Channel 17 Digital TV Stations in the United States - Wkyc, Kpho-TV, Wsyr-TV, Wkcf, Wphl-TV, Wltx, Ksla, South Dakota Public Broadcasting (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: WKYC, KPHO-TV, WSYR-TV, WKCF, WPHL-TV, WLTX, KSLA, South Dakota Public Broadcasting, WEAR-TV, WNCN, KMTR, KMIZ, KVIQ, KQDS-TV, KTWO-TV, WYIN, WQCW, KBMY, WLAX, WVXF, WPXQ-TV, KDOR-TV, K17HI-D. Excerpt: WKYC, virtual channel 3 (digital channel 17), is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Cleveland, Ohio, owned by the Gannett Company. Its studio is located on the shores of Lake Erie, while its transmitter is located in Parma, Ohio. The station made its on-air debut on October 31, 1948, as WNBK on channel 4. It was the second station in Cleveland to sign on, eleven months after WEWS (channel 5), and was the fourth of NBC's five original owned-and-operated stations launched by the network, three weeks after WNBQ (now WMAQ-TV) in Chicago. WNBK was a sister station to WTAM radio (1100 AM), owned by NBC since 1930. Although there was no coaxial cable connection to New York City, AT&T had just installed a cable connection between WNBK, WNBQ, WSPD-TV (now WTVG) in Toledo, KSTP-TV in St. Paul, Minnesota and KSD-TV (now KSDK) in St. Louis, creating NBC's Midwest Network. WNBK became one of the originators of programming for the regional network, along with WNBQ. Two days after signing on, on November 2, 1948, WNBK transmitted its coverage of the Truman/Dewey election results to the NBC Midwest Network. On January 11, 1949, WNBK began carrying NBC's New York-originated programming live via a cable connection to Philadelphia. In 1952, as a result of the Federal Communications Commission's Sixth Report and Order, WNBK moved to channel 3, swapping frequencies with fellow NBC affiliate WLWC (now WCMH-TV) in Columbus in order to alleviate adjacent-channel interference with another NBC station, WWJ-TV (now WDIV) Channel 4 in Detroit. In 1956, NBC swapped WNBK and WTAM-AM-FM to Westinghouse Electric Corporation in return fo...