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To replace the CW 28(which moved to WNAC 64.2) they imported WDCW 50 from Washington DC. Why DirecTV didn't bother to import the CW station either from Hartford or nearby Boston?
 
TVCOOL said:
To replace the CW 28(which moved to WNAC 64.2) they imported WDCW 50 from Washington DC. Why DirecTV didn't bother to import the CW station either from Hartford or nearby Boston?
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It may be temporary, until their uplink site in RI is modified for the channel change. WDCW is used as a national feed for markets that don't have a CW station. The uplink sites are not staffed, and a tech would have to visit it to make changes. I don't think they can substitute an out-of-market signal for a local one permanently.
 
What about Dish subscribers? Are they getting 64.2, or WPIX, or WLVI? WPIX used to be on their superstation package before they discontinued it in September 2013.
Here, when we lost KCWK 9 Walla Walla to their bankruptcy, Dish uplinked KTLA Los Angeles until they could uplink KIMA-DT2 (the new CW9). However I remember seeing KRCW Portland once as well in that 2008-09 interim, visiting family.
 
crainbebo said:
What about Dish subscribers? Are they getting 64.2, or WPIX, or WLVI? WPIX used to be on their superstation package before they discontinued it in September 2013.
Here, when we lost KCWK 9 Walla Walla to their bankruptcy, Dish uplinked KTLA Los Angeles until they could uplink KIMA-DT2 (the new CW9). However I remember seeing KRCW Portland once as well in that 2008-09 interim, visiting family.
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Not sure about Dish. I do know that in the Traverse City-Cadillac market, where the cable-only CW affiliate is owned by Charter, DirecTV imports WCWF from Green Bay (a sister station to TC-C's ABC and NBC affiliates) while Dish doesn't have CW at all AFAIK.
 
XETV was used as a CW channel in areas on the west coast that didn't have a local CW channel until KTLA replaced them.
 
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