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I read the reason was also so stations would not try to pass off reruns as first runs.
If you recall this renaming basically stopped in the early 80s and before, and a lot of people still lived in areas that didn't have all three networks, or if they did, one of the channels (usually ABC before the 70s realign) didn't come in clear enough to be worth watching.
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