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SWPenn t1_ja3acjg wrote

How did people watch before cable when everything was free? I remember people watching on over the air TV and the Pirates games were always on the radio?

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gmus t1_ja3o0ue wrote

In the mid 70s they showed games on channel 11, then in late 70s they went to WPGH 53 which at the time was an independent UHF station. After WPGH become a charter Fox affiliate the penguins split time between Fox 53 and the regional cable sports network KBL. From 1990 to 1996 the Penguins split time between KBL and KDKA. In 1996-97 they showed some games on channel 22, and on Fox and KBL rebranded to Fox Sports Pittsburgh.

Since the beginning of the 1997 season, regionally televised games have not been available over-the-air

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Lord_oftheTrons t1_ja6e8nn wrote

There was some glorious time in there that I remember the Outdoor Life Network having hockey games, evolving into Versus, then NBCSN, then getting put down. That was a heck of a run too. My earliest memories of Pens games was KBL.

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a_waltz_for_debby t1_ja9gu4o wrote

That was WAAAAAAY later. That was after the '04 lockout they went to OLN/VS.

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poodog13 t1_ja3me8d wrote

There were only a limited number of games televised at that time.

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Frosty_Mycologist_53 t1_ja3er29 wrote

When I was a little one in the early 90’s (before we had cable) I remember watching pens games on broadcast/ air waves.

Tube tv’s and standard definition… it was awful.

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