WCKN Television

WCKN
*(cable only)*
Potsdam - Canton - Gouverneur, NY

Branding	WCKN Television
Channels	Analog: Cable 30 (NTSC)
Affiliations	Zilo Networks
Owner	Clarkson University in conjunction with Time Warner Cable
Founded	1970
Call letters' meaning	W ClarKsoN
Former callsigns	ICRN-TV
Website	http://www.wckn.com

WCKN Television or WCKN-TV is Clarkson University's student-run Public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable TV station on Time Warner Cable systems throughout the majority of St. Lawrence County, as well as portions of Franklin, Jefferson, and Lewis Counties in northern New York State.

WCKN was founded in 1970 as ICRN-TV, which stood for the "Inter-Collegiate Radio Network," an experimental television station that aired Clarkson hockey games and redistributed them to local cable systems in the Potsdam-Canton area. In the early 1980s, ICRN changed its name to WCKN when the call letters were assigned to the station by the Federal Communications Commission after an application was submitted to construct a low-power transmitter near the Clarkson University campus for over-the-air reception; the plan, however, never came to fruition and the transmitter was never constructed.

Today, programming on WCKN includes Clarkson men's and women's ECAC hockey games, a weekly local newscast, as well as several civic and community affairs shows. In addition, WCKN also airs syndicated programming from Zilo Networks, as well as the National Lampoon Network, and Army NewsWatch. WCKN can now be viewed on analog channel 30 in Time Warner's basic programming tier; the station still has yet to announce any plans for digital broadcasts.

Location

The WCKN studio is located in the lower level of Clarkson University's Student Center near the Forum. WCKN shares a lobby with Clarkson's radio station, WTSC

Television stations viewable in Northern New York State and the St. Lawrence Valley

Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television

Watertown / Carthage	WWNY (7.1 CBS, 7.2 Fox) WPBS (16.1 PBS, 16.2 Create, 16.3 World) WTKJ-LP 19 (GCN) WNYF-CD (28.1 Fox, 28.2 MeTV) WVNC-LD (45.1 NBC) WWTI (50.1 ABC, 50.2 The CW, 50.3 Laff, 50.4 Escape)

St. Lawrence County	WNPI (18.1 PBS, 18.2 Create, 18.3 World) WWNY-CD (28.1 Fox, 28.2 CBS)

Kingston/Belleville (see also Ontario TV)	CJOH-TV-6 (6 _Analog CTV) CKWS-DT (11.1 CTV/Global)

Adjacent locals	Ottawa / Cornwall, ON CBOT (4.1 CBC) CBOFT (9.1/9.2 Ici Radio-Canada) CJOH (13.1 / 8 _Analog CTV) Syracuse, New York WSTM (3.1 NBC, 3.2 The CW, 3.3 Comet) WTVH (5.1 CBS, 5.2 Grit) WSYR (9.1 ABC, 9.2 Me-TV, 9.3 Bounce TV, 9.4 Laff) WCNY (24.1 PBS, 24.2 Create, 24.3 World, 24.4 PBS Plus) WSYT (68.1 Fox, 68.2 The Country Network) Plattsburgh, New York WPTZ (5.1 NBC, 5.2 The CW, 5.3 Me-TV) WCFE (57.1 PBS, 57.2 MHz, 57.3 World)

Cable	Spectrum Sports Spectrum News Central New York YES MSG Network WCKN (Clarkson University)

Defunct	W20BA 20 (TBN) WLOT-LP 46 (UPN / A1, Watertown)

New York State television Albany/Schenectady Binghamton Buffalo Burlington/Plattsburgh Elmira New York City Rochester Syracuse Utica Watertown

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