TW3 (Albany, New York)

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TW3
Country
News 10 Now
History
LaunchedOctober 2002
Closed2008
Links
Website[1]

TW3 was a

Capital District of New York and that area's suburbs including Saratoga County, the southern Adirondack region, the Mohawk Valley, and most of Berkshire County, Massachusetts
.

TW3 was formed in October 2002 as the improved successor to Time Warner 9, a similar station that was succeeded on the Time Warner lineup by sister station

Capital News 9 and taking over the channel 3 position which had been pay-per-view previews. On most of Time Warner's Albany-area systems, TW3 occupied the channel 3 position though there were several exceptions, namely former Adelphia systems or systems where an "actual" channel 3 (WCAX in Burlington, Vermont or WFSB in Hartford, Connecticut
) has that channel position. Those systems are:

It was never an over the air station, just a program source carried by Time Warner.

Programming

Much of TW3's programming was locally originated. The more notable series produced for the station were as follows:

TW3 also served as the Albany-area affiliate of the

Educational-access television
programming of which aired mostly during daytime hours though their Regents review specials often end up in primetime.

Sports coverage

TW3 produces and airs a sizeable slate of local sports coverage including high school athletics (football, basketball, baseball, and lacrosse), UAlbany and Siena athletics,

WXXA from New York City based channel WWOR-TV
.

Outside of the Albany area, some TW3 sports programming is simulcast or rebroadcast on

Time Warner Cable Sports
.

Preemptions

The station picks up several preempted programs from local broadcast stations that are unable to air them:

Time Warner 9

The predecessor to TW3, Time Warner 9, was on the air from 1997 (when Time Warner purchased the CVI and

Capital News 9
.

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