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Network stations that don't refer to their channel numbers

WWJ hasn't been branded as "CBS Detroit" since January 2008 - they've called themselves WWJ-TV since then although more recently it has been promoted as "WWJ-TV, CBS Detroit". For a number of years, WKBD was called UPN Detroit, but they now are called CW50.

WQLN (PBS) in Erie took the 54 out of their branding when the DTV transition took place, but they still have 54.1 mentioned in text in the ID. Also in that market, WSEE (CBS) got rid of the 35 in their branding back around 2005.
 
MarcB said:
Hartford/Springfield: WRDM-LP/WDMR-LP IDs as Telemundo Hartford-Springfield.

WUVN Hartford/WUNI Worcester ID as: Univision New England (English Language Translation)
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I was just in the Hartford area this weekend and have noticed what seems to be a recent fixation with calling everything "CT" this and "CT" that. Fox CT (formerly Fox 61), NBC Connecticut (a shame because the old logos with the 30 in them were attractive) and my personal favorite: The CT (WCCW) which probably has the weirdest, creepiest, UGLIEST logo I have ever seen.

To me, it's a shame because these newer brandings are less effective than the channel numbers. Someone said it above and it's very true: the numerical brand cuts through the clutter like nothing else. Calling something "the CT" puts it on the same mental level as 325 other channels on cable. Only with a more garish logo designed by someone who needs therapy....

One note on NBC Universal: it seems to depend on the market as they happily tout their top 3 network O&Os respectively as NBC 4 (WNBC), NBC 4 (KNBC) and NBC 5 (WMAQ).
 
In Charlotte, the Fox station calls itself Fox Charlotte. In nearby Greenville, SC (a market which includes Asheville, NC) the Fox station is Fox Carolina.

Also in Charlotte the My Network station, which was 55 analog and is 39 over the air, is My TV 12 because cable systems usually put it on 12. Since that's the only way I can get it, it's a useful number.

I have no need to call WFMY channel 2, even though it is "News 2". When setting up my converter box I couldn't get a signal from the station, but when I called the station I was told to try 51, and that worked. So I just turn to 51. On cable it's 22 since it's an out-of-market station.
 
nomadcowatbk said:
Does any station refer to their digital frequency (unless it's the same as their old analog frequency)?
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WLXI Greensboro, NC was Channel 61 (notice that's where they got their letters) but it's referred to as channel 43 now. Actually, since I don't watch I don't know what they call themselves. It was low-power and religious but they seem to be full-power now.
 
If you live in Charlotte, then I'm surprised WBTV doesn't exercise
its option to keep WFMY off cable altogether; when Florence/Myrtle
Beach got its own NBC affiliate, WMBF, WECT Wilmington and WIS
Columbia were kicked off Time Warner Cable (at least in Myrtle
Beach) and WMBF was put on WIS's channel: 10.

But then again I remember when cable viewers in Charlotte could
get WSPA, like WBTV a CBS affiliate, as well as WCCB and WGHP
when both were ABC affiliates.
 
wncc said:
For years, WCNC branded themselves as NBC 6, but with the DTV conversion, they converted back to 36. WMYT brands itself as MYTV12 rather than 55. WCCB brands themselves as Fox Charlotte, an WJZY is Charlotte's WJZY with no mention of their channel number.
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I see "CW 46" in the corner of the screen sometimes.
 
bpatrick said:
If you live in Charlotte, then I'm surprised WBTV doesn't exercise
its option to keep WFMY off cable altogether; when Florence/Myrtle
Beach got its own NBC affiliate, WMBF, WECT Wilmington and WIS
Columbia were kicked off Time Warner Cable and WMBF was put on
WIS's channel: 10.

But then again I remember when cable viewers in Charlotte could
get WSPA, like WBTV a CBS affiliate, as well as WCCB and WGHP
when both were ABC affiliates.
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I never said I live in Charlotte.
 
Regardless, I'm surprised WBTV allows WFMY on cable
in the Charlotte DMA, unless it's somewhere like Rowan
County, where the two stations have traditionally coexisted
(like WFMY and whatever happened to be the CBS affiliate
in Raleigh/Durham have in Chatham).
 
bpatrick said:
Regardless, I'm surprised WBTV allows WFMY on cable
in the Charlotte DMA, unless it's somewhere like Rowan
County, where the two stations have traditionally coexisted
(like WFMY and whatever happened to be the CBS affiliate
in Raleigh/Durham have in Chatham).
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Something like that.
 
bpatrick said:
...when Florence/Myrtle
Beach got its own NBC affiliate, WMBF, WECT Wilmington and WIS
Columbia were kicked off Time Warner Cable (at least in Myrtle
Beach) and WMBF was put on WIS's channel: 10.
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Of course all 3 are owned by Raycom now, so Raycom was sort of "consolidating" the market. IIRC, WIS in F/MB on cable was a slightly different feed from OTA/Columbia - I believe local ads and a drop-in during the newscast occurred (probably similar to what WILM in Wilmington does with WRAL's signal, albeit OTA.

J
 
Tim-In-Houston said:
There was a period after Nexstar acquired the station that they branded as "WTVW Newschannel 7" (with FOX is itty-bitty letters inside the leg of the 7). They quickly - and I mean within 6 or 8 months - went back to "Fox 7". At the time, I seem to recall rumors that Nexstar was interested in the market's CBS affiliate, WEVV-44. Which made me wonder (at the time) if they were thinking they could pull the CBS contract (for WTVW) by buying co-owning 44.
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We may see that logo resurface -- without the tiny FOX letters. FOX today announced it was moving its affiliation to a digital subchannel of WEVV. Evansville Courier & Press
 
vchimpanzee said:
wncc said:
For years, WCNC branded themselves as NBC 6, but with the DTV conversion, they converted back to 36. WMYT brands itself as MYTV12 rather than 55. WCCB brands themselves as Fox Charlotte, an WJZY is Charlotte's WJZY with no mention of their channel number.
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I see "CW 46" in the corner of the screen sometimes.
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Wait, that's not true any more.
 
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