WWOR EMI Service was a New York City-based American cable television channel operating as a superstation feed of Secaucus, NJ-licensed WWOR-TV (channel 9), uplinked to satellite from Syracuse, New York by Eastern Microwave, Inc., who later sold the satellite distribution rights to Advance Entertainment Corporation, which was owned by Advance Publications, a Syracuse-based company that also owned various newspaper, broadcasting and cable properties.
In the New York metropolitan area, the superstation feed was not available on local cable systems, but was available to satellite viewers. The exception to this took place on February 26, 1993 after the World Trade Center bombing, when the local WWOR's transmitter was knocked out for the day. Cable companies in the metro New York area used the superstation feed as a substitute until the transmitter was back on.
Famous quotes containing the word service:
“You had to face your ends when young
‘Twas wine or women, or some curse
But never made a poorer song
That you might have a heavier purse,
Nor gave loud service to a cause
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—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)