...living in Sharon, Wisconsin, in 1999-2004 -- roughly equidistant from the Milwaukee, Chicago, Rockford and Madison metro areas -- I subscribed to Dish Network and, because they didn't have Rockford on the bird yet, I had, at different times, Salt Lake City and Dallas-Ft. Worth as my "local" allocation in addition to the New York and Los Angeles network O&Os. While the Salt Lake pack included then-UPN affiliate KJZZ-TV/14, I thought each station's local news editorial policy -- it seemed as if they'd reverently report every time a member of the LDS hierarchy ate an apple or took a dump -- they fouled up the DFW pack by misplacing KDTN/2 Denton, then being billed as "KETA 2" (the second-level PBS sister of KETA-TV/13) on the channel KETA-TV was supposed to go on (the picture quality was always sub-standard, I suspect from OTA in-line interference from KJRH/2 Tulsa or KACV-TV/2 Amarillo)...harrisburgpatv said:
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Harrisburgpatv, did you recieve Miami, Houston, Tampa, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, etc.
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retrosmart said:
because, 7 ate 9
My favorite thing about WGN is that back in the early-mid 1990s, they aired the 3 Stooges cartoons Monday-Friday at 3pm Eastern time (2pm Chicago time). The cartoons, made in the mid 1960s, had live wraparounds done by The 3 Stooges of the day (Larry Fine, Moe Howard and "Curly Joe" DeRita). I was able to surrepitiously tape them at work. There were 156 cartoons made. Each one had an EP (episode) number, and I crossed the numbers off a list as I saw them. Funny thing was that there were a few they never showed. I found one of the ones they didn't air on a compilation tape with a bunch of other cartoons. There was nothing "bad" about it. The live Stooges made only 40 wraparounds, of which 39 were generic enough to re-use. One featuring, I think, a dentist office gag was either not used much or severely cut for the 1990s re-packaging by a firm called DIK.
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retrosmart said:
Actually, I think for a time I did try Boston and Chicago....I remember watching Red Sox games on WFXT when they had them..
Right now I have Comcast cable and only my true local Harrisburg channels..
Is Hercules and Xena are no longer on WGN?
retrosmart said:
Neither hasn't been seen on WGN in a number of years; Hercules runs a couple of times a week on The Hub, however.
Now go obsess about some other show...
retrosmart said:
Does WGN shares series with WLS, some of the shows I like, I mention?
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retrosmart said:
Only by coincidence, as Tribune owns WGN, and ABC/Disney own WLS. Double series can repeat within markets, but usually their contracts have some important non-compete clauses, such as seperation, not only in dayparts, but in sequence of the series. Same as being able to watch, for example "Frasier" on multiple cable stations, usually not at the same time, and usually not in the same era of the program. Cable, of course, is more complicated as to who is offering what within a city's main cable system.
Since I'm talking about 7 & 9, does the same goes with 32 & 34 in Chicago?
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