In the New York metropolitan area, the superstation feed was not carried on local cable providers but was available to satellite subscribers.
Two exceptions to this took place; once on February 26, 1993, after the World Trade Center bombing, when the local WWOR's transmitter was knocked out for the day.
Cable providers in the New York metro area used the superstation feed as a substitute until the transmitter returned to service.
In 1989, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) passed the "Syndication Exclusivity Rights rule" (or "SyndEx") into law.
On December 31, 1996, AEC discontinued the feed,[2] selling WWOR's former satellite transponder slot to Discovery Communications for the then six-month-old Animal Planet,[3] which Advance still presently owns in part.