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Markets that refuse to carry WGN/WGN America
- Thread starter dgendvil
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I know that this is a smaller town, but WGN is no longer on Cable One in Dyersburg, TN.
Comcast (back as AT&T Broadband) Atlanta dropped WGN in 2000 to make room for Oxygen, only to pick it back up in 2005. My family switched cable providers to a municipal owned system in 2001 that carried WGN throughout (the system shut down in 2007, and we were forced back to what is now Comcast).
Keep in mind WGN has a Chicago bias, and I suspect many cable systems outside of the midwest that don't have much viewship for WGN see no need to carry it. Of course...I don't WGN will remain a superstation much longer.
Keep in mind WGN has a Chicago bias, and I suspect many cable systems outside of the midwest that don't have much viewship for WGN see no need to carry it. Of course...I don't WGN will remain a superstation much longer.
I was thinking the same thing about the Chicago slant. I would think west coast stations would've picked up an LA station or something else. I recall getting KTVU from Oakland in the early 80s.
So if they did carry another station closer and then that station was no longer able to be carried it would make sense they go with something else rather than another Superstation.
So if they did carry another station closer and then that station was no longer able to be carried it would make sense they go with something else rather than another Superstation.
dgendvil said:
Well, technically WGN has been carried in the Seattle market for a couple of years now. Click Cable TV (previously Click Network which is run by Tacoma Power), has carried WGN since late March of 2007, I know this because my parents have subscribed to Click since August of 2006, however the reason I say technically it has benn carried is beacuse Click only serves the greater Tacoma area as well as it's suburbs including Lakewood which is actually a seperate city now, Fircrest and University Place. I do not know if WGN is on any cable systems in the Greater Seattle area, but it is on cable down here in Tacoma.
GSP163 said:
Cablevision here on Long Island carried WGN for a few years in the 90's, but dropped it supposedly due to a lack of interest.
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I think I saw something that said WGN only got something like 60 million subscribers nationwide. That's Versus territory.
Part of that is not having such quality original programming as Tyler Perry's House of Payne. :
Re: Chicago bias theory: It's an interesting "What if?" If WGN had decided to program more like Ted Turner programmed WTBS, how different would Tribune's history have been? (Could we say ditto for other attempted superstations like WWOR?)
Part of that is not having such quality original programming as Tyler Perry's House of Payne. :
Re: Chicago bias theory: It's an interesting "What if?" If WGN had decided to program more like Ted Turner programmed WTBS, how different would Tribune's history have been? (Could we say ditto for other attempted superstations like WWOR?)
Well, I'd presume WGN/WGN America/Superstation WGN's carriage is directly tied to the interest in the Chicago sports programming it carries...and not much else. And I'm guessing that most of that is tied to a Midwestern base...we've had WGN here on our cable system in Northeast Ohio probably since it first became available nationally.
Interest outside of the Midwest would appear to be spotty.
Tribune recognizes this limitation, which is why they're trying to go after TBS now.
Me? As long as they show "Corner Gas" until it goes off the air next year, I'm fine.
Interest outside of the Midwest would appear to be spotty.
Tribune recognizes this limitation, which is why they're trying to go after TBS now.
Me? As long as they show "Corner Gas" until it goes off the air next year, I'm fine.
OhioMediaWatch said:
In my opinion, I think WGN was carried on many cable systems from coast-to-coast -- most editions of TV Guide (outside of the northeast) had WGN in the listings.
As for WGN having a strong interest in the Midwest -- apparently, that was not the case in Bay City, Michigan; the Charter system there does not have WGN in its lineups, and it was never picked up by its predecessors (Gerity and Bresnan). This despite the fact of being within range of the AM signal of WGN radio.
Here in Phoenix (where it seems like at least one-third of the population lived in the Chicagoland area at some point), Cox carries WGN America on Channel 18, which is part of the Limited Basic tier that all of their cable subscribers receive.
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