Sister station

In

radio or television stations operated by the same company, either by direct ownership or through a management agreement.^[1]

Radio sister stations will often have different

television programs

between each other when local events require one station to interrupt its network feed.

Sister stations in separate (but often nearby) cities owned by the same company may or may not share a network affiliation. For example,

CBS Television Stations

. In addition, stations in different cities affiliated with the same network, but not sharing an ownership tie, may refer to each other informally as sister stations.

Sister networks or sister channels, in many cases, are cable or satellite channels which are launched to either broadcast series which either premiered on the main network but has been moved out of the higher-priority schedule (such as

Nicktoons) or broadcast to a wider audience than the main network (such as CNN International or Al Jazeera English

). However, in other cases, these cable or satellite channels may only share common ownership.

The establishment and proliferation of sister networks on cable, satellite and internet providers has become easier and more commercially profitable over the history of such media venues.

References

^ "Alternative Stations | iHeartMedia Stations | iHeartMedia". iheartmedia.azurewebsites.net. Retrieved 2021-07-07.

This article related to television terminology is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This article related to radio broadcasting is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[1] "Alternative Stations | iHeartMedia Stations | iHeartMedia". iheartmedia.azurewebsites.net. Retrieved 2021-07-07.

[1]

See also

References