Kirksville MO, but that area can't even get all big four networks OTA to begin with
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Areas that never got UPN (OTA or Cable)
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South Bend only had UPN available OTA, if you had a TV with an ATSC tuner (converter boxes were rare during this time, the the few on the market then were close to $200), & could get WSBT-DT on then real channel 30, but returned to 22 on 2/17/2009 (the original transition date). Otherwise for South Bend, it was never available analog OTA, but was available on cable (the market got UPN in 2003).
Fort Wayne didn't have UPN or WB OTA (not sure about OTA DTV), but were available on cable. I know Terre Haute didn't have UPN OTA, & not sure if it ever was available on OTA DTV in those days, or on cable.
Fort Wayne didn't have UPN or WB OTA (not sure about OTA DTV), but were available on cable. I know Terre Haute didn't have UPN OTA, & not sure if it ever was available on OTA DTV in those days, or on cable.
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Scranton, PA never got a UPN - some UPN shows aired overnight on WYOU-22 (CBS affiliate) for a short time in the '90s, but they never got their own UPN station.
Most of the Quincy (IL)/Hannibal (MO) market--other than when KHQA-7 (CBS) carried Smackdown on Saturday evenings at 10:30PM.
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A lot of surprisingly large markets had to make do with cable or LPTV coverage of the last two English-speaking "weblets" that grew up in the 90s. Rochester, NY, a TV market with about a half-million TV homes and over a million people in the metro, had the traditional big 5 served by full power outlets (3 Vs for the traditional big 3 of ABC, CBS and NBC, a high-powered U each for Fox and PBS). But the WB ran on a cable-only channel, and only got that because it was under common ownership with Time-Warner Cable. UPN had to make do with a low-powered U that barely covered the city of license, which eventually wormed its way onto the cable after several years of operation. Today in the digital age the big 5 still get full power signals while CW is a subchannel of the ABC affiliate (a full power V) and MyNetwork is making do with the same LPTV signal that used to carry UPN. If you're among the 25% of households in the market that depend on OTA signals, your menu for TV choice is no bigger than it was in 1986. I suspect the choice in other cities for those without cable or a dish is thinner still. And let's not even talk about the viewer whose native language isn't English, because cities like ours have never had a Telemundo or Univision over-the-air signal at hand, and half the country is probably in the same boat.
If it's true that the FCC is going to squeeze heritage VHFs back onto their old channels and put a lot more stations closer together on the band to open up space for wi-fi and broadand, let's hope they put a little push toward enocuraging more stations to use their subchannel capacity not to squeeze existing stations into a smaller space, but provide carriage in their markets for previously unavailable program services.
If it's true that the FCC is going to squeeze heritage VHFs back onto their old channels and put a lot more stations closer together on the band to open up space for wi-fi and broadand, let's hope they put a little push toward enocuraging more stations to use their subchannel capacity not to squeeze existing stations into a smaller space, but provide carriage in their markets for previously unavailable program services.
St. Louis never had a fulltime UPN affliate until the fall of 2002. UPN shows were seen either overnight on KPLR former WB now CW station.
Kansas City lost UPN from January 1998 til mid March of 1998 after KSMO and KCWE swap networks. The WB moving to KSMO and KCWE taking on UPN. Most of us thought the network was gone
Kansas City lost UPN from January 1998 til mid March of 1998 after KSMO and KCWE swap networks. The WB moving to KSMO and KCWE taking on UPN. Most of us thought the network was gone
San Antonio didn't have UPN for a little while in the mid-nineties after KRRT (now KMYS) went WB. I believe the NBC affiliate (then KMOL, now WOAI) aired UPN after the 10pm news. I'm not sure what happened to Leno. I was very young. Probably aired later. Why are you asking anyways? UPN is long gone.
WTHI-TV had the UPN affiliation in Terre Haute. I suppose the programs aired after Letterman, but my newspaper didn't give listings after midnight.Dave said:
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