WPBS-WATERTOWN STAYING ON ROGERS CABLE IN OTTAWA

[jiminCT]

Just in...Rogers reached an agreement to fibre in WPBS from Watertown and will keep it on the cable lineup in Ottawa. Good news.

 

[mimo]

I heard this on the radio this afterno0n on my 5 pm lunch break. This is go0d news and it lo0ks like everyone is happy. We can be smug here in Ottawa, tv viewers don't always win agains the giant cable companies.

 

[azumanga]

WQLN, too, will stay where they are:

http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Local/2009/07/31/10322201-sun.html

 

[mimo]

WQLN, too, will stay where they are:

http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Local/2009/07/31/10322201-sun.html

Excellent news! It lo0ks like Rogers has come to their senses. It would have been sad to see the economic impact on the staff of both stations had these 2 channels been removed for their respective cable dials.

 

[mjlarochelle]

According to a letter to the editor published in the Free Press this week, Rogers did not even bother to talk to WQLN about the supposed "reception issues" to try and come up with a solution. That would have saved them the PR nightmare they had.

I can't speak for WPBS-WNPI and Ottawa, but in all my years in London, I've never seen bad reception on WQLN. Yes, their transmitter was down for over a month last fall because of a storm and WNED from Buffalo had to be substituted on London cable, but there could be a failure in the fibre optic transmission too. I have seen signal failures from Detroit stations on cable in London that had nothing to do with the stations themselves.