UPN Affiliates on Ku-Band Satellite (1997)

[JosephHolloway1998]

I also forget to mention that PrimeTime 24 affiliate WSEE 35 (CBS - Erie) known as "SeeCBS on Satellite" (which replaced WRAL Raleigh in October that year) also carried UPN programming as a secondary affiliate (Good News, Sparks, Clueless, Moesha, Malcolm & Eddie, Star Trek: Voyager, UPN Movie Trailer, The Sentinel, Love Boat: The Next Wave, Hitz etc...).

 

[harshness]

I also forget to mention that PrimeTime 24 affiliate WSEE 35 (CBS - Erie) known as "SeeCBS on Satellite" (which replaced WRAL Raleigh in October that year) also carried UPN programming as a secondary affiliate (Good News, Sparks, Clueless, Moesha, Malcolm & Eddie, Star Trek: Voyager, UPN Movie Trailer, The Sentinel, Love Boat: The Next Wave, Hitz etc...).

According to the Wikipedia article on WSEE, those satcasts were carried on C-band.

Swing and a miss.

 

[JosephHolloway1998]

Well I'm still looking for which bird the Paramount Stations Group (PSG) used for their newsfeeds at the time, Chris-Craft/United Television used GSTAR4 (R4) as mentioned earlier in this thread.

 

[JosephHolloway1998]

In the mean time as I wait (finishing the videos of networks uploaded), I know KAYU 28 (FOX - Spokane) which was carried on Anik E2 (A2), carried UPN programming as a secondary affiliate before KSKN obtained the UPN affiliation later that year.

Upn Gets A Foothold In Spokane

In local TV, the big news of the fall season is that Spokane has acquired a new network affiliate, UPN-22. UPN stands for United Paramount Network, and it debuted in Spokane this week on KSKN-22. UPN, in its second season nationwide, hasn't made much of a splash yet, but then again it took...

www.spokesman.com

 

[JosephHolloway1998]

StarChoice didn't carry WSBK Boston as a superstation until the following year. Whiles I wait to find out which sat carried the Paramount Station Group (PSG) newsfeeds, I also want to point out that the Florida newsfeeds were carried on S3R Ku, transponder 24 (that included WTEV Jacksonville (now-CBS and currently WJAX-TV) (newscast produced by WAWS Fox30) and WTOG Tampa Bay/St. Petersburg (whose newscast discontinued in 1998)).

 

[JosephHolloway1998]

WUHF Rochester (FOX-R) which was on Anik E2 (via ExpressVu) carried UPN programming on a secondary basis before low-powered WBGT-LP launched the following year.

 

[JosephHolloway1998]

KTVU's newscasts from San Francisco were also being simulcast on KRVU-LP in Chico/Redding.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kuABOloaQ4