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The 'Retro Television Network' is Equity Media Holdings Corp's system of television stations primarily airing classic television programming from the 1950s through the 1980s. Schedules for some markets are customized to avoid conflicts for series with an existing station with a contract to air a program in that market [1].

Contents

Stations

Stations owned and/or Operated by Equity

Non-Equity Affiliates

Affiliates Coming Soon

RTN to Go National

External links

Stations

RTN is broadcast on the following affiliates:

Stations owned and/or Operated by Equity

★ KCBU - Salt Lake City, Utah

★ KFDF-CA - Fort Smith-Fayetteville, Arkansas ³

★ KDEV-LP - Denver, Colorado

★ KDEV - Cheyenne, Wyoming

★ KKYK-DT - Little Rock, Arkansas

★ KQUP - Spokane, Washington

★ KTUW - Scottsbluff, Nebraska

★ KTVC - Roseburg-Eugene, Oregon ³

★ KWCE-LP - Alexandria, Louisiana

★ KWWF - Waterloo-Iowa City-Dubuque- Cedar Rapids, Iowa ³

★ WBIF - Marianna, Florida ³

★ WBLU-LP - Lexington, Kentucky ⁴

★ WNGS - Buffalo, New York¹

★ WONS-LP - Olean, New York⁵

★ WPXS/KUMO-LP - Mount Vernon, Illinois / St. Louis, Missouri<sup>2

1</sup>Local marketing agreement with Granite Broadcasting. This allows Buffalo television station WKBW-TV to produce local programming for WNGS that does not fit into WKBW's schedule.

²Owned by Word of God Fellowship; managed by Equity Broadcasting.

³As of September 2006 after the shutdown of The WB and UPN television networks. (KFDF-CA was originally announced as MyNetworkTV, but sister stations KPBI-TV and KPBI-CA assumed that after KPBI-CA lost its Fox affiliation, so KFDF-CA joined RTN instead.)

⁴Also an affiliate of MyNetworkTV.

⁵Was formerly a dual Shop at Home/UATV affiliate. Switched to become a repeater/translator for WNGS-TV due to a lack of programming.

Non-Equity Affiliates

★ WSAV-TV - Savannah, Georgia (on DT2 with My Network TV; owned by Media General)

★ WBTW - Florence, South Carolina (on DT2 with My Network TV; owned by Media General)

★ K28FM - Yuma, Arizona (owned by Broadcast Group, Ltd.)

★ WRAZ - Raleigh, North Carolina (on DT2, owned by Capitol Broadcasting Company)

Affiliates Coming Soon

★ WPXI - Pittsburgh - WPXI will launch RTN on October 15th to celebrate the station's 50th anniversary (owned by Cox Television).

★ KRON - San Francisco - Will launch sometime in October on KRON-DT2 (owned by Young Broadcasting) [2]

★ WBAY - Green Bay - Will launch sometime in October on WBAY-DT3 (owned by Young) [3]

★ WTEN - Albany - Will launch sometime in October on WTEN-DT3 (owned by Young) [4]

RTN to Go National

According to a RTN/Equity Broadcasting press release, RTN planned to make the service available nationwide on July 7, 2007, following a deal that gives RTN access to the CBS Television Distribution library of classic programs. However, the company's website now states the launch will be in Fall 2007. Though a few new affiliates have been added, no major cable or satellite distribution deals have been struck.

External links

★ Official Site

★ Equity Broadcasting Corporate Site

★ List of Stations owned by Equity Broadcasting, includes RTN affiliates