Talk:WWNY-TV
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[edit] the only game in town?
From the 'coverage area' section: "For many years, WWNY's largest viewership was in Kingston, since for nearly 20 years it was the only station routinely available over-the-air other than the local CKWS-TV."
Um, no. While CIII-TV 2 signed on (as CKGN) in January 1974 (vs. 1954/55 for CKWS and WWNY), it was the last of the VHF stations to go on the air in the Kingston-Watertown area. There were already three stations (NBC 3, CBS 5 WHEN, ABC 9 WSYR) in Syracuse (which came in poorly, receivable only with a full-size outdoor antenna) and three local stations (CJOH-TV 6 CTV, WWNY 7, CKWS 11 CBC) in Kingston-Watertown. WPBS-TV (as WNPE) was likely the first UHF station in Kingston-Watertown (1971), followed several years later by an underpowered ABC repeater (of WUTR 20 Utica) on 50 (which has since become WWTI, a full-power local station). CBLFT 32 and CICA 38 are more recent additions (mid-1980's).
CJOH 6 was the last of the three CJOH VHF transmitters to go live (first was CJOH 13 Ottawa, then CJOH 8 Cornwall) but it does pre-date the 1974 addition of CKGN to this market by many years. Furthermore, once 2 Bancroft did go live, it was a hundred miles from Kingston-Watertown (Bancroft is an hour north of Belleville) and therefore no better a signal than the Syracuse, New York VHF locals. It might be worth checking when the third CJOH transmitter went on-air before designating WWNY and CKWS as the only game in town for nearly twenty years? They were first, but I'd suspect CJOH 6 has been around for longer than one may realise? --carlb 21:28, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
CJOH-6 went on the air in 1972. So from 1954-72 (18 years...the nearly 20 as stated in the article) CKWS and WWNY were the only reliable over the air signals in Kingston.
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