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Non-Big Three Superstations

Gravel Switch said:
Those two stations were definitely popular and carried on CATV systems in the Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia areas. "Mini" superstations, if you will.
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Indeed they were. WXIX was carried basically everywhere north of Interstate 64 in Kentucky, and got as far east as Huntington and Charleston WV. It was hugely popular before WVAH went on the air in the early 1980s.

WTTV made it into Huntington in the late 1970s.
 
vchimpanzee said:
I don't know whether I mentioned it here, but WRET Channel 36 in Charlotte was briefly a "superstation". I remember it being on cable at the beach in the late 70s. Then it took the NBC affiliation when WSOC changed to ABC. WCCB was left without a network but later became the Fox station.
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There weren’t very many cable systems in South Carolina at the time outside of rural areas that picked them up. I think Sumter had them in the late 70s and probably MB since there was only one local station at the time in WBTW.

Charleston never had them as the cable wasn’t wired until 1977 or 78 here and the only super was WTCG/WTBS for a long time.
 
charlestondxman said:
There weren’t very many cable systems in South Carolina at the time outside of rural areas that picked them up. I think Sumter had them in the late 70s and probably MB since there was only one local station at the time in WBTW.

Charleston never had them as the cable wasn’t wired until 1977 or 78 here and the only super was WTCG/WTBS for a long time.
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WTTG got into Columbia, SC into the late 1980s
 
charlestondxman said:
There weren’t very many cable systems in South Carolina at the time outside of rural areas that picked them up. I think Sumter had them in the late 70s and probably MB since there was only one local station at the time in WBTW.

Charleston never had them as the cable wasn’t wired until 1977 or 78 here and the only super was WTCG/WTBS for a long time.
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Myrtle Beach cable did indeed carry WRET in the late 1970s. I may be having a false memory, but I think they carried the station for a short time after it went with NBC and became WPCQ. It probably took it a while for some cable operators to realize that they were carrying yet another NBC affiliate, but since MB didn't have one locally (carried WIS and WECT, and earlier, WCIV), it wouldn't have violated any in-market network exclusivity provisions.
 


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