despite a power boost to 1.5 million watts, and an increased coverage area—expanded to 15 counties in northeastern pennsylvania—wnep-tv bounced back and forth in the ratings for most of the next two decades. it was never able to achieve any consistency because of the bitter rivalry between scranton and wilkes-barre. viewers in wilkes-barre thought it was a scranton station, while viewers in scranton thought it was a wilkes-barre station. it was also hobbled by being an affiliate of the smallest and weakest network of the time. indeed, wnep's launch made scranton/wilkes-barre the smallest market in pennsylvania with full service from all three networks.