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superstation

[ soo-per-stey-shuhn ]

noun

  1. an independent television station whose signal is transmitted by satellite to subscribers on a cable system.


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The show “may be the last big hit sitcom to come off the networks ever,” Bill Burke, the former president of TBS Superstation, said in a 1998 article in The New York Times.

King County Executive Dow Constantine and Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell are endorsing this new superstation in Pioneer Square to complement Constantine’s vision, released March 7, to turn the bedraggled seat of local government into a high-rise civic campus.

The program was a ratings smash and spawned two sitcoms, notably “The New Leave It to Beaver” on Ted Turner’s superstation, WTBS, from 1986 to 1989.

Ted Turner, whose TBS superstation carried a competitive wrestling promotion, bought in and spent big, unburdened by the need to pretend he was seriously concerned with drug testing.

From Salon

Tribune, which then owned the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun and WGN superstation, sought Chapter 11 protection as ad revenue plummeted and more readers went online for news.

From Reuters

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