A tipster says WPLG was removed from Comcast cable in Boca Raton. I’d say probably in all of Palm Beach County too.
WSVN was the first to be removed from all cable systems in Palm Beach County in 2005 after Comcast took over Adelphia. Back then it was speculated WFLX complained too many people watched WSVN and it took away from the station’s already low ratings even when American Idol was on.
It probably wouldn’t be a stretch to say WSVN and WPLG were favored by Boca viewers. If I remember correctly in 1999 or 2000 then Adelphia cable removed WSVN from its channel lineup but had to put them back on after so many subscribers complained.
This time though both stations are permanently off. Of course anyone with an indoor or outdoor antenna can pick up all Miami stations all the way up to Palm Beach Gardens.
Uh…WPLG is still on my (Comcast) system. It was off-air for only a while last week (probably only for a day or two), but I checked a few minutes ago and it’s still on there. If WPBF compalins that WPLG is taking away its ratings, like WFLX did with WSVN, then 10 may suffer a fate similar to 7 here in Palm Beach.
i live in west palm beach wplg 10 is still on my cable too.i hope is not true that they wll take it off. i miss wsvn 7 beacause it better than that fox station in west palm beach they all show is rerun sitcoms and wflx fox 29 need its own news instead of sharing with wpec tv 12. our market is big enough ti have our own news on fox 29 i think its owner raycom media is cheap or they need to sell it maybe to newscorp i now they will but on there own news cast.keep wplg on and please but back on my33 in miss that channel they took itoff too in 2000 up here in west palm beach
if comcast do take off wplg channel 10 from it’s channel lineup will be on january 1st
As of today [12/31/07], WPLG is still on Comcast Channel 21 in West Palm Beach. But as they say, we’ll see what tomorrow brings.
Also, if WPBF’s news and station in general weren’t so crappy, then people would have no reason to turn to WPLG in the first place!