Service Electric Lehigh Valley (May 19, 2001)

[PrevueTalk]

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2 SECTV2
3 KYW-CBS Philadelphia
4 WPHL-WB Philadelphia
5 WTXF-Fox Philadelphia
6 WPVI-ABC Philadelphia
7 TBS Superstation
8 WFMZ Allentown
9 WWOR-UPN New York
10 WCAU-NBC Philadelphia
11 WPIX-WB New York
12 WLVT-PBS Allentown
13 WNYW-Fox New York
14 Lifetime
15 CNN
16 ESPN
17 USA Network
18 MTV
19 VH1
20 CMT
21 QVC
22 HBO Signature
23 HBO
24 HBO Plus
25 Cinemax
26 MoreMax
27 iN Demand
28 Disney Channel
29 Fox Family Channel
30 TNT
31 CNN Headline News
32 The Weather Channel
33 CNBC
34 Univision
35 A&E
36 Nickelodeon
37 Discovery Channel
38 AMC
39 WE: Women's Entertainment
40 The National Network
41 TV Land
42 Comedy Central
43 E!
44 Comcast Sportsnet
45 ESPN2
46 Cartoon Network
47 The History Channel
48 WGTW Philadelphia
49 TLC
50 TV Guide/Italian Channel
51 WBPH Bethlehem
52 Pennsylvania Cable Network
53 C-SPAN
56 Food Network
57 WPSG-UPN Philadelphia
58 EWTN
59 ESPN Classic
60 WNBC-NBC New York City
61 WPPX-PAX Wilmington/Philadelphia
62 WNEP-ABC Scranton
63 WTVE Reading
64 Sci-Fi Channel
65 WBRE-NBC Wilkes-Barre
66 The Golf Channel
67 Speedvision
68 FX
69 HGTV
70 MSNBC
71 Fox News Channel
72 TCM
73 Black Entertainment Television
74 Lehigh Valley AccuWeather Channel
75 International Channel
76 Goodlife TV
77 Game Show Network
78 Travel Channel
79 Toon Disney
80 ValueVision
84 Outdoor Life Network
85 Animal Planet
86 Outdoor Channel
87 Odyssey
88 C-SPAN 2
89 BBC America
92 Classified Ad Channel
93 Baby J
97 INSP
98 Home Shopping Network
101 Bravo
103 Ovation
105 Portuguese Channel
106 Style
109 Discovery Health
110 The Health Network
114 TV Guide Channel
116 HBO Latino
117 HBO Family
118 HBO
119 HBO Plus
120 HBO Signature
121 HBO Comedy
122 HBO Zone
123 Cinemax
124 Moremax
125 Actionmax
126 Thrillermax
127 Showtime
128 Showtime Extreme
129 Showtime Too
130 Showtime Beyond
131 Showtime 3
132 The Movie Channel
133 The Movie Channel Xtra
134 Flix
135 Sundance Channel
136 Starz!
137 Starz! Theater
138 Starz! Family
139 Black Starz!
140 Starz! Cinema
141 Encore
142 WAM!
143 Action
144 Love Stories
145 Mystery
146 True Stories
147 Westerns
155 Zee TV
156 The Filipino Channel
157 RAI Internazionale
201 Discovery Civilization
202 Discovery Health
203 Discovery People
204 Discovery Science
205 Discovery Kids
206 Discovery Home and Leisure
207 Discovery Wings
208 BBC America
209 Noggin
210 Nickelodeon GaS
211 Nick Too
212 MTV2
213 VH1 Soul
214 MTV S
215 VH1 Country
216 MTVX
217 VH1 Classic
220 NASA Select
218 Bravo
219 IFC
226 Playboy TV
227-256 iN Demand
301-345 Music Choice

 

[KML0224]

ABC and NBC carried from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, but no CBS or FOX? My guess is that ABC was significantly viewed. Not sure about their NBC station.

 

[IM42A]

Sometimes carriage of out-of-market network affiliates seems kind of arbitrary --- "well, we can only carry one station from Market A, and two stations from Market B, so let's flip a coin and see what we come up with". I don't know the particulars of the SWB market, which station has higher ratings for news and whatnot, but I do know that some stations are favored over others. To use one example, WKYT (CBS) from Lexington KY is favored on cable systems in northeastern Kentucky in a way that WLEX and WTVQ are not, and likewise, WBNS (CBS) from Columbus has long been the preferred station in the far southeastern counties of Ohio (Scioto, Gallia, and Lawrence until, for some reason, Ironton cable quit carrying any Ohio stations) that are in the Charleston-Huntington DMA.

 

[ftballfan]

S/WB FOX (WOLF) didn't sign on until 1985. Also, I think WNEP has been the dominant #1 in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre for years.

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

Gotta chuckle for ya here, football fan.

Hadda be 20 years ago when Scranton's WYOU Channel 22 wanted (or more likely *needed*) a news bureau in Pottsville. If I remember from then, they and perhaps the other WB/Scr TV stations were looking for a wee LPTV presence to legitimize the irinvasion officially.
WYOU opened this bureau at a ground-level room near the main Pottsville intersection of Centre and Market Streets. The rent had to've been less than a parking permit for the neighbourhood. As the cow flies from Scranton, that's a distance of 85 miles. Hence, the LPTV stuff, I guess.
But I never saw anyone inside the place. Their big sign was lit up, and they had their 'presence' in Pottsville, sure. But all I ever saw were six or seven color TVs and a few desks inside, presumedly tuned to Channel 22. No live people -- ever.