CBS AFFILS ON 2, 5 AND 13

[dustintv]

I found this in the 6/1/57 Kansas City Edition since the edition everyone beginning to agree on about since its so close:

6/1/57

          KANSAS CITY, MO.                    ST. JOSEPH, MO.

4 WDAF-TV (NBC)    31st & Summit  2 KFEQ-TV (CBS)    St. Joseph, Mo.
5 KCMO-TV (CBS)    125 E.31st St.          -----------------
9 KMBC-TV (ABC)  11th and Central              TOPEKA, KAN.
           
                                    13 WIBW-TV (CBS)      Topeka, Kansas

One final possibility is a case where perhaps one of the stations was a primary/secondary station for two different network or one of the stations today is no longer CBS.

 

[oburn]

kpho tv was actual a abc tv affliate 1949-1954 but showed mostly cbs shows there are several abc afflates that did that

 

[gr8oldies]

No answers here, but what determined whether TV Guide used the black TV tube thingy as opposed to the white outline?

 

[bpatrick]

White numbers on a black background meant that the
station was in the edition's primary coverage area;
black-on-white usually meant stations from other editions'
coverage areas that met the 15%-coverage criterion to
be included ("spillover").

There were exceptions: in the North Carolina edition
in the '70s, there were two stations on Channel 3,
two on 9, and two on 12. The larger-market stations
(3 and 9 in Charlotte, 12 in Winston-Salem) were white-
on-black; the smaller-market ones (3 in Wilmington, 9
in Greenville, 12 in New Bern) were black-on-white. (In
the '50s and '60s it had been the other way around, but
when TV Guide changed its inside typeface the Charlotte,
Triad, and Triangle channel numbers were hard to read,
hence the change in 1971.) In the Eastern Virginia edition,
Norfolk's 3 was white-on-black; Harrisonburg's, black-on-white,
mainly to distinguish the two.

The South Carolina edition used white-on-black for the
South Carolina (Columbia, Charleston, Florence) stations;
black-on-white for the Georgia (Augusta, Savannah) ones.
There was no "spillover" from other markets.

Central Florida is a tough one. My relatives in the Orlando
market got it, as we did in Tampa. Yet the Orlando stations
were black-on-white; in the Northern Florida (Jacksonville,
Gainesville) edition, Chs. 2, 6, and 9 were white-on-black.
Likewise, Atlanta and Chattanooga had the same edition until
1980, but I suppose since the Chattanooga stations cover such
a small part of North Georgia, it made sense to make them black-
on-white (Chattanooga and Knoxville were given a common edition
in 1980 but Chattanooga remained a "spillover" market in the Atlanta
edition.)

Some seem a little strange. In the Washington-Baltimore edition,
DC stations were black-on-white; Maryland stations (Baltimore,
Salisbury, Hagerstown) were white-on-black. You'd think it would
be the other way around, but it's still a way to distinguish coverage
areas.

So black-on-white was used generally to indicate "spillover" stations
or to distinguish stations by state or when there were two on the same
channel (the smaller one being black-on-white). That's the best I can
do; perhaps someone else has a further explanation.

 

[KML0224]

In the old Hartford/New Haven Edition, the NBC, ABC and PBS affiliates from Springfield, MA (WWLP, WGGB and WGBY, respectively) were listed as locals (black bullet with white numbers), while the VHF stations from New York City were listed as distant (white bullet with black numbers).

 

[azumanga]

Central Florida is a tough one. My relatives in the Orlando
market got it, as we did in Tampa. Yet the Orlando stations
were black-on-white...

After the split into the Tampa Bay, Sarasota and Orlando editions, the Orlando edition had white/black for the Orlando stations and black/white for the Tampa Bay stations. When WOGX of Ocala (part of the Orlando market) was added, it was a black/white, as was the Gainesville stations added later (WUFT and WCJB). And which station is your local station actually depends on where you live -- Polk and Highlands Counties, part of the Tampa Bay market, got the Orlando edition. Levy County, which is in the Gainesville market, also got Orlando.

...in the Northern Florida (Jacksonville, Gainesville) edition, Chs. 2, 6, and 9 were white-on-black.

The "6" in this case being the Orlando station -- that edition had two sixes, the other being WCTV Tallahassee, which was black/white.

Other notable exceptions that have gone against bullet standards:

Northern Wisconsin -- In this edition, it was the other way around: the local stations (Green Bay, Wausau, Madison, Eau Claire / La Crosse) were black/white, while Milwaukee stations were white/black.

Iowa -- was the same way, with Des Moines, Ottumwa and Cedar Rapids channels in black/white, while the out-of-market Quad Cities stations got white/black.

Montana -- the "problem child" in the TVG family. Different styles of bullets were used, irrespective of market. For example, the Billings stations were arranged in this matter:

KULR channel 8: white/black
KHMT channel 4: black/white
KSVI channel 6: the sides of the bullet was black, while the center was black/white

 

[bpatrick]

Sounds like Savannah stations in the South Georgia edition.
WSAV/3 and WJCL/22 were black-on-white in the center with
a black border; WTOC/11 was half black/white, half white/black.
But there were three stations on 11 in that edition: WFSU Tallahassee
was white on black; WXIA Atlanta was black on white.

Oddly, WTVY/4 and WDHN/18 Dothan, AL were black on white in the South Georgia
and Southern Alabama editions; you'd think it would be white on black in the Southern
Alabama edition (I believe, though, that they were white on black in the Gulf Coast
edition).

 

[jh]

Iowa -- was the same way, with Des Moines, Ottumwa and Cedar Rapids channels in black/white, while the out-of-market Quad Cities stations got white/black.

No, the Des Moiines/Ames market (and Ft. Dodge when it was still on the air) were black on white background. The others, including Quad Cities, were white on black background.
http://www.ellwanger.tv/collect/tvg/eds/i/ia.html

So in Iowa, it was the largest market that got black numbers on white background, not the out-of-market.