WBTS and WHDH

Rob Landry 011010001@interpring.com
Wed Jan 4 11:43:21 EST 2017


WSBK was at one point on the local cable system near Binghamton, NY, where 
my parents lived. Binghamton is a hotbed of Yankees fandom, as it used ot 
have a Yankees farm team (and now has a Mets farm team), but my mother was 
a diehard Red Sox fan and loved watching the games on WSBK.


Rob


On Wed, 4 Jan 2017, Ed Hennessy wrote:

> WSBK was carried before that at least in parts of New England. In 1976 they were carried into the New Haven area, along with WLVI. We got cable in February, '76 and both were available then. They were just wiring our neighborhood at the time. We got cable after our 6' antenna mast on the roof bent and the antenna crashed to the roof after ice loading. My dad, not wanting to climb up there in the snow and ice, figured the cable installation would be temporary until he could get up there and replace the antenna. He never replaced the antenna...
>
> Both stations got dropped in the late 1980s-early 1990s with syndicated exclusivity, as the blackouts became more common since, in addition to the New Haven-Hartford market stations, NYC stations were receivable and were also (at the time) "must carries." The loss of the Boston stations was not surprising, considering that at that time, WTNH and WFSB would require the cable company to feed their signals on the WABC/WCBS slots when network programming was on, but that's another story...
>
> Ed Hennessy
>
>
>
> On 01/04/17, Kevin Vahey<kvahey@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> WSBK became a mini-superstation in 1978 when a Syracuse based company
> (Eastern Microwave) started to relay the signal. Red Sox games being beamed
> into Manhattan was a major selling point for the then Paragon Cable. WSBK
> also got picked up in Canada because of hockey and is still available on
> most systems there today.
>


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