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Retro: Pittsburgh/Ohio & Mahoning Valleys Mon, Jan 20, 1975

FreddyE1977 said:
WTAE also had the reputation of being the most aggressive station locally when it came to defending their
territorial rights. In the days before DirecTV and Dish offered local channels they would actually send guys
around to individual homes with signal meters to prove that WTAE could be received there and then petition
to have their national ABC feeds dropped.
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For many years it was said that the Washington DC stations had done more/less the same thing with viewers in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, the Eastern Pandhandle of West Virginia and Hagerstown, MD..in other words if you got THEIR signal NO WAY one could pick up the national feeds of the networks on either Direct TV and Dish Network because the DC stations really cared that much for that region. However the reality is..they don't if they did why does DC's WRC allow Hagerstown's WHAG to be NBC? Why did WTTG allow Martinsburg, WV's channel 60 for a breif time to be FOX? Why did WJLA allow Winchester, VA to have their own ABC? Nah once past Leesburg, VA and Frederick, MD..the DC stations may still have the viewers but from a business standpoint in terms of making money from that region....ah no.
 
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