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WWOR EMI Service
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<p>WWOR EMI Service was a <a href="/facts/New_York_City/YlyvFmVC">New York City</a>-based <a href="/facts/United_States/P0sCdLe5">American</a> <a href="/facts/Cable_television/GzXa4pbW">cable television</a> channel that operated as a <a href="/facts/Superstation/LBxLNmsM">superstation</a> feed of <a href="/facts/Secaucus,_New_Jersey/oel0KSWb">Secaucus, New Jersey</a>-licensed <a href="/facts/WWOR-TV/4mq8hVzY">WWOR-TV</a> (channel 9). The service was uplinked to satellite from <a href="/facts/Syracuse,_New_York/luD99ChN">Syracuse, New York</a>, by Eastern Microwave, Inc., which later sold the satellite distribution rights to the <a href="/facts/Advance_Publications/l0RcJwXG">Advance Entertainment Corporation</a> subsidiary of <a href="/facts/Advance_Publications/l0RcJwXG">Advance Publications</a>, a Syracuse-based company that also owned various print, broadcast and cable television properties. </p><p>In the <a href="/facts/New_York_metropolitan_area/vGvjnvyK">New York metropolitan area</a>, the superstation feed was not carried on local cable providers but was available to satellite subscribers. Two exceptions to this took place; once on February 26, 1993, after the <a href="/facts/World_Trade_Center_bombing/4kWK5Lrr">World Trade Center bombing</a>, 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 <a href="/facts/Long_Beach_Island/6poHyRaL">Long Beach Island</a> in <a href="/facts/Ocean_County,_New_Jersey/QD9UmLYG">Ocean County, New Jersey</a>. Although that area falls within the New York City market, the <a href="/facts/Xfinity/KG3j9krX">Comcast</a> 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. </p>