1947 TV Allocations Table

[Bill-in-CT]

found this at

http://members.aol.com/jeff99500/1947tvalloc.html

New England allocations included:

Boston - 2,4,7,9,13
Lowell-Lawrence-Haverhill - 6
Worcester - 5
Springfield-Holyoke - 3
Providence - 11
Hartford-New Britain - 8,10
New Haven - 6
Waterbury - 12

 

[TXengineer]

Wow that's pretty cool.
Thanks Bill.

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

What's most interesting is that no channel allocations were made for northern New England.

 

[Eli Polonsky]

> What's most interesting is that no channel allocations were
> made for northern New England.

Click the link and look at the entire list. It has 3 and 8 listed for Portland, ME. There's also a 12 listed for Waterbury, I assume that's Vermont, but it doesn't say.

 

[KML0224]

> Click the link and look at the entire list. It has 3 and 8
> listed for Portland, ME. There's also a 12 listed for
> Waterbury, I assume that's Vermont, but it doesn't say.
>

Probably Waterbury, CT. Today, they're using channel 12 for WTXX-DT (WB). Channel 12 was last being used by Connecticut Public Television as a translator station. However, this list is likely referring to the allocated table BEFORE the realignment in the early 1950s. Channel 6 of New Haven, CT (Connecticut's first TV station) became today's channel 8 (WNHC-TV, eventually becoming today's WTNH-TV).
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[Markxxx]

> Wow that's pretty cool.
> Thanks Bill.
>
Yeah this has been on the national board a lot

It is interesting to note how close the FCC thought the allocations could be.

Note Wilimington's Channel 7 and how Detroit and Cleveland overlap but are in reality way too close

Another interesting thing is to see the rank of the markets. Like Chicago being number 2, and Los Angeles which was number 3, but was the only city to wind up with all 7 VHF allocations in the city itself(as opposed to NYC which gave up Channel 13 to Newerk)

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[dougw9wi]

However, this list is likely referring to the allocated table BEFORE the realignment in the early 1950s. Channel 6 of New Haven, CT (Connecticut's first TV station) became

The 1952 realignment is on my website onhttp://www.w9wi.com/articles/1952.htm . The assignments look more familiar than the 1947 list but in New England, they're still very different from what we have today! (in some parts of the country there have been far fewer changes) In New England:CT:Bridgeport 43, 49, *71Hartford 3, 18, *24Meriden 65New Britain 30New Haven 8, 59New London 26, 81Norwich 57, *63Stamford-Norwalk 27Waterbury 53MA:Barnstable 52Boston *2, 4, 5, 7, 44, 50, 56Brockton 62Fall River 40, 46Greenfield 42Lawrence 38Lowell 32New Bedford 28, 34North Adams 15Northampton 36Pittsfield 64Springfield-Holyoke 55, 61Worcester 14, 20NH:Berlin 26Claremont 37Concord 27Durham *11Hanover *21Keene 45Laconia 43Littleton 24Manchester 9, 48Nashua 54Portsmouth 19Rochester 51RIrovidence 10, 12, 16, *22VT:Bennington 33Brattleboro 58Burlington *16, 22Montpelier 3, 40Newport 46Rutland 49St. Albans 34St. Johnsbury 30The * means the channel was reserved for non-commercial use.