How high up was your highest local channel number?

[zman]

In Kansas City the highest channel was KSMO TV 62 pre transition.

In Peoria Illinois Before July 31st 1999 The highest full power channel was WTVP 47 PBS. On July 31st 1999 WAOE TV 59 signed on as a UPN (now MY Network affiliate) Making it the highest full power channel number in Peoria

 

[OhioMediaWatch]

2009-Present 61-Cleveland (WQHS)

Of course, if you want to go by non-virtual channel numbers, the current winner locally is WEAO/49 (RF 50).

WMFD/68 Mansfield is in the Cleveland market, and was the "leader" until shutting off its analog signal...it is now RF 12, though still virtual 68. As far as the "main" part of the market, it was 67 until it went all digital (and even then, its digital was and is on 47).

 

[Tim L]

2009-Present 61-Cleveland (WQHS)

Of course, if you want to go by non-virtual channel numbers, the current winner locally is WEAO/49 (RF 50).

WMFD/68 Mansfield is in the Cleveland market, and was the "leader" until shutting off its analog signal...it is now RF 12, though still virtual 68. As far as the "main" part of the market, it was 67 until it went all digital (and even then, its digital was and is on 47).

OMW:

I somehow misread the original posting as "Your Channel Number" since youve been born..so to speak..I forgot about 68 mostly because Ive never seen it myself more than once or twice..So from the beginning..

1947 WEWS-5
1949-July 1953 WXEL-9
July 1953-December 1967-WAKR 49

http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=178406.msg1555217#msg1555217

The rest already recounted on an earlier post..

 

[OhioMediaWatch]

Yeah, 68 was and is a non-starter for most of the Cleveland/Akron/Canton area, aside maybe from some folks in Western Stark County with good antennas. I believe 68 gets cable carriage in Wooster, and maybe even Massillon via Clear Picture sister system Massillon Cable. Of course, it is now in the Cleveland market local channel package on both major satellite services.

When 67 started, it was difficult to pick up even in Canton. I remember trying to get it at the Sears at Belden Village, where the TV section was right near the window from which you could SEE the WOAC tower on Fulton Road!

Just checked, and WMFD/68 is indeed on Clear Picture in Wooster (cable 11), but not on Massillon Cable.

 

[cwf1701]

in Detroit: WGPR/WWJ-62 (full Power)
W66BV-66 (low Power TBN-owned station)
CBEFT-78 (until 1982 relocated to 54)

 

[Bob1370]

Buffalo, NY, analog era (1948-2009);

1948-53; Ch. 4 (only game in town)
1953; Ch. 59 (WBES-TV lasted only a few months)
1955-58; Ch. 17 (WBUF)
1958-59; Ch. 7 (WKBW; Buffalo briefly an all-VHF town)
1959-70; Ch. 17 (WNED)
1970-79; Ch. 29 (WUTV)
1979-2009; Ch. 58 (lptv)

 

[pqgeorge]

Springfield - W69AQ (Channel 69), repeater for WRLP/32 Greenfield, MA (now deleted, 1978), WSBK-TV/38 Boston, MA (during sports programming), then WHLL/27 Worcester, MA. Now deleted. (This station, W69AQ, was the prototype for low-power TV with limited local origination during hours of operation).

Boston - WQTV (Channel 68) came to the air in 1979 as a part-time Subscription station (B.E.S.T. TV, StarCase and STAR TV). Now WBPX/DTV 32.

Providence - WSTG (Channel 64) signed-on in 1981. A return from the dead formerly as WNET-TV (Channel 16) back in 1956.

 

[crainbebo]

The highest channel up until around 2006 that I could get in Bothell was KWDK 56 (Daystar). From 2006-Jun. 12, 2009 it was KUNS 51 (Univision).

-crainbebo

 

[Mr. Mike]

In St. Louis, the highest channel number, in terms of full power stations, was WTVI-TV Channel 54, which at the time that it hit the airwaves in March 1953, was based in Belleville, Illinois. It still had the highest channel number in the area when it changed its call letters to KTVI-TV, and moved to UHF Channel 36 in 1955 and to studios in St. Louis, on the Missouri side of the Mississippi River. That ended when KTVI moved to its present position on VHF Channel 2 in 1957.

Other high channel numbers:

1947-1953: KSD-TV Channel 5 (for much of that time period it was the region's only television station, until Channel 54 began operations with of all things, an exhibition game between St. Louis' then-two major league baseball teams, the Cardinals and the soon-to-be-departing Browns, who would eventually move to Baltimore at the end of the 1953 season to become the Orioles)

1954-1959: KETC-TV Channel 9 (first educational station, now affiliated with PBS)

1959-1969: KPLR-TV Channel 11 (first independent station in area, now affiliated with CW)

1969-1988: KDNL-TV Channel 30 (first full-power UHF station in market, currently an ABC affiliate)

1988-now: WHSL/WRBU-TV Channel 46 (signed on as an HSN station, now a MyTV affiliate; highest full power station as of now)

early 1990s-mid 2000s: K58DH Channel 58 (low-power) (highest channel number of all St. Louis stations, since moved to Channel 7)

1998-now: KUMO-TV Channel 51 (low-power) (religious, highest low power station as of right now)

 

[bpatrick]

In the Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville market, the honor goes to St. Augustine's College low power TV station W68BK, channel 68, which operates as "WAUG-TV" on-air.

If you're just counting full-power TV, then WFPX, channel 62 in Fayetteville (though it was not--and still isn't seen in the northern half of the market -Raleigh and Durham).

I saw WRAZ-TV 50 mentioned earlier up. They actually signed on in 1995, not 1990, but were probably the highest analog channel seen in the northern part of the Raleigh-Durham market from '95 on.

I moved back to the Raleigh/Durham market in 1990; those dates given are when I lived in those markets and what the highest channels were at that time. I can't get Ch. 68, even though I live in Chatham County; DirecTV doesn't carry it or Fayetteville's 62. Some of the other places I mentioned: I believe 58 is the highest in Dallas/Ft. Worth now, and 49 in Norfolk. Back closer to home, 61 is the highest in Greensboro/High Point/Winston-Salem (also Chattanooga).

 

[rgseark2009]

Pine Bluff AR had a LPTV on channel 65 (KIPB-LP) but it went off the air in 2005 three days before it was scheduled to sign off because of a transmitter failure. Little Rock currently has one last remaining LPTV analog on channel 58 (KLRA-LP).

Central Arkansas' first local station was UHF KRTV channel 17 (April 4, 1953-March 31, 1954) but according to newspaper accounts of the time would be considered at LPTV by today's standards (21KW ERP on UHF) and was purchased and taken dark by KATV channel 7 then a Pine Bluff station in March 1954 (right before the debut of KARK channel 4).

From 1955-1983, the highest channel number in Little Rock was 11 (KTHV) until KLRT 16 signed on. Two years later (1986) channel 38 (KJTM, now KASN) PIne Bluff signed on. KYPX 42 (later KWBF, KARZ) was the highest FP analog in Little Rock/Pine Bluff but had limited coverage compared to KLRT. Ironically KARZ's current DTV signal (RF 44) actually has better coverage than the analog ever did.

Before analog full power ceased, I once DX'ed the Ion/Pax station in DFW on channel 68 during an intense tropo ducting event.