Talk:WKTV

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[edit] Kingston, Ontario???

"WKTV enjoyed a monopoly in the Utica TV market until 1970 when WUTR signed on as an ABC affiliate. Later in the decade, original owner Kallet Television would sell WKTV to Harron Communications, owner of a chain of cable companies in the Northeast and also then-owner of WMTW in Portland, Maine. During this time, WKTV was carried on cable systems in areas as far-flung as Schenectady and Kingston, Ontario and for a time was carried on cable in Syracuse."

I'm in Kingston, and this looks like nonsense to me. I've never heard of WKTV and the only Utica station I've seen here was WUTR 20 (as 50, back when it was just a Watertown, New York repeater for 20; this is now WWTI). The original lineup on "cable tv kingston" during its construction in the mid-1970's (long before it was sold to Cablenet and eventually Cogeco) looked something like:

2 3 NBC WSYR, WSTM Syracuse
3 2 "Global" CIII Bancroft
4 4 CBC CBOT Ottawa-Hull
5 5 CBS WHEN-TV, WTVH Syracuse
6 6,8,13 CTV CJOH 6 Deseronto (13 Ottawa)
7 7 CBS WWNY-TV Watertown (originally multiple network affiliations, CBS as primary)
8 9 Radio-Canada CBOFT Ottawa-Hull
9 9 ABC WNYS, WIXT Syracuse
10 11 CBC CKWS-TV Kingston
11 -- (deliberately left vacant)
12 16 PBS WNPE Watertown/Norwood
13 -- Community-local programming, originally all monochrome except for automated time/weather text pattern.

NBC was being distributed as cable 2 in Kingston until that cable slot was given to TV Ontario (24 Ottawa) near the end of the 1970's, moving NBC3 Syracuse to Kingston cable 5, displacing CBS5 Syracuse's signal onto a cable midband (converter-required) channel. Nonetheless, the NBC signal in Kingston has always been from Syracuse. WKTV would've been co-channel to CIII when it signed on (as CKGN) in the mid-1970's; this may be part of the reason it never reached Kingston. Most of the other changes in the 2 - 13 channel range on the cable system merely replaced distant locals with home-DMA channels of the same network as they came on-air. --carlb (talk) 04:55, 5 April 2008 (UTC)