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WPIX missing from COX Meriden

MarcB

MarcB

For the past several days WPIX has been missing from COX Meriden. As I type this there is currently a message on Channel 22 on COX that says "WPIX is currently off air. We are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience." Over the weekend the message about WPIX being off the air was directing viewers to WCCT (on channel 11) and WTIC (on Channel 6) for the Saturday and Sunday NY METS games.

A co-worker of mine told me there is some kind of dispute between COX and COMCAST and COX was using some of COMCAST's equipment to pick up WPIX. - I don't know if that's true or not. It sounds a little far fetched to me. Although I know the cable company that served Niantic, Connecticut back in the mid to late 90s used DIRECTV to pick up the Home Shopping Network and Nutmeg TV a Public Access TV station in Farmington uses DISH NETWORK to pick up the Classic Arts Showcase.
 
Just thinking, with the alternate local CT channels, why WPIX (outside of the newscasts) is even on any Central CT cable systems. At one time during the Star Trek-Yankees years yes...but that was a long time ago.
 
What killed off WPIX-TV and the others is simple: Syndex, WB and UPN. Cable here in New Britain, CT hasn't had WPIX-TV since it was dropped on Sunday, July 1, 1990. It was replaced with in-market WHPX-TV (ION) channel 26 of New London (independent WTWS-TV at the time).
 
IIRC, WTWS carried Yankee games, via WPIX (the channel it replaced).

This might be a subject for a new thread, but suppose PAX/iON never existed: Anyone think WTWS would have survived as an independent?
 
Meriden is in New Haven county and New Haven County cable systems traditionally carry many of the NYC locals, so it's not surprising that WPIX is still carried on Cox Meriden.

WPIX is still carried in many other places outside the NYC area. Comcast in South Jersey (Philly area) still carries it on a digital tier.
 
New Haven like Trenton is not in the NYC DMA. However, both regions are still in the greater New York Combined Statistical area, if that means anything. They have a 1 commuter train ride into NYC although its a long commute. Given the makeup, likely it can mean NYC TV keeps carriage in New Haven like Trenton for awhile.

4 NYC channels (WNBC, WNYW, WWOR and WPIX) are carried in the Lehigh Valley without blackouts. That area gets a ABC from Scranton as well. I wonder why WCBS couldn't be used to supplement KYW. Although too many NY channels there could concern the Philly stations that NYC region will take over that region.

The Comcast in Southeast NJ (Atlantic City) carries WPIX but I think it is subject to syndex/blackouts. I'm surprised it is carried there still. Do the AC hotels offer it there? I can see it maybe important for NY vacationers in AC needing to know traffic/weather for the return back home.
 
@ DToTheJ: Yes, the old WTWS-TV channel 26 carried the New York Yankees games from WPIX-TV.

Go to any Trenton Thunder baseball game and they make it clear that they're in the Philadelphia/Wilmington DMA. One of their corporate sponsors is WPVI-TV (ABC) channel 6 of Philadelphia. An ad of theirs plays on the outfield scoreboard before most games. They also have a fixed ad in the concourse as well.

Likewise, it bugs me that Pike County, PA, where I-84 enters the state from New York, is still considered to be the fringe of the New York City market. Shouldn't they be in the (much closer) Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, PA market instead?
 
MarcB said:
Update 8/24/12:

New Message on Channel 22:

COX has decided to no longer carry WPIX Ch. 22 after losing access to the signal on Friday August 17th. Most CW and sports programming can be found on WCCT Ch. 11.
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So what was the issue? Was it really Cox using Comcast's equipment? Why couldn't Cox buy and use its own equipment to get the WPIX signal? Is the technology licensed exclusively to Comcast?
 
To the Cox customers:

That is nothing compared to Cablevision who let an agreement with Tribune go up in smoke. As a result, WPIX 11, WCCT 20 and Antenna TV (114) are no longer on.
 
RobertAnthony said:
To the Cox customers:

That is nothing compared to Cablevision who let an agreement with Tribune go up in smoke. As a result, WPIX 11, WCCT 20 and Antenna TV (114) are no longer on.
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Petty corporate politics. Almost makes me want to join an "occupy" protest. Almost.

I wonder how much of an audience WCCT had down there in Fairfield County where most of the Connecticut Cablevision homes are. For that matter, do cable viewers in NYC's Connecticut suburbs ever watch Hartford or New Haven newscasts (presuming that Cablevision carries the Hartford/New Haven network affils) or do they only watch NYC news?
 
CTListener said:
For that matter, do cable viewers in NYC's Connecticut suburbs ever watch Hartford or New Haven newscasts (presuming that Cablevision carries the Hartford/New Haven network affils) or do they only watch NYC news?
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My guess would be they mostly watch the NYC channels. Fairfield county usually associates a lot more with NYC than Hartford or New Haven (at least the southern half of the county). I used to know a guy that lived in Darien for over 20 years and he had never even been to Hartford in his life!
 
ansky212 said:
CTListener said:
For that matter, do cable viewers in NYC's Connecticut suburbs ever watch Hartford or New Haven newscasts (presuming that Cablevision carries the Hartford/New Haven network affils) or do they only watch NYC news?
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My guess would be they mostly watch the NYC channels. Fairfield county usually associates a lot more with NYC than Hartford or New Haven (at least the southern half of the county). I used to know a guy that lived in Darien for over 20 years and he had never even been to Hartford in his life!
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I'm sure there are plenty just like him. Just the sort of informed Connecticut voter we're depending on to decide whether Chris Murphy or Linda McMahon goes to the Senate. ::)
 
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