Non-Kaiser/Field Stations with calls starting with "WKB" or have "KB" in them

[Davros2006]

Non-Kaiser/Field Stations with calls starting with "WKB" or have "KB" in them

I'm kinda surprised nobody (not even myself) thought of this sooner... Can you name off any stations that neither Kaiser nor Field Communications owned when they existed whereby the calls started with "WKB"?

For the record, when Kaiser existed, their stations included WKBD in Detroit, WKBG in Boston (later changed to its current WLVI calls), WKBF in Cleveland (went defunct in '75), WKBS in Philadelphia (went defunct in '83), and KBHK in San Francisco (by the time CBS bought it, assumed its current calls which I think are KBCW but double-check for me please). Kaiser used to have a station in L.A. but forgot those calls.

I can tell you one example of a non-Kaiser/Field station with WKB(insert 4th letter here) calls: WKBW in Buffalo, forever an ABC station since its 1958 launch.

And another thing, you can count any such KB stations if they start with "KB" or have "KB" anywhere in the set. Example: "??KB" or "?KB?".

 

[bpatrick]

Re: Non-Kaiser/Field Stations with calls starting with "WKB" or have "KB" in them

WKBN Youngstown, OH (CBS)
WKBT LaCrosse/Eau Claire, WI (CBS)
WBKB Alpena, MI (CBS)
KBAK Bakersfield, CA (CBS)
KBOI Boise, ID (CBS)
KBTV Beaumont, TX (Fox)
KBMT Beaumont, TX (ABC on 12.1; NBC on 12.2)
KBTX Bryan, TX (CBS)
KBYU Provo, UT (PBS)
KBJR Duluth, MN (NBC)

 

[wbhist]

Re: Non-Kaiser/Field Stations with calls starting with "WKB" or have "KB" in them

WKBN Youngstown, OH (CBS)
WKBT LaCrosse/Eau Claire, WI (CBS)
WBKB Alpena, MI (CBS)
KBAK Bakersfield, CA (CBS)
KBOI Boise, ID (CBS)
KBTV Beaumont, TX (Fox)
KBMT Beaumont, TX (ABC on 12.1; NBC on 12.2)
KBTX Bryan, TX (CBS)
KBYU Provo, UT (PBS)
KBJR Duluth, MN (NBC)

The KBTV calls were also once used by what is now KUSA (ABC) in Denver, CO. And the WBKB calls, of course, had a long history with Chicago TV, first with what later became WBBM-TV (CBS) and then moved over to the former WENR-TV (ABC) from 1953 to 1968, upon which it became the current WLS-TV.

There was one "WKB*" that was evidently forgotten in this list: WKBW Buffalo, NY (ABC).

 

[KeithE4]

Re: Non-Kaiser/Field Stations with calls starting with "WKB" or have "KB" in them

WBKB Alpena, MI (CBS)

And Chicago - 1943-53 on Channel 4 (now WBBM-TV Channel 2), and 1953-68 on Channel 7 (now WLS-TV).

 

[bpatrick]

Re: Non-Kaiser/Field Stations with calls starting with "WKB" or have "KB" in them

Mike, who started this thread, mentioned WKBW near the
bottom of his posting, so I saw no need to repeat it.

 

[wbhist]

Re: Non-Kaiser/Field Stations with calls starting with "WKB" or have "KB" in them

Mike, who started this thread, mentioned WKBW near the bottom of his posting, so I saw no need to repeat it.

Ah, must've missed that one.

 

[azumanga]

Re: Non-Kaiser/Field Stations with calls starting with "WKB" or have "KB" in them

KBHK in San Francisco (by the time CBS bought it, assumed its current calls which I think are KBCW but double-check for me please).

Yes it is.

Kaiser used to have a station in L.A. but forgot those calls.

It was KBSC, which became Telemundo station KVEA in the 1980s.

 

[Iowan]

Re: Non-Kaiser/Field Stations with calls starting with "WKB" or have "KB" in them

Eastern Iowa has KWKB, the CW station...

 

[RyanHoward]

Re: Non-Kaiser/Field Stations with calls starting with "WKB" or have "KB" in them

There was also the ill-fated KKBC-TV, Channel 34 in Lubbock, TX, which was on the air briefly in
the early 70's. Today, it is KJTV, the Fox affiliate for Lubbock.