Most network affiliates on a single cable system

[gr8oldies]

Last I knew the Celina OH system carried the big 3 from Dayton Ft Wayne Toledo and Columbus, Fox from Dayton and Ft Wayne, another NBC from Lima and possibly a third Fox

[M.J.]

If you subscribe to digital basic cable in London, Ontario you get two MNT affiliates - WUAB Cleveland and WNYO Buffalo. You only get WUAB with analog basic though.

[Scott Fybush]

Last I knew the Celina OH system carried the big 3 from Dayton Ft Wayne Toledo and Columbus, Fox from Dayton and Ft Wayne, another NBC from Lima and possibly a third Fox

No more - the Time Warner system there now has the big 4 from Fort Wayne, NBC from Lima, PBS from Bowling Green and the full Dayton lineup (including WBDT for CW and WRGT-45.2 for My). No Toledo or Columbus anymore.

[Tim L]

In the early 1970's Warner Cable of Canton, Ohio (Long before Time-Warner) Carried

3 Network Affiliates from Cleveland-3/5/8
3 from Youngstown-21/27/33
NBC and CBS from Wheeling/Steubenville (both secondary ABC)-7/9
ABC from Akron-49

Total:
3 NBC
3 ABC-2 secondary ABC besides
3 CBS

[ssetta]

Believe it or not, I think Comcast in Bristol County, MA carries two CW affiliates: WLVI-56 Boston and WLWC-28 Providence. I don't think they have a MyNetworkTV affiliate at all, since it's in the Providence/New Bedford DMA, but they carry 2 of all the other major networks (both Boston and Providence), as well as 3 PBS stations (2 from Boston and 1 from Providence).

[ansky212]

Cable systems in central NJ carry most of the NYC and Philly channels.  Not bad having market #1 and #5 on the same cable system.

[rch66]

Cable systems in central NJ carry most of the NYC and Philly channels.  Not bad having market #1 and #5 on the same cable system.

Mercer County gets all NY and all Philly, but only Philly HD since its Philly DMA.   Comcast in Ocean County has moved KYW 3 and WCAU 10 to digital only and carries all NY and NY HD.

In Carbon County, PA which is the Poconos area they get Scranton, and a mix of New York and Philadelphia, with all 3 Fox affiliates.

In Allentown, Service Electric carries ABC from Philly & Scranton, NBC from Philly and NY, and Fox from Philly and NY, WPIX, WWOR, only 1 CBS (KYW) though, the other Philly stations as its within DMA, but they do carry HD feeds of the out of market New York stations as well.

As far as getting 3 of one network (excluding PBS), its harder to find though.
Along w/ Carbon County getting 3 Fox stations,
Comcast in Frederick, MD carries 3 NBC stations:   WRC 4, WBAL 11 and WHAG 25.    I think OTA is possible to get WGAL 8 also.   They might as well throw it in the lineup as well.

[rch66]

Correction to the above post:

Comcast Princeton carries WCBS-DT, WNBC-DT, WNYW-DT and WABC-DT and not KYW-DT, WPVI-DT, WCAU-DT, WTXF-DT, even though they are in Philly DMA and must-carry all the crappy UHF stations from within the Philadelphia market.    Probably has to do with Comcast Princeton being formerly a Patriot Media which serviced more of Somerset County.

Comcast Trenton carries both New York and Philly HD, except WABCDT and WWORDT, and has surprisingly moved some New York stations off the analog (with exception of WABC), and WWOR isn't even listed on the lineup at all.   Very unusual but I suppose WPHL didn't want WWOR for MyNetwork TV exclusivity purposes but its unusual to drop a New York VHF in Central NJ, considering that WWOR (and WPIX) news at 10 is still unique in that regards over sorta newsless-WPSG and outsourced news from Ch10 for WPHL.    Also, WWOR is supposed to be NJ based, and a lot of Trenton folk commute to New York/Northern NJ via NJ Transit NEC line.

[Russell W.]

Troy, Ala. for many years had network stations from three markets on its cable -- Montgomery (local DMA), Dothan and Columbus (Ga.).  In the '70s and well into the '80s, Troy's cable had three each of CBS and ABC, and two NBCs (Dothan, then and now, doesn't have an NBC).

I believe Walterboro, S.C. in the present day still has three of each, from Charleston, Columbia and Savannah. 

I can see from a sports standpoint how multiple nets are a good thing, and I always liked having the 'extra' stations back when I lived in Troy due to occasional preemptions (i.e., WSFA-12 in Montgomery - NBC - has always aired the Billy Graham specials, so having WLTZ-38 in Columbus was handy), or when a station went off the air ... which happened to Montgomery's ABC affil during the Beatles "Anthology" TV special.  I was recording it, so I had to quickly (!) stop the recording, then switch to the Columbus, Ga. ABC station (WTVM-9) and resume taping.

--Russell

[poledo]

Troy would be a good candidate.  I've never seen any cable in the area, but my grandparents lived about 20 miles south out in BFE.  While at the house we would watch NBC from Montgomery, CBS from Dothan (CBS from Selma was off the air for years due to fire), and ABC from Columbus (it didn't matter that ABC WDHN 18 was about 20 miles away, it was on UHF).  Fox was on UHF, so it was never watched... except by me late at night.  We also happened to be in one of the few areas in Alabama that couldn't get a good signal from APT, so no PBS.

How common is it for a cable system to carry no out of market stations?  In Pensacola, FL we get all the locals (one each of every english network except ION, which never set up shop here) but we don't get APT on Florida cable systems (it is on Dish and OTA) and the Florida PBS station is carried on Alabama cable systems. 
It sure would be nice to get APT to get a choice of PBS stations.  Wonder why they don't ask for must carry in Florida?