Not sure where this thread belongs, but this is the closest thing I could find.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120502223103/http://svtvstations.webs.com/svtvstations.htm
This shows significantly viewed stations that were carried on various out-of-market cable systems as of 2010. Some interesting things I noted:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120502223103/http://svtvstations.webs.com/svtvstations.htm
This shows significantly viewed stations that were carried on various out-of-market cable systems as of 2010. Some interesting things I noted:
- Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina had a lot of overlap between official DMA markets and stations actually carried. The markets are not as much clear-cut as they kind of fade into one another. Rowan County (Salisbury) lists only WGHP-8 as SV, however, in point of fact, with a decent rooftop antenna you could get pretty much all of the Charlotte and Triad stations equally well. In the 1970s, if there had been such a thing as a dual-DMA county, Rowan would have been that county.
- Various counties in eastern West Virginia show SV for stations such as WXYZ Detroit and WSB Atlanta. That "WATE" has to be a typo for WTAE Pittsburgh. I'm pretty sure the Knoxville stations weren't up on satellite at that time.
- WYMT Hazard KY gets no love, it doesn't appear on the list at all, though I'm pretty sure their comprehensive news coverage bridging four DMAs in eastern Kentucky was pretty well-entrenched by then. When WKYT took them over, they completely recreated the entire news operation into a very high-quality clone of WKYT's Lexington operations (which I have actually visited), which remains to this day. There is, indeed, a de facto "Hazard DMA", but nobody wants to split the Lexington market in half, and take counties away from Knoxville, Tri-Cities, and especially Charleston-Huntington --- to invert the common phrase, an ebbing tide lowers all boats.