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Markets with one channel that has 2 network affiliations

Putting a Co-Owned LPTV or Cable only affiliate of one of the lower networks like UPN or PAX on one of the digital subchannels seems to be becoming commonplace.


> > I know of a couple others that carry a second network on
> > their
> > digital channel: WCTI/12, the ABC affiliate in
> > Greenville/New
> > Bern/Washington, NC, carries ABC on digital 48-1 and UPN
> on
> > 48-2; WCYB/5 (NBC) Bristol/Kingsport/Johnson City carries
> > NBC
> > on (I think) 5-1 and the WB on 5-2.
> >
> >
> >
> Received KYTV-DT 44 from Springfield,MO (via Tropo
> enhancement) weeks after
> getting a DTV receiver. 3-1 carries the NBC programming (in
> HD) and 3-2 carries a simulcast of co-owned LPTV "UPN-15".
>
>
> Also, WMLT-30 Memphis carries UPN as primary, and WB as
> secondary.
>
 
> > I know of a couple others that carry a second network on
> > their
> > digital channel: WCTI/12, the ABC affiliate in
> > Greenville/New
> > Bern/Washington, NC, carries ABC on digital 48-1 and UPN
> on
> > 48-2; WCYB/5 (NBC) Bristol/Kingsport/Johnson City carries
> > NBC
> > on (I think) 5-1 and the WB on 5-2.
> >
> >
> >
> Received KYTV-DT 44 from Springfield,MO (via Tropo
> enhancement) weeks after
> getting a DTV receiver. 3-1 carries the NBC programming (in
> HD) and 3-2 carries a simulcast of co-owned LPTV "UPN-15".
>
>
> Also, WMLT-30 Memphis carries UPN as primary, and WB as
> secondary.
>

WLMT carries UPN from 7 to 9, has local news from 9 to 10, and then carries WB from 10 to Midnight on Monday through Friday and WB from 6 to 9 on Sunday since UPN doesn't have anything that night.

Before that WB was carried in Memphis by WPTY ABC 24 from 11:05 to 1:05 after Nightline.<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by ccmfan on 08/23/05 12:58 PM.</FONT></P>
 
>> BTW: When WMDT signed on, they took both the ABC and NBC
> affiliations away from WBOC. The ABC alliance was the
> primary one.
>
I recall WMDT airing The Cosby Show and Family Ties on
Thursday nights in the mid-'80s, and NBC's NFL coverage
(Baltimore having an AFC team) on Sunday afternoons. I
keep thinking they also carried Golden Girls, and perhaps
one or two NBC shows from 10-11 AM, while ABC was down.
 
> It was that way last summer - They run CBS Prime time from
> 6pm-9pm MT, then cherry pick 1 hour of NBC programming from
> 9-10pm. You actually get to see 2 sets of credits around
> 9:59pm - First NBC (and if it's a 10pm ET program, a la "Law
> and Order", you get to see the Leno promo - which doesn't air
> on KXGN, but is airing at that precise minute on
> KUMV-TV channel 8 of Williston, SD - on CT), then a slate then the CBS
> credits (from the program that aired one hour ago) leading
> into KTVQ-TV channel 2 Billing's 10pm news (simulcast on KXGN); KXGN
> has their "Montana East News" at 10:35pm with Letterman
> airing at 11:00pm.
>

That's Williston, NORTH Dakota. Seriously, that's surely something you'd NEVER get for television here in the northeast, especially in greater Hartford! :)
 
> Putting a Co-Owned LPTV or Cable only affiliate of one of
> the lower networks like UPN or PAX on one of the digital
> subchannels seems to be becoming commonplace.
>
>
> > > I know of a couple others that carry a second network on
>
> > > their
> > > digital channel: WCTI/12, the ABC affiliate in
> > > Greenville/New
> > > Bern/Washington, NC, carries ABC on digital 48-1 and UPN
>

I can remember WTVA in Tupelo, MS carrying ABC and NBC back in the day. But, the only ABC programming I can ever remember them carrying is Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, and Monday Night Football. Now, that market has a full-time ABC affiliate with WTVA now Excusively NBC
 
> > Putting a Co-Owned LPTV or Cable only affiliate of one of
> > the lower networks like UPN or PAX on one of the digital
> > subchannels seems to be becoming commonplace.
> >
> >
> > > > I know of a couple others that carry a second network
> on
> >
> > > > their
> > > > digital channel: WCTI/12, the ABC affiliate in
> > > > Greenville/New
> > > > Bern/Washington, NC, carries ABC on digital 48-1 and
> UPN
> >
>
> I can remember WTVA in Tupelo, MS carrying ABC and NBC back
> in the day. But, the only ABC programming I can ever
> remember them carrying is Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley,
> and Monday Night Football. Now, that market has a full-time
> ABC affiliate with WTVA now Excusively NBC
>
There was a full-time ABC affiliate twice before in that market:
WCBI/4 switched from CBS to ABC around 1977, then went back
to CBS in '79 (just in time to catch CBS as it became number
one again); WLOV/27 was ABC before it went to Fox. WTVA has
been full-time NBC since at least the late '70s.
 
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