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Islip, Long Island, NY (August 21, 1979)

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from Newsday-Suffolk edition via Newspapers.com

2 WCBS-CBS New York
3 WTBS Atlanta
4 WNBC-NBC New York
5 WNEW New York
6 Showtime
7 WABC-ABC New York
8 WLIW-PBS Garden City
9 WOR New York
10 News/MSG/Metrovision Live
11 WPIX New York
12 Time/Weather/Nassau Coliseum
13 WNET-PBS New York
14 Philadelphia Programs (WTAF/WPHL/WKBS)
15 WTNH-ABC New Haven
16 WVIT-NBC Hartford
17 Metro Marquee (listings for distant channels)
18 Stocks/Financial News/Diocese
19 WNYE-PBS New York
20 WNYC-PBS New York
21 WXTV-SIN Paterson
22 Programs from WSBK and WBZ-NBC Boston, WUTV and WGR-NBC Buffalo, WSMW Worcester
23 WNJU Newark
24 Local Origination
25 WEDW-PBS Bridgeport
26 OTB
 
What would have been the point of importing WUTV and WGR from Buffalo, even on a part-time basis? And how would the signal be delivered to the cable company? Would microwave get that far east, into a market that has no connection whatsoever with Buffalo?
 
IM42A said:
What would have been the point of importing WUTV and WGR from Buffalo, even on a part-time basis? And how would the signal be delivered to the cable company? Would microwave get that far east, into a market that has no connection whatsoever with Buffalo?
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At least Buffalo is in New York State. At the time, NBC was on WGR and the Bills games would be available. Why carry programming from Boston which historically was and still is a NYC rival?????
 
Prescott Joe said:
At least Buffalo is in New York State. At the time, NBC was on WGR and the Bills games would be available. Why carry programming from Boston which historically was and still is a NYC rival?????
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But at least Boston would be available OTA with a high enough antenna, 159 miles as the crow flies (or is that even possible?), and there might be microwave links in that area. How was the signal delivered from Buffalo to Islip? OTA would be impossible.
 
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