NY1 gets upstate carriage

[fybush]

Starting 1/1 (or thereabouts), we'll finally have NY1 on the Time Warner Rochester system, where it will live on digital channel 122. They've teased us with the channel before, carrying it for short periods when there was big news out of the city (including for a couple of months after 9/11), but it'll be nice to have it for good. We haven't had any local NYC news on TV up here since the WWOR satellite feed went away a decade ago. (WPIX had disappeared from the system even earlier, and we only had WNEW-TV for a couple of years in the early 80s.)<P ID="signature">______________
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[6tothebronx]

That's cool. I wish Time Warner made NY1 available to satellite providers. I live right across the river from Manhattan and could benefit from their news.


> Starting 1/1 (or thereabouts), we'll finally have NY1 on the
> Time Warner Rochester system, where it will live on digital
> channel 124. They've teased us with the channel before,
> carrying it for short periods when there was big news out of
> the city (including for a couple of months after 9/11), but
> it'll be nice to have it for good. We haven't had any local
> NYC news on TV up here since the WWOR satellite feed went
> away a decade ago. (WPIX had disappeared from the system
> even earlier, and we only had WNEW-TV for a couple of years
> in the early 80s.)
>

 

[toby]

> That's cool. I wish Time Warner made NY1 available to
> satellite providers. I live right across the river from
> Manhattan and could benefit from their news.

That would be nice, but I think the main reason they keep it of satellite is to have a selling point for cable.

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[Oldiesmike101]

Here in Schenectady NY Time Warner Cable only has NY1 but i don't like watching them, very boring. I wish Time Warner cable would add the 2 channels from nyc on our cable system: WCBS-TV & WPIX-TV both nyc channels we can definitly use up here in the capitol region as local nyc channels on our cable system. It stinks too that this new years we can't watch the honeymooners marathon on WB11 here schenectady ny since the WB45 doesnt seem to be picking up 11's feed like they do with the ny mets games plus its no longer on the cable.
> Starting 1/1 (or thereabouts), we'll finally have NY1 on the
> Time Warner Rochester system, where it will live on digital
> channel 122. They've teased us with the channel before,
> carrying it for short periods when there was big news out of
> the city (including for a couple of months after 9/11), but
> it'll be nice to have it for good. We haven't had any local
> NYC news on TV up here since the WWOR satellite feed went
> away a decade ago. (WPIX had disappeared from the system
> even earlier, and we only had WNEW-TV for a couple of years
> in the early 80s.)
>

 

[KML0224]

> That would be nice, but I think the main reason they keep it
> of satellite is to have a selling point for cable.
>

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[6tothebronx]

It's the same situation in the NYC area with Cablevision's News 12 networks. Their slogan is "Always on cable, never on satellite." I doubt many people who want satellite would stick with cable just to keep News 12. When I had cable I used to get News 12 New Jersey. Now I can just watch NJN news on PBS and get the same news.



> > That would be nice, but I think the main reason they keep
> it
> > of satellite is to have a selling point for cable.
> >
>
> New England Cable News, the Newton, MA-based regional cable
> news channel, actually brags about not being available on
> satellite. That's probably because they're half-owned by
> Comcast.
>

 

[BobRoss]

> I wish Time Warner
> cable would add the 2 channels from nyc on our cable system:
> WCBS-TV & WPIX-TV both nyc channels we can definitly use up

It'll never happen, sadly. TW will never add a network affiliate from out of town, when there's already a local one in place. Obviously, WRGB has been around forever, providing CBS service to the market.

Closer to Syracuse, we used to have WPIX as well, and I loved it. But when WPIX became a WB affiliate, and the little piddles**t WB affiliates started popping up in Utica and Syracuse shortly thereafter, that was the end of WPIX on cable. It's too bad customers can't collectively "veto" the crappy small-timer WB affiliates off cable and get quality ones like WPIX instead.

Or, why doesn't WPIX offer a "cable-only" feed like WGN Chicago does? After all, WGN is technically a WB affiliate... but only in the Chicago area. They manage to stay on cable everywhere else, because they put different programming on the air during prime time. It allows all the viewers to see WGN's News at Nine... but never having been to Chicago, I'd rather see Mr. G over Tom Skilling any day!