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WGN America Vs. Local
- Thread starter oldiesfan6479
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On neither of them? Wow. Last time I looked at Screener TV, and this has been a few months now, WGN9 was still on both. Wonder why they would drop WGN9 and keep the others? One could make an argument it should be the other way around.
ETA: Screener TV shows that Spectrum in Kenosha and Racine still carry the local feed, not WGN America. WTTW gone on both. I know these sites can be wrong, but Screener is generally very reliable. Are you in suburban Milwaukee and can you attest to the change in feeds first-hand?
ETA: Screener TV shows that Spectrum in Kenosha and Racine still carry the local feed, not WGN America. WTTW gone on both. I know these sites can be wrong, but Screener is generally very reliable. Are you in suburban Milwaukee and can you attest to the change in feeds first-hand?
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Here's something I just discovered, according to an archived site in 2006-07, The town of Peru, IL (Which is part of the Chicago TV DMA) in which their cable provider at the time (Insight Communications, Now Comcast) carried BOTH the local and national WGN on their lineup! Here's the link:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070203...cations_Peru/IL12413/Digital/2007-02-03_17:30
http://web.archive.org/web/20070203...cations_Peru/IL12413/Digital/2007-02-03_17:30
UPDATE: While I was looking through that same archived web site from 2006-07 earlier today, It just so happens that folks that there IS a cable system in the city of Chicago that carries both local and national WGN, It is Lamont Campus Televideo Illinois Institute of Technology. Here's the link:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070204...__of_T_Chicago/IL60707/Cable/2007-02-03_19:00
http://web.archive.org/web/20070204...__of_T_Chicago/IL60707/Cable/2007-02-03_19:00
Comcast in Chicago itself has carried both versions for a few years now, but I think that only happened after WGN America became a basic cable channel rather than the national feed of WGN9 in late 2014.
I don't think any non-Chicago DMA cable systems outside those areas of southeast Wisconsin between Milwaukee and Chicago and, of course, Canada, carry WGN9 anymore. I believe even the cable systems in the far southwest corner of Michigan that carry the other Chicago stations carry WGN America rather than WGN9.
I don't think any non-Chicago DMA cable systems outside those areas of southeast Wisconsin between Milwaukee and Chicago and, of course, Canada, carry WGN9 anymore. I believe even the cable systems in the far southwest corner of Michigan that carry the other Chicago stations carry WGN America rather than WGN9.
The local version of WGN was dropped from Spectrum cable in Kenosha a few years ago, the only Chicago channels are CBS,ABC,NBC and FOX and only in Standard Definition. I believe the Kenosha system was the last cable system in Wisconsin that carried WGN9.
Found this out a few weeks ago. Can't remember how I stumbled on it. Plenty of people in southeast Wisconsin seem unhappy about the decision and Spectrum has been less than forthcoming as to why ... especially considering that the other big Chicago stations remain on cable in that area. Doesn't make much sense when you think about it.
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