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West Lebanon, NH (December 8, 1996)

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Bluenoser

from Valley News via Newspapers.com

TWIN STATE
2 Foxnet
3 WCAX-CBS Burlington
4 WBZ-CBS Boston
5 Local Info
6 Public Access
7 WVTA-PBS Windsor
8 WMTW-ABC Poland Spring
9 WMUR-ABC Manchester
10 WSBK-UPN Boston
11 WENH-PBS Durham
12 WNNE-NBC Hanover
13 QVC
14 Encore
15 C-SPAN
17 USA Network
18 ESPN
20 Nickelodeon
21 Lifetime
22 Weather Channel
23 SportsChannel New England
24 Discovery Channel
25 Family Channel
26 CNN
27 TNT
28 AMC
29 MTV
30 TNN
31 VH1
32 Court TV
33 EWTN
34 NECN
36 CNBC
37 A&E
41 HBO
42 Cinemax
43 Showtime
44 Disney Channel
45 NESN
46-49 PPV

WARNER
2 WVTA-PBS Windsor
3 WCAX-CBS Burlington
4 WBZ-CBS Boston
5 QVC
7 WHDH-NBC Boston
8 WMTW-ABC Poland Spring
9 WMUR-ABC Manchester
10 WLVI-WB Boston
11 WEKW-PBS Keene
12 Foxnet
13 WNNE-NBC Hanover
14 Local Info
15 C-SPAN
16 WSBK-UPN Boston
17 Nickelodeon
18 USA Network
19 ESPN
20 MTV
21 Family Channel
22 Weather Channel
23 A&E
24 VH1
25 TNT
26 Discovery Channel
27 TNN
28 Lifetime
29 CNN
30 CNN Headline News
31 E!
32 AMC
33 EWTN
37 Warner Home Theatre
39 PPV
40 HBO
42 The Movie Channel
43 Showtime
45 Cinemax
48 NESN

TWIN VALLEY
2 WVTA-PBS Windsor
3 WCAX-CBS Burlington
4 WBZ-CBS Boston
5 WCVB-ABC Boston
6 WNNE-NBC Hanover
7 WHDH-NBC Boston
9 WMUR-ABC Manchester
10 WSBK-UPN Boston
11 WENH-PBS Durham
12 WLVI-WB Boston
13 Local Info
14 Encore
15 WTBS Atlanta
16 WWOR New York
17 HBO
18 PPV
20 Disney Channel
22 Cinemax
23 NESN
25 ESPN
26 USA Network
27 TNT
28 Court TV
29 Family Channel
30 QVC
31 CMT
32 Discovery Channel
34 MTV
35 Weather Channel
36 TNN
37 CNN
38 AMC
40 EWTN
41 NECN
42 TLC

FIRST CAROLINA
2 WVTA-PBS Windsor
3 WCAX-CBS Burlington
4 WBZ-CBS Boston
5 WCVB-ABC Boston
6 WTBS Atlanta
7 WHDH-NBC Boston
8 Foxnet
9 WMUR-ABC Manchester
10 WNNE-NBC Hanover
11 WENH-PBS Durham
12 WSBK-UPN Boston
13 Local Info/Public Access
14 HBO
15 NESN
16 Cinemax
17 Travel Channel
18 Disney Channel
19 Weather Channel
20 SportsChannel New England
21 CNN
22 ESPN
23 USA Network
24 Nickelodeon
25 Family Channel
26 TNN
27 Discovery Channel
28 CNBC
29 C-SPAN
30 Lifetime
31 A&E
32 Nostalgia
33 TNT
34 MTV
35 CMT
36 HSN
37 CNN Headline News
38 VH1
39 TLC
40 QVC
42 E!
43 Sci-Fi Channel

GRASS ROOTS
3 WCAX-CBS Burlington
7 Local Info
8 WVNY-ABC Burlington
9 Foxnet
10 WSBK-UPN Boston
11 WVTA-PBS Windsor
12 WTBS Atlanta
13 WNNE-NBC Hanover
15 Disney Channel
16 Cinemax
17 Showtime
18 NESN
20 SportsChannel New England
21 ESPN
22 QVC
23 VH1
24 MTV
25 A&E
27 Weather Channel
28 CNN
29 CNN Headline News
30 Family Channel
31 Discovery Channel
32 TNN
33 Nickelodeon
34 USA Network
35 Family Channel
36 TNT

KEARSARGE CABLE
2 WGOT Merrimack
3 WVTA-PBS Windsor
4 WBZ-CBS Boston
5 WCVB-ABC Boston
6 WLVI-WB Boston
7 WHDH-NBC Boston
8 WSBK-UPN Boston
9 WMUR-ABC Manchester
10 Local Info
11 WENH-PBS Durham
12 Foxnet
13 WNNE-NBC Hanover
14 TNT
15 Discovery Channel
16 ESPN
17 AMC
18 Nickelodeon
19 WNDS Derry
20 USA Network
21 CNN
22 Lifetime
23 Cinemax
24 HBO
25 TNN
26 WTBS Atlanta
27 SportsChannel New England
28 A&E
29 WWOR New York
30 Weather Channel
32 Disney Channel
33 VH1
34 C-SPAN
35 CNBC
36 WABU Boston
 
I'm surprised they all passed up WFXT for Foxnet despite at least one Boston station (and in some cases multiple Boston stations) being carried on every system.
 
WFXT wasn't listed, but I wouldn't rule out it being carried...Fox was only listed in the converter guide as "FOX", Interestingly enough, WHDH was listed by the old WNEV calls, but there was also a WHDH listing as well in the grid.
 
WNNE-TV channel 31 is presently licensed to Montpelier, VT. It's now a CW affiliate with it's transmitter on Mount Mansfield in Stowe. I believe it's also a subchannel of sister station WPTZ-TV (NBC) channel 5 Plattsburgh, NY. (I want to say channel sharing due to the spectrum auction.)

West Lebanon, NH is over the Connecticut River from the village of White River Junction, VT. WRJ is actually part of the town of Hartford, VT.

I see one of these systems carried channel 8 of Maine at one point. It helped that their transmitter was atop Mount Washington.
 
KML0224 said:
WNNE-TV channel 31 is presently licensed to Montpelier, VT. It's now a CW affiliate with it's transmitter on Mount Mansfield in Stowe. I believe it's also a subchannel of sister station WPTZ-TV (NBC) channel 5 Plattsburgh, NY. (I want to say channel sharing due to the spectrum auction.)

West Lebanon, NH is over the Connecticut River from the village of White River Junction, VT. WRJ is actually part of the town of Hartford, VT.

I see one of these systems carried channel 8 of Maine at one point. It helped that their transmitter was atop Mount Washington.
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At one time WMTW blanketed pretty much all of northern New England (Aroostook County would have been too far) and even got into Montreal. Their signal was huge.
 
IM42A said:
At one time WMTW blanketed pretty much all of northern New England (Aroostook County would have been too far) and even got into Montreal. Their signal was huge.
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Aroostook County already has their own channel 8, as in WAGM-TV (CBS).

I asked WTNH-TV (ABC) channel 8 New Haven once about not being 316,000 watts and if WMTW-TV had anything to do with that. Was told it was slightly less due to tower height (analog era).
 
KML0224 said:
Aroostook County already has their own channel 8, as in WAGM-TV (CBS).

I asked WTNH-TV (ABC) channel 8 New Haven once about not being 316,000 watts and if WMTW-TV had anything to do with that. Was told it was slightly less due to tower height (analog era).
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You are quite right, I didn't think of that. Got to wonder if that created any co-channel interference in northwestern Maine and southeastern Quebec. Also got to wonder if that is the reason for WAGM's oblong Grade A/B contours, which are also tiny compared to WMTW's.

WMTW:

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WMTW and WAGM were fully spaced. In fact, when WMTW moved off Mt. Washington, they ended up slightly closer to WAGM than before.
 
ftballfan said:
WMTW and WAGM were fully spaced. In fact, when WMTW moved off Mt. Washington, they ended up slightly closer to WAGM than before.
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Yes, but given the reach of WMTW's signal when they were up on Mount Washington, could even that much proximity (230 miles, give or take) have still created problems? I know that when WSET-13 Lynchburg VA (ex-WLVA) was on analog, they could not move their transmitter closer to Roanoke, to prevent problems with WOWK Huntington WV and WLOS Asheville NC. WLOS also had kind of a "catbird seat" transmitter location (Mount Pisgah) with a similarly huge coverage area to WMTW, they were carried on translators (which had to pick up the mother signal OTA, this was before satellites) deep into southern Kentucky. I have seen WSET and WLOS "hammering it out" using rabbit ears in Wytheville VA (similar distance as between WMTW and WAGM), but that could have been freak propagation on one particular morning.

Moving WMTW to a more "normal" transmitter location would have caused no problem.
 
WMTW-TV had to be a lot closer to Portland for digital TV. They're now near Lake Sebago in Baldwin, ME. The coverage these days has issues. I think they're on a VHF channel (possibly still on 8). They also had to add an in-town translator in Portland on channel 26.
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KML0224 said:
WMTW-TV had to be a lot closer to Portland for digital TV. They're now near Lake Sebago in Baldwin, ME. The coverage these days has issues. I think they're on a VHF channel (possibly still on 8). They also had to add an in-town translator in Portland on channel 26.
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Yes, but that was about the sweetest transmitter location imaginable, massive coverage area. Shame to lose that.

WLOS, as I noted above, was similarly situated, and their signal once reached from Kentucky to Georgia, and from Charlotte to Knoxville and beyond. There have been many issues in recent years with gaining access to the Mount Pisgah transmitter, I believe the funicular railway (wow!) gave out, and they have to get there via helicopter, which is kind of tricky. I was able to pick up their analog OTA signal on channel 13 from the I-26 rest stop at Newberry with no problem. I haven't had that kind of success on Little Mountain (near the Newberry/Lexington county line), though I did pick up WUNF-33's DTV signal, which also broadcasts from Mount Pisgah.

As a side note, I stayed at the Mount Pisgah Inn one night (analog days, 2001 IIRC), took a small VHF/UHF antenna, and was able to get Columbia clear as a bell, pretty much a straight shot, and also got WTVD-11 from Durham and one or more of the Macon GA TV stations. At the time, they put UHF loops on the backs of the TV sets and said that your channel lineup might vary due to the elevation. I think they've put in satellite TV by now.
 
KML0224 said:
WMTW-TV had to be a lot closer to Portland for digital TV. They're now near Lake Sebago in Baldwin, ME. The coverage these days has issues. I think they're on a VHF channel (possibly still on 8). They also had to add an in-town translator in Portland on channel 26.
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correct. The main signal is on VHF8 but they have a fill in translator in Portland proper on 26
 
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