Danville, KY (October 18, 1981)

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from The Advocate-Messenger via Newspapers.com

DANVILLE/LANCASTER
2 WLEX-NBC Lexington
3 WAVE-NBC Louisville
4 WKYT-CBS Lexington
5 WTBS Atlanta
6 Local Origination
7 (until 11pm) Nickelodeon
(after 11pm) SPN
8 WKLE-PBS Lexington
9 HBO/CBN
10 WTVQ-ABC Lexington
11 WHAS-CBS Louisville
12 WDRB Louisville
13 ESPN

HARRODSBURG
3 WAVE-NBC Louisville
5 HBO/CBN
6 Local Origination
9 WCPO-CBS Cincinnati
11 WHAS-CBS Louisville
12 WKRC-ABC Cincinnati
13 WKLE-PBS Lexington
18 WLEX-NBC Lexington
27 WKYT-CBS Lexington
32 WLKY-ABC Louisville
36 WTVQ-ABC Lexington
41 WDRB Louisville

 

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Curious that they would carry some Cincinnati stations in Harrodsburg, but not in Danville which is only a few miles south. At one time, both Cincinnati and Louisville stations were widely viewed in central Kentucky, part of this being due to Lexington's status as a "UHF island" with difficult receiving and tuning requirements, and part of it being a legacy from the time when Lexington did not have full major-network service. You still have Louisville (but no longer Cincinnati) stations on cable in Frankfort, and Cincinnati stations carried in places north of Lexington such as Paris and Georgetown, but Lexington is now its own robust market, and the advent of digital (which is overwhelmingly a UHF environment) has removed the once-favored status of Louisville and Cincinnati VHF stations.