If I might “defend” WOR TV, they broadcast the New York Mets baseball games for many years before the unfortunate introduction of cable tv coverage of major league games. WOR broadcast most of the Mets’s games for free, much like the great WGN TV station in Chicago did with the Chicago Cubs for many years.
I remember one snowy and particularly lousy winter day in NYC back during the early 1980s, when WOR aired “House of Dark Shadows.” What enjoyment to see Barnabas, Willie, Julia, Maggie, et al, after shoveling what seemed liked tons of snow!
Of course, after WOR TV moved from Manhattan to beautiful Secaucus, NJ, not far from Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands, they also aired “The Howard Stern Show” from their new studio on the Meadowlands Parkway.
Residents of Secaucus were either thrilled or horrified to see Howard, Robin Quivers, Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling, Baba-Booey, Beetlejuice and the rest of the Stern gang in their fair city.
So, I, for one, have “fond” memories of the old WOR TV superstation.