City of license Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===The distant mountaintop antenna=== In hilly or mountainous regions, a city would often be built in a waterfront or lakeside location (such as [[Plattsburgh, New York|Plattsburgh]]-[[Burlington, Vermont|Burlington]], both on [[Lake Champlain]]) - lower ground which in turn would be surrounded by tall mountain peaks. The only reliable means to get the [[VHF]] television or radio signals over the mountains was to build a station atop one of the mountain peaks. This occasionally left stations with a distant mountaintop (or its nearest small crossroads) as the historical city of license, even though the audience was elsewhere. {|class="wikitable" |- !Broadcaster !City !Community of license !Comments |- ||[[WPTZ]] 5 [[NBC]] ||[[Plattsburgh, New York|Plattsburgh]] ||[[North Pole, New York]] ||WPTZ was originally licensed in 1954 to [[North Pole, New York]], the closest tiny crossroads to its [[mountain]]top transmitter site near [[Lake Placid, New York|Lake Placid]]/[[Adirondack State Park]]. The station then used "North Pole–Plattsburgh–[[Burlington, Vermont|Burlington]]" or even "[[Montreal]]" as part of its on-air identity but the community of license, once chosen, is not easily modified. The station moved its transmitter to [[Mount Mansfield]], Vermont, in the digital age to centralize its signal with the rest of the market's stations licensed east of [[Lake Champlain]], and in January 2011, the city of license was authorized to become Plattsburgh.<ref>[http://ftp.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Mass_Media/Notices/1999/da991235.txt FCC notice of proposed rule making] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930095411/http://ftp.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Mass_Media/Notices/1999/da991235.txt |date=September 30, 2007 }}, MM Docket No. 99-238, RM-9669 (North Pole and Plattsburgh, New York)</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db0105/DA-10-2443A1.pdf |access-date=February 23, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810230737/http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db0105/DA-10-2443A1.pdf |archive-date=August 10, 2011 }}</ref> In 2019, the station relocated their main studios to [[South Burlington, Vermont]], keeping a relocated and downsized news bureau and backup facility in Plattsburgh.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pressrepublican.com/news/local_news/wptz-nbc5-unveils-new-studio/article_f6ba89db-cd9d-5b26-92ed-06bb2efadf83.html|title=WPTZ NBC5 unveils new studio|website=Press-Republican|date=September 13, 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mynbc5.com/article/nbc5-continues-long-standing-commitment-to-north-country-announces-studio-in-new-york/32159967|title=NBC5 Continues Long-Standing Commitment to North Country, Announces Studio in New York|date=April 15, 2020|website=WPTZ}}</ref> |} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page