Markets with No Affiliation Changes

[ssetta]

Portland, ME:

6 NBC, 8 ABC, 13 CBS

Bangor, ME:
2 NBC, 5 CBS, 7 ABC

Springfield, MA:

22 NBC, 40 ABC, 57 PBS

Burlington/Plattsburgh, VT:

3 CBS, 5 NBC, 22 ABC

 

[fybush]

Springfield, MA:

22 NBC, 40 ABC, 57 PBS

Read the rest of the thread first - channel 40 (and 55 before that) was CBS in the WHYN-TV days.

 

[w9wi]

Has their FOX affiliate always been on channel 47?

Madison or Lansing?

(I know Madison's has always been 47. Actually I'm pretty sure Lansing as well.)

 

[KeithE4]

Bangor, ME:
2 NBC, 5 CBS, 7 ABC

WTWO/WBRZ Ch. 2 was originally CBS, and WABI Ch. 5 was originally NBC. They swapped in 1955. WEMT/WVII Ch. 7 has always been ABC.

Springfield, MA:
22 NBC, 40 ABC, 57 PBS

Already mentioned earlier, but WHYN-TV 40 was originally CBS primary and ABC/Dumont secondary. it switched to ABC primary in 1958 (with CBS secondary until 1965) after Channel 3 in a Hartford picked up CBS.

 

[IdentityProgramming]

WJAR in Providence has been a primary NBC affiliate since it's sign-on in 1949.

Gary Begin
Identity Programming Consultant
Jackson, TN
www.garybegin.com

 

[KML0224]

Quite true...but Providence/New Bedford doesn't qualify here, since WPRI-TV channel 12 went from ABC to CBS and WLNE-TV channel 6 went from CBS to ABC.

 

[rjoc]

Don't forget Presque Isle, Maine WAGM TV Channel 8 used to be all three networks!! Now pretty much strictly CBS. I also believe their FOX channel is a digital channel of Channel 8.

And the only other station in Presque Isle, WMEM Channel 10, has been PBS all along, repeating the Maine Public Broadcasting Network.

In Bangor, Before the sign-on of WEMT (Now WVII) Channel 7 in mid-60's. Both WLBZ Channel 2 was NBC, with secondary ABC, as was WABI Channel 5, CBS, also picking assorted ABC programs.

 

[KML0224]

WAGM-TV channel 8 was listed in TV Guide as CBS/NBC/ABC at one point. I think they even carried WWE Smackdown! or Enterprise from UPN too. As for WAGM-DT, FOX is carried as channel 8-2.

Speaking of tiny markets, I think KXGN-TV channel 5 of Glendive, MT has always been at least a primary NBC affiliate. Also, I think they are the only remaining network TV station in the country to cherry pick from another network without resorting to digital subchannels (meaning it happens on analog channel 5).

 

[dhett]

Speaking of tiny markets, I think KXGN-TV channel 5 of Glendive, MT has always been at least a primary NBC affiliate. Also, I think they are the only remaining network TV station in the country to cherry pick from another network without resorting to digital subchannels (meaning it happens on analog channel 5).

Actually, they're primary CBS, with NBC secondary.