Cable systems carrying three stations of the same network

[KeyTimes950]

What is the most distant network station you're seen or heard of on a cable system?

For me, that honor still goes to WSTV-9 Steubenville, Ohio, now WTOV, being seen more than 100 air miles to the northeast in Philipsburg, Centre County, PA, in the 1970s and 80s (source is the listings in the old Pennsylvania Mirror newspaper). More recently, I can't think of anyone getting that much range, except perhaps WPSU-3 Clearfield, which serves as public television in much of the area from Allegheny National Forest to Lake Augusta (Sunbury).

 

[ngriffin]

Bainbridge, GA has three ABC stations on the local cable system. WTXL from Tallahassee, WMBB from Panama City, and WSB from Atlanta. WSB is heavily blacked out due to syndex. Not sure about WMBB since it has significantly viewed status. WTXL is the only one in HD.

 

[searadiofreak]

What is the most distant network station you're seen or heard of on a cable system?

For me, that honor still goes to WSTV-9 Steubenville, Ohio, now WTOV, being seen more than 100 air miles to the northeast in Philipsburg, Centre County, PA, in the 1970s and 80s (source is the listings in the old Pennsylvania Mirror newspaper). More recently, I can't think of anyone getting that much range, except perhaps WPSU-3 Clearfield, which serves as public television in much of the area from Allegheny National Forest to Lake Augusta (Sunbury).

Well, as you go west, you will find many 100+ miles affiliates being shown all over. In Colorado, Denver stations are on almost every cable system throughout the state, the same with Salt Lake in Utah. Of course, these areas have few markets that can support smaller locals. But even in WA and OR, the Seattle and Portland affilaites are shown throughout much of the state.

 

[Tim-In-Houston]

Like I said, the memory of KAIT being on Dyersburg's cable is kind of vague. My grandmother had cable since the early 70's, but we lived South of Dyersburg outside of the cable system's coverage. It actually may not have been for very long, like in the early 70's, before networks like HBO or WTBS came in. My parents had a big antenna with a rotor, and we could get KAIT, WPSD, and KFVS, although their signals were more snowy at times than the Memphis stations or WBBJ in Jackson.

I'm really not sure what kind of news coverage WPSD or KFVS are giving Dyersburg now. They probably gave more coverage for them beacuse of being on the cable system there. Cable One dropped them both a few months before the digital conversion in 2009, and I wouldn't be surprised if they cut it out as a result. I get to see them occasionally when my wife and I are visiting her sister in the Marion/Carbondale, IL area, and it seems like Dyersburg is still on the weather map, but I haven't noticed any news coverage.

When I briefly attended Murray State University in the south/southwestern part of Kentucky the local cable system (Cablevision, but I couldn't tell you which incarnation/ownership it was...a lot of local systems still went by Cablevision in that area at the time) carried WSIL-3 out of Carbondale/Marion (the DMA's ABC station) as well was WBBJ-Jackson and WKRN-Nashville. We also got KFVS and WPSD (the local CBS and NBC) as well was WTVF and WSMV out of Nashville.

And, as I recall, none of the over-lapping syndicated programming was ever "syndex"ed.

 

[bpatrick]

Verizon in Dover Delaware seems to like giving the folks a choice in network affiliates.

2 ABC - WMAR-TV 2 Baltimore
3 CBS - KYW-TV 3 Philadelphia
4 CBS - WBOC-TV 16 Salisbury, MD
5 FOX - WBOC-TV 21 Salisbury, MD
6 ABC - WPVI-TV 6 Philadelphia
7 ABC - WMDT-TV 47 Salisbury, MD
10 NBC - WCAU-TV 10 Philadelphia
11 NBC - WBAL-TV 11 Baltimore
13 FOX - WTXF-TV 29 Philadelphia

So 3 ABCs & two from the others.

Interesting that it doesn't carry WJZ, given that it carries ABC
and NBC from Baltimore and all three (plus Fox) from Philadelphia.

 

[Bluenoser]

In the early 70s, Ocala, Florida certainly qualified for 2 of the nets, here's what the Cox Communications line-up looked like in July 1970, sourced from the local TV Scene Day by Day:

2 WESH-NBC Daytona Beach/Orlando
3 WEDU-NET Tampa
4 WJXT-CBS Jacksonville
5 WUFT-NET Gainesville
6 WDBO-CBS Orlando
7 Weather/Music
8 WFLA-NBC Tampa
9 WFTV-ABC Orlando
10 WLCY-ABC St. Petersburg
11 WTOG-Ind St. Petersburg
12 WFGA-NBC Jacksonville
13 WTVT-CBS Tampa

Which, if you're keeping score, makes 3 Eye and Peacock stations, 2 ABC and NET stations, an indie and a weather channel

 

[Poledo]

Bainbridge, GA has three ABC stations on the local cable system. WTXL from Tallahassee, WMBB from Panama City, and WSB from Atlanta. WSB is heavily blacked out due to syndex. Not sure about WMBB since it has significantly viewed status. WTXL is the only one in HD.

You still in Bainbridge Neil? Any news on how Mediacom Bainbridge plans to handle the new Albany ABC affiliate WALB-ABC? Since WALB-10-2 is SD OTA, I'm trying to figure out if WALB/Raycom are feeding ABC in HD somehow to the local cable systems. I read that in the northern part of WALB's coverage area cable systems are dropping Raycom sister ABC affiliate WTVM and replacing it with WALB-ABC while keeping WSB and (in most cases) WTXL. I haven't read or heard anything about systems south of Albany. As I recall WSB was the technical ABC affiliate for the Albany DMA (cable/satellite, not available OTA) so it seems that WSB should now be dropped from cable/satellite in the DMA now that it has it's own affiliate.