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 last-available frequency allocation=== In the early days of television, the majority of stations could be found on the [[VHF]] band; in North America, this currently represents just twelve possible channels and in large markets any suitable allocations in this range were mostly full by the early 1950s. Occasionally, a prospective broadcaster could obtain one of these coveted positions by acquiring an existing station or permit in an adjacent community - although in some cases this meant a move out-of-state. {|class="wikitable" |- !Broadcaster !City !Community of license !Comments |- ||[[WCTV]] 6 [[CBS]] ||[[Tallahassee, Florida|Tallahassee]] ||[[Thomasville, Georgia]] ||First broadcast in 1955 from a studio in Tallahassee, but was licensed to Thomasville using a transmitter in [[Metcalf, Georgia]]. The FCC had allocated only one VHF channel to Tallahassee, which was already in use by Florida State University's noncommercial [[WFSU-TV]] 11. [[Bainbridge, Georgia]]-licensed [[WTLH]] [[The CW|CW]] 49 also transmits from tiny Metcalf, a community on the state line; this compromise location attempts to reach both [[Valdosta, Georgia]] (45 mi) and Tallahassee (25 mi). Its callsign references TLH, IATA's [[IATA airport code|airport code]] for [[Tallahassee International Airport]]. |- ||[[WHYY-TV]] 12 [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] ||[[Philadelphia]] ||[[Wilmington, Delaware]] ||Originally licensed in 1957 as channel 35 Philadelphia. In an era where TV manufacturers were [[All Channels Act|not required to provide]] [[UHF]] tuners, few could receive the station. When [[WVUE (Delaware)|WVUE]] 12 Wilmington went off the air in 1958, WHYY applied to serve Wilmington as channel 12 was the nearest available VHF allocation. |- ||[[WNET]] 13 [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] ||[[New York City|New York]] ||[[Newark, New Jersey]] ||One of the victims of the [[September 11 attacks]]. WNET broadcast from a shared master antenna atop the World Trade Center. Its community of license remains at Newark because the only means to acquire scarce [[VHF]]-[[TV]] spectrum in New York City in 1961 was to purchase existing Newark independent WATV. An on-air identifying logo displays initially as "WNET Newark, New Jersey", then transitions to "WNET New York"; the station provides New Jersey local public-affairs coverage through its co-operated sister network for that state, [[NJTV]]. The studios are in New York City; the transmitters have moved back from the [[Empire State Building#Broadcast stations|Empire State Building]] to [[1 World Trade Center]], joining other New Jersey licensees including [[WWOR-TV]] 9 [[Secaucus, New Jersey|Secaucus]] and [[WNJU]] 47 [[Linden, New Jersey|Linden]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thebroadcastbridge.com/content/entry/8291/future-of-nyc-broadcast-tv-moving-to-1-wtc|title=Future of NYC Broadcast TV Moving to 1 WTC - The Broadcast Bridge - Connecting IT to Broadcast|first=The Broadcast|last=Bridge|date=April 10, 2017|website=www.thebroadcastbridge.com}}</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