Your Official Penguins Station?

[TheFugitive]

WPMY-TV, MyPittsburghTV, has just started billing itself as "Your Official Penguins Station".

Only problem with that statement is, NO Pittsburgh Penguins games are currently broadcast on
local over-the-air TV.  All of them, aside from NBC national games, are cablecast on ROOT Sports.

What MyPittsburghTV has done is to go out and sign a deal to air Saturday night games of the
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, the Pittsburgh Penguins' AHL minor league affiliate.

Last week they showed a game against Hershey, and this week they'll be taking on Binghamton.
(it's notable that the voiceover announcer on this station cannot seem to pronounce Wilkes Barre
OR Binghamton correctly)

The games are entertaining, but calling themselves Your Official Penguins Station is a bit of a bait-and-switch.  Wilkes-Barre is 270 miles away, so it's not like many Pittsburghers go to Baby Penguins games.

Though the Pittsburgh Penguins must be okay with it, as I believe they hold an ownership stake in the Wilkes-Barre team.

[mvcg66b3r]

Penguins is practically chickens.  ::)

[Hudsons81]

Sounds like another wonderful example of misleading advertising. :P

Also my 400th post

[TheFugitive]

Penguins is practically chickens.  ::)

oh, so you saw them last night in Dallas   ::)

[TheFugitive]

WPMY has changed call letters to WPNT. 

They are apparently dropping the MyPittsburgh TV tagline (though they will continue to carry
shows for that network).  They are reformatting the station with a focus on local sports programming.

They will continue to carry Wilkes Barre-Scranton Penguins games.  They are going to produce a package
of Friday night high-school football games from the WPIAL.  And they are going to carry a variety of college sports from the American Sports Network. And there is some talk that they may pick up the occasional Pittsburgh Penguins or Pirates game that gets bumped from ROOT Sports due to a conflict.

They are going to call this station "Twenty-Two, To The Point".  (for those of you who have never been to Pittsburgh, that triangle of land downtown where the Allegheny meets the Monongahela to form the Ohio is called "The Point").  And their virtual OTA channel number is 22.

[ynkeesfn82]

They are going to call this station "Twenty-Two, To The Point".  (for those of you who have never been to Pittsburgh, that triangle of land downtown where the Allegheny meets the Monongahela to form the Ohio is called "The Point").  And their virtual OTA channel number is 22.

Reminds me of Boston about 15 (or so) years ago. Channel 66 in Boston, Massachusetts was an affiliate of the Home Shopping Network. They briefly dropped The Home Shopping Network and became a General Entertainment Independent Station known as HUB 66. Boston is called The Hub. Not sure why. HUB 66 didn't last long as their parent company was sold to Univision and the station became a charter affiliate of Univision's second OTA Network Telefutura (now UniMas). Today Boston has an all sports radio station called "98.5 The Sports Hub".

[TheFugitive]

WPNT was once the call sign of a radio station here at 92.9 FM.
It had been KDKA-FM, which Westinghouse had to sell because they wanted to buy a station
in Houston, and the ownership limits were very strict at the time (circa 1980). Then it became WPNT.

Channel 22 originally had the call letters WPTT.  Later, after they dropped them, those also
went to a radio station on 1360 AM (formerly WIXZ, where Rush Limbaugh had his first
radio gig).  WPTT-TV can be seen in that scene in the movie Flashdance where Jennifer Beals is
watching television in her apartment (they used an actual newscast from WPTT at that time).

When 93.7 went to an all-sports format a few years ago, CBS restored the call letters KDKA-FM there.

So all the call letters eventually come back around.  WPTT was available, so no idea why channel 22 did not choose to go back to those.

[ynkeesfn82]

WPNT were the calls on AM 1600 in East Long Meadow, Massachusetts back in '99. Saga Broadcasting took the station which was a simulcast of Classic Rocker ROCK 102 and leased the station to Six Flags. The station was known as AM 1600 Six Flags Radio and played information about the park located in Agawam, Massachusetts on a continuous loop during day time hours. AM 1600 is a day time only station. Today they are WHNP and simulcast WHMP from Northampton, Mass. Six Flags was new back then. Previously it was Riverside Amusement Park.