Boston stations on cable in St John's,Newfoundland

[Scott Fybush]

On 6/29/2012 10:29 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote:

> BTW the WGN feed is the Chicago feed - NOT WGN America

Yup - the way the Canadian regs are written, the "superstations" they're 
authorized to import are the local feeds from each city, so they get 
Chicago WGN, and they still get Channel 17 from Atlanta even though it's 
now WPCH, "Peachtree TV," and has nothing to do with TBS cable.

>
> Radio wise - 2 Boston signals can be faintly heard in the afternoon -
> 850 and 1510 and at night they are like locals.
>
> 680 is there but fighting another signal - strongest AM signals
> overall are 850, 880, 1210 and 1510.   660 is fighting with a local
> CBC on 640.
>
> Oddly WBAL is getting wiped out by a sports station in either Ireland
> or the UK ( Talk Sport )

That's the 1089 kHz synchro network all across the UK. There's no 
medium-wave left in the Irish Republic.