC Wilkes-Barre
 
I will guess there was no ABC station in Johnstown/Altoona at the time? I know that channels 8 (FOX) and 23 (ABC) didn't sign on until the 1980s. 🤔
 
A bit more explanation about ABC in the Johnstown/Altoona market...

Prior to 1982, Johnstown-Altoona and State College were separate markets, with both WWCP and then-WOPC sharing ABC. WOPC originally started on ch 38 (taking a network feed from WHTM Harrisburg), moving to 23 in 1981 in order to improve its signal, but the market merger doomed their chances (easy reception of other ABC stations didn't help: WHTM in Altoona, WNEP in State College, and WTAE in Johnstown) , and they ended up merging with WWCP and going indie (and later Fox) in 1986, after ch 8 switched from a Pittsburgh channel to a J-A station. Frequent net pre-emptions in Harrisburg and Pittsburgh. resulted in 23 rejoining ABC in August 1988, with WWCP staying with Fox.
 
Bluenoser said:
A bit more explanation about ABC in the Johnstown/Altoona market...

Prior to 1982, Johnstown-Altoona and State College were separate markets, with both WWCP and then-WOPC sharing ABC. WOPC originally started on ch 38 (taking a network feed from WHTM Harrisburg), moving to 23 in 1981 in order to improve its signal, but the market merger doomed their chances (easy reception of other ABC stations didn't help: WHTM in Altoona, WNEP in State College, and WTAE in Johnstown) , and they ended up merging with WWCP and going indie (and later Fox) in 1986, after ch 8 switched from a Pittsburgh channel to a J-A station. Frequent net pre-emptions in Harrisburg and Pittsburgh. resulted in 23 rejoining ABC in August 1988, with WWCP staying with Fox.
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WOPC was such a weak ABC affiliate that KDKA, which had part-time cable carriage in Altoona, had a higher viewership in Blair County (home to Altoona) through most of the 70s and 80s!
 
Surprised channel 8 was shoehorned into J/A in the first place, considering the distance from Lancaster and then Cleveland.

UHF 38 must've been hell, since the Scranton area already had it.

I will assume that WPSX-TV (PBS) channel 3 Clearfield has always been non-commercial?

🤔💰📺
 
WPSX has always been noncommercial.

WOPC moved from 38 to 23 before 38 came on in Scranton.

WWCP didn't exist on 8 until 1986, when the FCC allowed several slightly short-spaced VHF allocations to replace existing Us. Others were WVAH in Charleston WV (23 to 11) and WVLT in Knoxville (26 to 8).
 
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