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As a small but border community market, Watertown in has been behind in catching up with the bigger cities.
CBS 7 WWNY used to be the only station on the US side of the St Lawrence Valley and then there was
CBC 11 CKWS in Kingston, ONT which is even on cable down NY 12 in Utica. One of the owners of WLOT has passed on a decade ago while affiliated with UPN and his partner went to court but the station had gone dark and awaits a new
FCC licence as
NBC has to be brought in by
NBC 3 WSTM in Syracuse who may boost their signal but
myNetworkTV isn't even on
Time Warner Cable there yet (the carriage dispute the former owners had with them makes recent ones pale in comparison). Once these stations are on air, they also have to make sure
Dish Network (given what they just went through with myTVs sister station),
DirecTV, and
FiOS in the US and
Cogeco,
Vidéotron,
Bell TV,
Shaw Direct and
Rogers in Canada (eastern Ontario) will all be willing to carry them. They'd also have to see which programs in syndication haven't already been picked up by
CBS 7,
ABC 50, Fox 28, or the CW. A tower in Rutland, NY may still be standing but one will have to be closer to Landsdowne or Cornwall across the seaway. A property on county route 100 near Salmon Run Mall west of I-81 may still be vacant and could even hold a small studio yet something better in Jefferson County may be available. More as this develops. WLOT obviously stands for Watertown Lake Ontario Television or Watertown Lake Ontario Thousand Islands (small town so I know) while WBQZ refers to the WB which they were supposed to have but that was merged with UPN into the
CW already near 10th Mountain. QZ can mean Quick Zone! I'd get onetime resident Viggo Mortensen to film a station ID promo if he's willing to do so.
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