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what's with wktv?

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BobRoss

The on-screen digital cable programming listings say WKTV was supposed to follow SNL with the Bill Keeler Show from 1-2... then Seinfeld from 2 to 2:30 before going off the air.

When I turned it on at 1:50, they were already sitting on bars & tone. Before anyone guesses it was a Keeler stunt, it's 2:08 now and still no Seinfeld... still the All-Night SMPTE Marathon.
 
WKTV signing off? What a shocker! I didn't think they ran the Keeler Show or Seinfeld. I thought they were on the Nexstar stations. Must have changed since the last time I was in town.
When I was a kid I used to stay at my friend's camp in Old Forge. His father was out at the bars til the wee hours so we would stay up as late as we wanted to. So we would watch Johnny Carson to the end on WKTV off air. Something we never would have been able to do at home. We were shocked when Carson was over and there came a quick newscast over a slide durring the last break of the the Tonight Show. Back to Johnny for a quick good bye and then sign off. We went nuts! No, No, you can't sign off we need more television! They did have a very nice sign-off though. Better produced than anything else they ran on the station, Teamster logo and everything. Problem was since this was in the days before cable in Old Forge about the only thing else on was Pat Robertson on WTVH-5. There certainly wasn't going to be anything on WWNY-7 in Watertown if Utica had signed off.

If I remember right, WKTV signed off and never ran the Tomorrow show or Later with Bob Costas. This may have been because back in those days WKTV had an engineer (first ticket) at the transmitter and those guys had to sleep sometime. We could pick up (snowy) WSYR-3 for those shows.
 
Didn't I read somewhere that Time Warner viewers were supposed to get the straight NBC feed after WKTV leaves the air for the night? Or is that done with now, too?
 
therealjim12, good job dating yourself there... WSYR-3 changed to WSTM back in the early 80's. WIXT-9 took over the WSYR call letters in 2005.

azumanga -- yes that is true. Most nights, the cable feed switches to NBC's network feed. But I'm under the impression WKTV makes that switch at the station -- the transmitter goes off, but the NBC feed goes through the head-end feed to the cable company. If WKTV stays on bars and tone, then there's no NBC feed. This usually happens on weekends, when NBC probably isn't feeding anything overnight. But they were still supposed to show Keeler and Seinfeld before they went off, according to the schedule.
 
BobRoss said:
If WKTV stays on bars and tone, then there's no NBC feed. This usually happens on weekends, when NBC probably isn't feeding anything overnight.
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Don't they at least have a few old SNL reruns on Saturday nights, even?
 
therealjim12, good job dating yourself there... WSYR-3 changed to WSTM back in the early 80's. WIXT-9 took over the WSYR call letters in 2005.

Well duh, and the FM station in Remsen is now WOKR and WLFH is WIXT. But when I was 12 years old WSYR-TV was owned by Newhouse and was on Ch. 3.
I can't and won't be held responsible for what Clear Channel does.
 
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