Cable, Telco, and Satellite Carriage
Outside of the Philadelphia DMA in central New Jersey, KYW-TV has been carried in southern Middlesex and Monmouth Counties since December 2007 on Comcast of Central New Jersey Digital Cable channel 256 in the Middlesex County municipalities of Plainsboro, South Brunswick, Monroe, Cranbury, Jamesburg, Helmetta, Spotswood, and East Brunswick as well as Monmouth County's borough of Roosevelt. The New York DMA section of Comcast of Central New Jersey Including the aforementioned Middlesex County municipalities as well as Roosevelt then part of Storer Cable had previously carried KYW-TV then an NBC affiliate owned by Group W/Westinghouse on Channel 3 before moving to it Channel 37 in the late 1980s where it remained until 1993. This came to an end when NBC O&O WNBC requested that southern Middlesex County the part of the Storer Cable system stop carrying a second NBC affiliate in the New York DMA. KYW-TV was removed from the Middlesex County part of the Storer/Comcast of Central New Jersey I system at midnight September 1, 1993. Interestingly after the affiliation and ownership swap on September 10, 1995 WNBC did not object to their now NBC co-owned sister station WCAU continuing to be carried in southern Middlesex County on Comcast then Channel 39, though Comcast did not restore the now CBS KYW to the system for another twelve years. KYW is available to Comcast Cable customers in Ocean County also on channel 256. Comcast added KYW HD to its lineups in Ocean and Southern Middlesex counties including the borough of Roosevelt in Monmouth County, and its Lambertville area system in Hunterdon County on August 22, 2012 as Channel 903. It is not available to Cablevision customers in Lakewood, Seaside Heights and southern Monmouth County, even though Cablevision carries other Philadelphia stations on these systems.
Cablevision (previously Harte-Hanks Cable and Monmouth Cablevision) in the Asbury Park area of Monmouth County carried KYW-TV until September 10, 1995. WCAU replaced KYW on that system after the network switch. Verizon FiOS may have at one time carried KYW in South Brunswick Township, Middlesex County. But if it was it now appears to have been removed from the FiOS South Brunswick lineup. VerizonFiOS carries KYW in Upper Freehold Township, Monmouth County while the rest of the county gets only NY stations on FiOS except portions of southern Howell Township gets WPVI from the Ocean County feed.
DirecTV and Dish Network do not carry any Philadelphia stations in any area outside the Philadelphia market.
In New Jersey, KYW (and the majority of Philadelphia stations) were carried in more places in central and northern New Jersey during the CATV era of the 1970s and 1980s. Particularly Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Warren and parts of Sussex counties had KYW on the lineup. Northern and portions of central Middlesex County with the exception of South Plainfield never received any other Philadelphia station except WPHL and WTAF (today's WTXF), which have been removed since the late 1980s. Northeast Monmouth County Comcast Subscribers (Eatontown) once had KYW and the other Philadelphia stations on cable as well.
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