living near two time zones?

[schmave]

Many cable systems in western Ohio carried some or all Fort Wayne stations until the mid-2000s anyway. I remember visiting my grandparents who lived an hour southeast of Fort Wayne and watching some primetime programs on a delayed basis. I'd watch the Simpsons "live" on Sunday night on the Dayton Fox affiliate, then watch it an hour later on Fort Wayne's Fox.
I understand why Indiana affiliates did it. Certainly would have been a bonus for Ohio viewers who missed the show when it originally aired or simply wanted to watch again.
Not only has this not happened in years, but Fort Wayne coverage in Ohio has been severely cut back over the years with cable systems carrying fewer out-of-market channels and Lima getting its own affiliates for all four major networks.

 

[ftballfan]

The Wichita major stations generally rebroadcast through most, if not all of Western Kansas.
Denver and Wichita's major stations are available on most cable systems. Not sure about
the syndex and football....

If both CBS affiliates are significantly viewed and both air different games, I think both games would air in the clear. Not 100% certain about that

 

[gr8oldies]

When I worked at WLFI in Lafayette, we got permission to carry the Chicago Bears, rather than the "Southwestern feed" that Indianapolis was stuck with. No issues with either feed being blacked out, in fact we got WISH and WLFI on cable (co-owned now but not then)

 

[KeithE4]

When I worked at WLFI in Lafayette, we got permission to carry the Chicago Bears, rather than the "Southwestern feed" that Indianapolis was stuck with. No issues with either feed being blacked out, in fact we got WISH and WLFI on cable (co-owned now but not then)

Was this after the Colts arrived? When I was growing up in Bloomington in the '60s and early '70s, WISH aired Bears games.

 

[nomadcowatbk]

The Wichita major stations generally rebroadcast through most, if not all of Western Kansas.
Denver and Wichita's major stations are available on most cable systems. Not sure about
the syndex and football....

but they cover things like high school football in far Western KS? aren't they ignored by both markets?

 

[RMarino]

I live just an hour from the Central time line in Tennessee these days. Really one distant rimshot from the Crossville area makes it into parts of the Knoxville market and they may do dual time checks in the morning. Cumberland and Fentress Counties gets all of the Knoxville TV stations and none from Nashville, so "Live at Five at Four" is actually at 3.

Yes, the jocks do live time checks as "It's XX past the hour." They tried for a long time to avoid having to do dual times, but now they have to when they are promoting specific shows. "Listen to American Top 40: The Seventies, Sundays at 12 Central, 1 Eastern."

To bring this back to TV, it's interesting how WBXX (licensed to Crossville) completely ignores the fact they are in Central. The "CW 20 News At Ten" is actually on at 9:00 in their city of license.

 

[gr8oldies]

When I worked at WBYR, Van Wert-licensed by studios in and serving Fort Wayne, we did dual time checks in morning drive, but all scheduling and other time references were in EST (non-advanced) "Reelin' In The Years, Sunday night at 7"...never "Sunday night at 7, 8 in Ohio". Logs were also kept in EST only. Stations on the Indiana/Kentucky border would reference "slow time" and "fast time"

Yes, the jocks do live time checks as "It's XX past the hour." They tried for a long time to avoid having to do dual times, but now they have to when they are promoting specific shows. "Listen to American Top 40: The Seventies, Sundays at 12 Central, 1 Eastern."

To bring this back to TV, it's interesting how WBXX (licensed to Crossville) completely ignores the fact they are in Central. The "CW 20 News At Ten" is actually on at 9:00 in their city of license.