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Bangor Stations and Atlantic Canada Weather Maps

B

Bluenoser

Hopefully someone has an answer to this one...

I was watching some WVII weather clips on YouTube and noticed that in the mid-80s they had a weather map for the Maritimes and the island of Newfoundland...I know from pics on WABI's 60th anniversary website that they did the same (though TV5's reach was pretty well limited to Saint John, Moncton, Halifax and Charlotte County NB; my local cableco didn't add CBS until the early 80s when WJBK Detroit became available via Cancom). I remember that WLBZ ran Maritime weather updates during their prime time newsbreaks (at least on W57AQ, their Calais relay that was cablecast here), but can't remember if NewsCenter used Maritime/Nfld weather maps on the air. Did WLBZ do that?
 
Maybe WLBZ used to back in 80s, but not now. Also their translator W57AQ at Calais signed off about 5 years ago, as did the WABI Translator W61AO. Only Maine TV now available in Maritimes is Maine Public Broadcasting in much of NB on cable, and WAGM Presque isle in Northern NB.
 
rjoc said:
Maybe WLBZ used to back in 80s, but not now. Also their translator W57AQ at Calais signed off about 5 years ago, as did the WABI Translator W61AO. Only Maine TV now available in Maritimes is Maine Public Broadcasting in much of NB on cable, and WAGM Presque isle in Northern NB.
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My local cableco, Central Cable (now Eastlink), dropped WLBZ and WVII around 1988, due to signal concerns with WVII (it was decided to switch NBC at the same time, replacing both with their Cancom counterparts from Detroit, which were in turn replaced with Beantown stations in 1996).
 
rjoc said:
Maybe WLBZ used to back in 80s, but not now. Also their translator W57AQ at Calais signed off about 5 years ago, as did the WABI Translator W61AO. Only Maine TV now available in Maritimes is Maine Public Broadcasting in much of NB on cable, and WAGM Presque isle in Northern NB.
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That's horrible i thought it all goes to Boston or still Bangor,they should get it back just like they did in 1990s where I watch shows I never enjoy such lamb chop,Barney and friends and YTV's Big Comfy Coach which aired it cheaper in American Airwaves close even to WMED on nova scotia and got the feed back in the different provider and channel that's right fiberop from bell aliant. I wish Maine channels would return to the maritimes and look like its followed Yarmouth,Nova Scotia's direction to Boston. Wvii was gone in new Brunswick making the last Atlantic Canadian province to be very closer to Bangor airwaves.
 
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