WSEE-TV
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WSEE-TV is the CBS-TV affiliate station based in Erie, Pennsylvania, USA. Owned by Lilly Broadcasting with its studio located at 1220 Peach St. in Erie, Pennsylvania. The station's signal covers Erie, Warren and Crawford counties. It also reaches Jamestown, New York, Ashtabula, Ohio, north to London, Ontario and Hamilton, Ontario and south to Clarion, Pennsylvania. It can also be seen on C-Band satellite (mainly for Caribbean and Latin American viewers) via Primetime 24 and digitally on Dish Network (for Erie market viewers only). It is under a local marketing agreement with NBC affiliate WICU-TV which is owned by the Montecito Broadcasting Group of which Lily Broadcasting holds family ties to. WSEE's transmitter is located in Summit Township, Pennsylvania. According to numerous FCC Filings WSEE is currently suffering poor financial performance and thus has asked for, and received, numerous extensions on its construction permit for Digital Channel 16. WSEE-TV "MAY" not begin broadcasting in Digital for some time. Estimates range anywhere from 12 to 28 months.
History
- 1954 - WSEE begins broadcasting as a CBS affiliate sharing ABC with WICU-TV.
- 1966 - WSEE becomes strictly a CBS affiliate when WJET-TV signed on and took ABC.
- 1995 - WSEE adds a secondary UPN affiliation.
- 2006 - WSEE moves UPN to one of its digital subchannels, UPN will be replaced with The CW in September 2006. (It should be noted that WSEE-TV has no Digital subchannel as WSEE has yet to begin construction on its Digital Channel 16.
Primetime 24
WSEE has been part of the Primetime 24 lineup since the late-1990s, when it replaced Raleigh's WRAL-TV due to that station's regular preemptions of CBS programming. The Primetime 24 service provides American network TV service to C-Band viewers in Latin America, the Caribbean, and in rural parts of the US where local signals are not available. WSEE's PT24 feed varies from the local Erie feed, in which local commercials are replaced with ads directed towards the Caribbean (especially direct response ads). Also, WSEE's local newscasts are replaced with infomercials, though there's a pre-taped, brief Caribbean weather forecast by WSEE's weather staff (often in tropical garb) at 11PM ET.
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| Broadcast television in the Erie market [(Nielsen DMA #142)] | ||
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WICU 12 (NBC) -
WJET 24 (ABC) -
WSEE 35 (CBS/UPN/The CW on DT.2) -
WQLN 54 (PBS) -
WFXP 66 (FOX)
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| Local cable television channels | ||
| WBEP (The WB) | ||
| See also: Broadcast television stations in the , , , , and Markets | ||
| WLYH 15 () - WSEE-DT 16.2 () - WPCW 19 () - WSWB 38 / WQMY 53 () - WPSG 57 () | |
| See also: , , , , , and Stations in Pennsylvania | |
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