This article is about the superstation feed of WWOR-TV available nationwide via cable and satellite from 1990 to 1996. For the local New York City market television station, see WWOR-TV.
World Trade Center bombing, when the local WWOR's transmitter was knocked out for the day. Cable providers in the New York metro area used the superstation feed as a substitute until the transmitter returned to service. The other was on Long Beach Island in Ocean County, New Jersey. Although that area falls within the New York City market, the Comcast
system serving that area carried WWOR EMI Service instead of the local feed, as they were unable to obtain a microwave link to be able to carry channel 9. Months after the end of the feed, that system began carrying the local feed, which by that point was uplinked to satellite.
as well as some holdover shows that had aired on the local New York feed before the SyndEx law's passage.
In mid-1996, EMI sold the satellite distribution rights to WWOR and Boston's WSBK-TV to Advance Entertainment Corporation. On December 31, 1996, AEC discontinued the feed,[2] selling WWOR's former satellite transponder slot to Discovery Communications for the then six-month-old Animal Planet,[3] which Advance still presently owns in part.