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Comanche, TX (February 10, 1977)

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Bluenoser

from Comanche Chief via Newspapers.com

4 KDFW-CBS Dallas
5 KXAS-NBC Fort Worth
7 KLTV-ABC/NBC Tyler
8 WFAA-ABC Dallas
10 KXTX-CBN Dallas
11 KTVT Fort Worth
12 KXII-NBC/CBS Sherman/Denison
13 KERA-PBS Dallas
 
That's kind of a bizarre lineup for the location. Nothing from Austin, Waco, or even Wichita Falls? They are just as close as, or even closer than, Sherman or Tyler.
 
That's got to be a mistake. Neither KLTV nor KXII would have been available via microwave and it's too far for over the air. MAYBE Commerce, Texas rather than Comanche.
 
Bluenoser said:
The listing is for Commerce, but it did come from the Comanche Chief, the paper covered 4 counties.
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Also odd, since they're 200 miles and 7 counties apart, but some of the papers back then did weird things. Maybe the same TV listings publisher did both and sent all the listings to both cities.
 
That wouldn't be an improbable lineup for Commerce.

Newspaper TV listings can be quirky. The statewide edition of the Louisville Courier-Journal once printed listings for stations that could be received in any part of Kentucky, from Ashland to Paducah, and their Indiana edition did likewise for the area where the C-J circulated in that state. The Lexington Herald-Leader did something similar for their own TV magazine in the 1980s, but their naturally occurring coverage area was only pretty much everything east of a line drawn from roughly Frankfort to Harrodsburg and thence south to the Tennessee line, not the whole state.
 
Here's where things get weird...I checked it again, the supplement is from Commerce and covered Hunt, Fannen, Lamar, and Delta Counties. The cover shows it as a supplement to papers in Commerce, Cooper, and Wolfe City. Not sure how it ended up in Comanche, unless Newspapers.com got its cities confused...I once found a Tucson TV supplement listed under a Texas paper on the Gateway to Texas History site!
 
Bluenoser said:
Here's where things get weird...I checked it again, the supplement is from Commerce and covered Hunt, Fannen, Lamar, and Delta Counties. The cover shows it as a supplement to papers in Commerce, Cooper, and Wolfe City. Not sure how it ended up in Comanche, unless Newspapers.com got its cities confused...I once found a Tucson TV supplement listed under a Texas paper on the Gateway to Texas History site!
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Weirder things have happened. Someone probably typed COM and didn't notice that "Comanche" came up, so it got filed as Comanche evermore.
 
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