Availability
See also: WPCH-TV#CanadaTBS is available on cable and satellite providers throughout the entire United States. Until October 1, 2007, the national TBS feed could not be viewed within its home media market in the Atlanta metropolitan area, due to the over-the-air presence of WTBS, which carried a nearly identical schedule, with the only differing programming being the required public affairs programming and E/I programming for children.
The operations of WTBS (channel 17) and TBS Superstation were separated in October 2007, with the over-the-air Atlanta station becoming WPCH-TV, a general entertainment independent station focused on the Atlanta area only. The national TBS feed became available to cable and satellite subscribers within channel 17's viewing area as a result.
TBS programming was previously made available to cable and satellite subscribers in Canada through the WTBS Atlanta feed. However, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission had only approved the Atlanta broadcast station signal to be carried on cable and satellite providers domestically across Canada, not the TBS cable feed. As a result, following the separation of TBS and WTBS/WPCH in 2007, Canadian cable and satellite subscribers received access to WPCH/Atlanta (branded as "Peachtree TV"), instead of TBS. Most of TBS's flagship programming, such as postseason baseball and original series such as Conan, are not broadcast on WPCH-TV, but is instead carried on other Canadian specialty channels.
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