Re: NECN in Vermont

["Kevin Vahey" <k-vahey@attbi.com>]

I recall that the old Lake Champlain Cable refused to pick up WSBK for 
Red Sox fans so 22 started picking up most of the games but Yankees were 
popular on WPIX
22 also carried Bruins games until Montreal said Burlington was their 
territory


On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 6:57PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 18:37:14 -0500, "Kevin Vahey" <k-vahey@attbi.com> 
> said:
>
>>  Adelphia picked up NECN a few years ago
>
> And what a prime position it gets in the lineup, too!  I'll stand by
> my assertion that nobody up there watches it.  (I bet if they offered
> NewsWorld (domestic) it would get more viewers.)
>
> Interesting that the core broadcast setup has not changed
> significantly in quite a long time.  (The 3/22/5/33 arrangement dates
> back at least to Champlain Cablevision days.)
>
> My recollection of the lineup from 1990:
>
> 2 - CBFT
> 3 - WCAX
> 4 - WVNY
> 5 - WPTZ
> 6 - WETK
> 7 - TVGC/leased access (later swapped with 2)
> 8 - either local access or an ext-basic channel
> 9 - ESPN
> 10 - CBMT
> 11 - WPIX
> 12 - CFCF
> 13 - WCFE
> 14 - public access
> 17 - WTBS
>
> I don't think we ever got WWOR.  C-SPAN was down in the low end as
> well as The Weather Channel.  NESN was available as a premium service;
> I didn't know anyone who got or watched it.  SCNE was in there
> somewhere, too.
>
> The OTA broadcast lineup from 1988 looked like this:
>
> 2 - CBFT
> 3 - WCAX
> 5 - WPTZ
> 6 - CBMT
> 10 - CFTM
> 12 - CFCF
> 17 - CIVM
> 18 - WNPI
> (22- WVNY)
> (33- WETK)
> 35 - CFJP
> (57- WCFE)
>
> (Stations shown in parentheses were not copyable from our receiving
> location due to severe multipath -- so if it was on ABC in the 1980s,
> I probably never saw it, unless aired on CBC or CTV.)
>
> If we had lived on the other side of Mansfield, we probably would have
> had 7 and 9 from Sherbrooke (now joined by 11) and 8 from
> Mt. Washington.  None of the LPTVs existed at that time, and 44 was
> still an open allotment.
>
> -GAWollman