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Paulk

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I was wondering if anyone knows if Adelphia Cable broadcasts FM radio stations. I know some companies still do. I live in West Scranton and all I seem to get is Rock 107 or WWDL all up and down the dial. This is true for all my receivers. I have digital music, from cable, but it is not the same as radio!!!
 
> all I seem to get is Rock 107 or WWDL all up and down the dial.

That should be enough reason to buy XM!
 
Radio on Cable...a new take

Out in the rural areas of NE PA many cable companies put radio from multiple markets on cable. Blue Ridge Cable, which has Tunkhannock (and much of Wyoming Co), Dushore, New Albany, and part of the back mountain does a great job of retransmitting stations. They put many Scranton and Binghamton stations on the cable. Here's an interesting twist: Cozy 103.9 is put on at the Dushore head-end (sounds perfect there); its then fed via fibre over to other head ends including Tunkhannock. Thus a person with cable FM in Tunkhannock can hear what broadcasts over 1460AM in stereo with very good quality. Its on 90.1 in Tunkhannock. By the way, it doesn't interfere with WVIA-FM, they're on yet another frequency on the cable system. We use this feed as the primary STL for 1460 (with a direct off-air backup). Up in Bradford and Tioga counties most of the cable systems rebroadcast many multiple market stations (in Mansfield you get Williamsport, Elmira, Binghamton and some Scranton for example). There was a time when cable companies would allow some of the NYC FM's into the cable. Since the DMX pay for service has cropped up cable companies now want to get paid for this service in the valley.

Kevin Fitz
 
> > all I seem to get is Rock 107 or WWDL all up and down the
> dial.
>
> That should be enough reason to buy XM!
>
There is a fascinating station that I get with Service Electric Cable.
On Channel 137, there are broadcasts of WALN, FM 92 out of the Berks
County area. There are the polkas but other music too. Sometimes they film
the broadcast and there's a guy who has this white cat roaming around the
studio. (For those of us who worked at WYZZ FM, this is an errie reminder
of times gone by). They have repeats of NBC Monitor on Friday nights, a
jazz show from 11pm to 12midnight fridays hosted by a decent looking blond
woman, and AP radio news on the hour. Unlike regular radio, it is very
intriguing to just tune in and see what they are running. Service Electric
has its own radio deal so local stations are not put up on the band to be
heard. At least not in the Wilkes Barre city area.
As for the music channels offered by the cable systems, while it is not radio,
the sheer selection of genres is incredible and the music choices are right on the mark.
Yonkstur
 
> I was wondering if anyone knows if Adelphia Cable broadcasts
> FM radio stations. I know some companies still do. I live
> in West Scranton and all I seem to get is Rock 107 or WWDL
> all up and down the dial. This is true for all my
> receivers. I have digital music, from cable, but it is not
> the same as radio!!!
>
Service electric carries Lehigh valley and Philadelphia stations. Howard stern fans, Rejoice!! LOL
 
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