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Muliple Channel Changes

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KeithE

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Not counting those changes resulting from the post-1952 allocations changes (such as WTMJ-TV Milwaukee moving from Channel 3 to 4, for example), what station(s) changed channels the most? I'm talking strictly about full-power analog stations here.

AFAIK, the record is one station using 3 different channels, set by WKAR/WFSB East Lansing, MI.

WKAR-TV East Lansing, MI
1954-1959: Channel 60
1959-1972: Channel 10 (as WMSB, shared with WILX-TV Jackson)
1972-now: Channel 23
 
WVUE with 5 (Re: Muliple Channel Changes)

> Not counting those changes resulting from the post-1952
> allocations changes (such as WTMJ-TV Milwaukee moving from
> Channel 3 to 4, for example), what station(s) changed
> channels the most? I'm talking strictly about full-power
> analog stations here.
>
> AFAIK, the record is one station using 3 different channels,
> set by WKAR/WFSB East Lansing, MI.
>
> WKAR-TV East Lansing, MI
> 1954-1959: Channel 60
> 1959-1972: Channel 10 (as WMSB, shared with WILX-TV
> Jackson)
> 1972-now: Channel 23
>

I believe WVUE New Orleans beats it. Just on the VHF side, WVUE has moved from channel 12 to channel 13 and then back to channel 12 due to interference with nearby WLOX 13 Biloxi. It then moved to channel 8, where it is today, in the 1970s when it swapped dial positions with WYES 8.

WVUE's predacessor was WJMR, which operated on channel 61 and then channel 20.

In all: 61->20->12->13->12->8

I think it must have been on channel 12 and 20 at the same time using 12 as an experimental facility. TV GUIDE listings from late 1957 for the Gulf Coast edition showed on its "Channels Listed" page:

3 WEAR-TV (ABC, CBS).................Mobile Highway, Pensacola, Florida
4 WWL-TV (CBS)..........................North Rampart St., New Orleans
5 WKRG-TV (CBS)......................162 St. Louis St., Mobile, Alabama
6 WDSU-TV (NBC)...................520 Royal St., New Orleans, Louisiana
7 WJDM-TV (ABC, CBS, NBC)............P.O. Box 428, Panama City, Florida
10 WALA-TV (NBC, ABC)................210 Government St., Mobile, Alabama
12 KK2XFW-TV 20 WJMR-TV (ABC)....................Jung Hotel, New Orleans
 
kk2xfw tv was a abc tv station in new orleans on air sept 1957 wjmr tv was also abc tv in new orleans on ch 12 formaly on ch20 ch 61
 
Check your call letters! WFSB is CBS channel 3 in Hartford!
 
i brought a tv guide gulf coast edition march 1957 it had wear 3 wkrg 5 wdsu 6 wjdm 7 wala 10 does anybody know when the first gulf coast edition came out
 
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