Thanks for the info! I had no idea I had those channels! Looks like I can even get Alfred Hitchcock! What a treat!
It makes perfect sense given the demographics in this-country and digital TV.
In the early 1970s in bigger cities like Boston and NYC (IN NYS) they had three network channels a PBS achannel (Sesame Street) and a number of what they called syndicated channels: 2 in Boston and 3 in NYC
and they all played mostly 1960s and 1950s TV shows and scores of 1930s to 1950s movies included my favorite B horror and Sci-fi monster movies, filling every Saturday with about five monster type movies that one day
WPIX had Chiller and WNEW had Creature Feature AND WOR had Fright Night all on Saturdays, all competing.
And this this overlapped with the introduction of re-broadcast cable TV in the mid 1970s when it was legal for cable to just put up huge antenna and put it out on cable.