Most distant network affiliate available on cable

[charlestondxman]

It's like that here too. We've had reporters move from Myrtle Beach to Charleston or Myrtle Beach to Columbia. The old sports anchor at WPDE, Rick Henry, moved from there to WIS in the late 1980s, even though both signals were significantly viewed over most of their coverage area (anywhere E of I-77, WPDE was available either on OTA or cable in the analog era).

WECT Wilmington was available in Georgetown, SC (110 miles away) well into the 1990s. It was carried in Pawleys Island (almost 100 miles away) until 2008.

WIS was available along the entire Grand Strand (150 miles from Columbia) till 2008. All the syndicated shows that aired on the Myrtle Beach stations or WECT were blacked out though.

Raleigh stations were also available in Wilmington until the 1990s. Most of WRAL's newscasts are still available on the CBS affiliate in Wilmington.

 

[Mr Tony]

Wolf Point, MT which is in the NE part of the state on the ND border has both KUMV from Williston, ND as NBC and also KUSA from Denver

 

[crainbebo]

Wanted to update...

Comcast cable in Fort Bragg, CA carries many stations from San Francisco (KTVU, KPIX, KGO, KQED, KNTV, KSTS, KDTV, KBCW) at a distance of almost 140 miles.
Suddenlink cable in Bishop, CA carries channels 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11 from Los Angeles, 230 miles away, plus KOCE 50 Huntington Beach at 255 miles, and KOLO 8 Reno (ABC) at 165 miles. An interesting cable lineup as Fresno's stations (85 mi, but over 14,000 foot Sierra Nevada mtns) are WAY closer than Los Angeles.
Up in Chalfant Valley, CA (20 mi? from Bishop), a small cable system carries KMGH, KUSA and KCNC from Denver, Colorado (!) almost 750 miles! Fox is KTTV, CW is KTLA, and ABC is also KOLO along with the Mountain time KMGH. ???

-crainbebo

 

[justpassingthough]

Wanted to update...

Comcast cable in Fort Bragg, CA carries many stations from San Francisco (KTVU, KPIX, KGO, KQED, KNTV, KSTS, KDTV, KBCW) at a distance of almost 140 miles.
Suddenlink cable in Bishop, CA carries channels 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11 from Los Angeles, 230 miles away, plus KOCE 50 Huntington Beach at 255 miles, and KOLO 8 Reno (ABC) at 165 miles. An interesting cable lineup as Fresno's stations (85 mi, but over 14,000 foot Sierra Nevada mtns) are WAY closer than Los Angeles.
Up in Chalfant Valley, CA (20 mi? from Bishop), a small cable system carries KMGH, KUSA and KCNC from Denver, Colorado (!) almost 750 miles! Fox is KTTV, CW is KTLA, and ABC is also KOLO along with the Mountain time KMGH. ???

-crainbebo

If I'm not mistaken, doesn't the cable system in Mammoth carry the LA affiliates plus some of the Reno and Sacramento stations? Its like they do everything to avoid carrying the Fresno stations.

 

[charlestondxman]

WVIA in Scranton, PA used to be available all over the NY Tri-State area in the 1980s as a PBS.

Baltimore stations also used to be available in Dover, Delaware.

 

[KML0224]

By definition, Dover, DE is the southern end of the Philadelphia/Wilmington DMA.

Although they don't now, the old Continental Cablevision in Saco and Old Orchard Beach, ME used to carry channels 4, 5, 7, 38 and 56 from Boston/Cambridge (in the pre-Syndex days of September 1989).

Brattleboro, VT carries quite a few network stations on their cable lineup, considering that they're in Windham County, VT, at the northwest fringe of the Boston/Worcester DMA: 57, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 41, 25, 31, 50, 38, 52, 68 and 19.

 

[crainbebo]

Wanted to update...

Comcast cable in Fort Bragg, CA carries many stations from San Francisco (KTVU, KPIX, KGO, KQED, KNTV, KSTS, KDTV, KBCW) at a distance of almost 140 miles.
Suddenlink cable in Bishop, CA carries channels 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11 from Los Angeles, 230 miles away, plus KOCE 50 Huntington Beach at 255 miles, and KOLO 8 Reno (ABC) at 165 miles. An interesting cable lineup as Fresno's stations (85 mi, but over 14,000 foot Sierra Nevada mtns) are WAY closer than Los Angeles.
Up in Chalfant Valley, CA (20 mi? from Bishop), a small cable system carries KMGH, KUSA and KCNC from Denver, Colorado (!) almost 750 miles! Fox is KTTV, CW is KTLA, and ABC is also KOLO along with the Mountain time KMGH. ???

-crainbebo

If I'm not mistaken, doesn't the cable system in Mammoth carry the LA affiliates plus some of the Reno and Sacramento stations? Its like they do everything to avoid carrying the Fresno stations.

Get up toward Mammoth Lakes and the cable system only has Reno's broadcast channels, except for KTLA 5 in Los Angeles (Why? is a question, because they already have KREN Reno for CW)

Another cable system in Crowley Lake, CA (0 residents and 3 million sagebrush) has ABC from KOLO, NBC from KUSA Denver, CBS from KCNC Denver, Fox from KDVR Denver, and CW from KTLA.

-crainbebo

 

[KML0224]

That list of stations for Comcast in Brattleboro, VT, since I can not edit the first post are:

WCAX-TV (CBS) channel 3 Burlington, VT
WBZ-TV (CBS) channel 4 Boston [in market]
WCVB-TV (ABC) channel 5 Boston [in market]
WHDH-TV (NBC) channel 7 Boston [in market]
WMUR-TV (ABC) channel 9 Manchester, NH [in market] (co-owned with WCVB-TV)
WCDC-TV (ABC) channel 19 Adams, MA (satellite of WTEN-TV channel 10 of Albany, NY)
WFXT-TV (FOX) channel 25 Boston [in market]
WNNE-TV (NBC) channel 31 White River Junction, VT (co-owned with WPTZ-TV channel 5 of Plattsburgh, NY)
WSBK-TV (MY) channel 38 Boston [in market]
WVTA-TV (PBS) channel 41 Windsor, VT (satellite of WETK-TV channel 33 of Burlington, VT)
WBIN-TV (IND) channel 50 Derry, NH [in market]
WEKW-TV (PBS) channel 52 Keene, NH [in market] (satellite of WENH-TV channel 11 of Durham)
WGBY-TV (PBS) channel 57 Springfield, MA
WBPX-TV (ION) channel 68 Boston [in market]

I didn't see WLVI-TV (CW) channel 56 of Cambridge, MA [in market] or WGBH-TV (PBS) channel 2 of Boston [in market] listed. As for a second PBS affiliate being carried, why WGBY-TV from Springfield, MA? Technically, WVTA-TV from Windsor, VT is out-of-market. Windsor, VT is in Windsor County, VT, a portion of the Burlington (VT)/Plattsburgh (NY) DMA.

As for no WGBH-TV, are they not being carried because of that agreement (partnership?) a few months ago, involving WGBH-TV and New Hampshire Public Television? ???