Re: NECN/Mt. Wash. connection??

[Roy Lawrence <lawrencemedia@yahoo.com>]

Rod,

New England Cable News has not until recently done any
real coverage in Maine. 90% of their stories come from
Massachusetts, Connecticut, or Rhode Island. Time
Warner Cable of Maine gave them the boot in 1994 off
the Cumberland County area systems, which was probably
for that very reason. They were just recently put back
on and suddenly New England Cable News is covering
Maine better. Hmmmmm ... 

As for the signal hope, I'm not sure either. But your
theory of the signal coming from Mt. Washington makes
sense.

Roy Lawrence


--- Rod O'Connor <rjoc@webtv.net> wrote:
> After trying several times since Sunday to tune into
> NECN here on our
> Adelphia system, and just getting color bars and
> tone, it dawned on me
> that NECN must have a few relays and hops between
> Boston and Adelphia's
> Bangor Headend. I'm sure one of them is via Mount
> Washington, which
> would explain why I haven't seen NECN since Sunday's
> fire.
> 
> I usually don't watch NECN that often since I don't
> recall ever seeing
> any stories from Central or DownEast Maine. The only
> thing I do like is
> their weather. In addition, the picture quality is
> often quite poor.
> Especially during the summer, the signal fades in
> and out when tropo
> skip gets going. Even on good days the picture
> quality is rather poor,
> very grainy and colors washed out.  Obviously Bangor
> must be the
> northern-most extent of it's reach.
> 
> Any readers know more about their distribution and
> feed routing?
> 
> Rod O'Connor
> Southwest Harbor, Maine 
> 


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