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Stations who's call letters contain reference to channel number

WSTE* (Channel 7 Ponce - San Juan, Puerto Rico)
WLII (Channel 11 Caguas - San Juan, Puerto Rico)

* - Seven is spanish is Siete hence STE
 
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WDIO Duluth, MN ABC 10(the IO looks like 10)
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Already covered that one, but thanks! WDIO's founder Frank Befera patterned the WDIO studio complex, with the studios and transmitter in the same building and the tower next to it, after a station whose building he apparently fell in love with in Honolulu.

Only one thing he overlooked: Duluth ain't Honolulu. Every spring thaw, Volkswagen-size chunks of ice fall from the tower into the parking lot. Both staff and visitors have to park away from the building as a station car shuttles them to and from the entrance. A few years ago, one such iceberg crashed thru the studio roof and crushed the news anchorman's desk and chair. Fortunately, the news wasn't on at the time, or they would've had a live-TV first...and last!
 
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"Jeopardy" had an interesting category.

The retiring CBS late-night host? 550.

The man who came up with the theory of evolution? 400.

The first pilot to cross the Atlantic? 150.
 
WYFF-TV 4, Greenville, SC ("Your Friend Four", an old slogan)
WCIV-TV 4, Charleston, SC
WXIX-TV 19, Cincinnati, OH
 
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Remember when TV channel numbers actually meant something, in the days before cable converter boxes made the channel number irrelevant?
 
In Northern California(Bay Area and Sacramento):
KTVU, ch. 2 = an approximation of 'TWO'
KVIE ch. 6 = Roman numeral for '6'(and the 'E' for 'Education', since it's a PBS/former NET station).
KXTV ch 10 and KTXL ch. 40: Sacramento loves Roman numerals?
KTZO ch 20 = The 'Z' represents a '2', short for 'TV 20'(station changed call letters to KOFY in the mid-80s).
 
Avid Listener said:
Remember when TV channel numbers actually meant something, in the days before cable converter boxes made the channel number irrelevant?
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some channels during the commercials will say their cable channel if its on the same ones in most areas
Minneapolis has KSTC 45 (which is not 5-2) and they use to say "cable 12" because most cable companies had it on 12

Duluth has a quirk probably due to the OTA ingress. WDIO 10/WIRT 13 (WIRT is the satellite station) they always say "channels 10 & 13"
In Duluth WDIO 10 is on cable 13 and in Hibbing (where WIRT 13 is) its on cable 10
 
The first San Francisco station that I can recall using its cable number in its branding(and legal ID) was then KBHK, circa 1983, "TV 44, cable 12"(later amended to 'Bay Area cable 12', since there were apparently some systems outside the nine counties that carried it on another channel). Eventually, it branded itself as "UPN 44, Digital 45, Bay Area Cable 12 on most systems." Even later, it was reduced to simplistic 'jingle' with one line, sung, '44, cable 12!' Now, t's 'The CW Bay Area', keeping with the current practice of not mentioning a channel number at all.

KTZO/KOFY ('TV 20, cable 13') and KICU ('TV 36, Cable 6') followed KBHK's lead.
 
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