Talk:WTRF-TV

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[edit] Huh?

"WTRF will be starting a new Fox affiliate due to the demise of the FoxNet cable channel in September, 2006. It is not clear if this will be cable-only or also available via WTRF-DT 32. This is per users4.ev1.net/~chipk/CW.html/."

Can someone please explain this in English? I got something about TRF being some sort of FOX affiliate, but after that the words failed to make any bit of sense. I've never heard of the "FoxNet" cable channel in Wheeling. Maybe it was the last sentence that lost me. Maybe I'm just in need of sleep or something.

[edit] Pretty simple

With the new digital broadcasting (replacing the 50-year-old analog broadcasting), TV stations can broadcast more than one signal. WTOV is using it's second "channel" as a full-time weather channel. WTRF is using it's second as a FOX affiation. Most of the Prime-Time programming found on FOX53 from Pittsburgh can also be found on "FOX Ohio Valley". TV sets with digital tuners can receive this on channel 7-2. WTRF's regular programming can be found in a digital format on channel 7-1.

Does that clear things up?

DRA@1st.net

[edit] Secondary ABC affilliation

Didn't WTRF have a secondary ABC affilliation well into the 1980s? I remember for special events (Indy 500, for example), they would carry the ABC feed instead of the CBS feed? The date in the article of 1980 seems too early. Does anybody have a more exact date of when they completely dropped ABC as a secondary affilliate? Dmine45 (talk) 19:58, 17 January 2008 (UTC)