Obscure Trivia About OTA TV Broadcasting & TV Stations.

[Route66Fan]

Sometime back, I went onto the https://www.americanradiohistory.com website & looked at some of the Broadcasting & Cable Yearbooks & found out that, in the late 1980's, there was a application/construction permit for a PBS station in St. Joseph, MO with the callsign KMPT-TV on Ch. 22. The station was, apparently, supposed to be a satellite station of KCPT-TV Ch. 19 in nearby Kansas City, MO, due to the fact that the applicant of the KMPT-TV permittee was listed as "Public Television 19 Inc." (KCPT-TV's owner.). This TV station never came on the air & the application/construction permit was deleted a few years later.

Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook from 1987 with mention of KMPT-TV
https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1987/1987-BC-YB.pdf, Page 568.

Also, according to FCC records & the website http://kcradio.robzerwekh.com, Kansas City's CW affilate, KCWE-TV Ch. 29, was originally supposed to have the callsign KAIZ-TV, was originally supposed to be on Ch. 32, was also probably supposed to be an independent station & was also presumeably supposed to launch sometime in 1995 (My guess. Instead, the TV station launched as a WB affilate, with the callsign KCWB-TV, on Ch. 29, on Saturday, September 14, 1996.

History of KCWE-TV, mentioning original construction permit on Ch. 32:
http://kcradio.robzerwekh.com/29.html

FCC Call Sign History for KCWE-TV showing KAIZ-TV callsign:
https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=64444&Callsign=KCWE64444

I, also, remember reading, somewhere, in one of the Broadcasting & Cable Yearbooks from (I think.) the late 1980's, or early 1990's, that some of the TV stations in the Kansas City area, were carried on some translators in Northern Missouri, at around that time.

I am wondering what other obscure trivia about OTA TV Broadcasting & TV Stations there is that's waiting to be found?

 

[KeithE4]

There are too many analog stations with "unusual" histories (channel and/or COL changes, ownership, etc.) to list here, especially if they were on the air prior to 1970 or so. St. Louis and Milwaukee have colorful TV histories of their own.

Here is a site with histories of many early UHF stations, either on-site or via links: http://www.uhftelevision.com/

 

[ftballfan]

During the 1980s and early 1990s, as well as between 2004 and 2009, the Detroit area could receive stations in three languages over the air (English, French, and Spanish)

 

[Route66Fan]

I, also, remember reading, somewhere, in one of the Broadcasting & Cable Yearbooks from (I think.) the late 1980's, or early 1990's, that some of the TV stations in the Kansas City area, were carried on some translators in Northern Missouri, at around that time.

I would like to know if there is a database, or online publication, that would have a list of translators that were on the air back then.

 

[davideduardo]

I would like to know if there is a database, or online publication, that would have a list of translators that were on the air back then.

Look for the Broadcasting Yearbook, Telecasting Yearbook and Television Factbook sections of the link below.

 

[Route66Fan]

I found what I think is a prototype logo (& coverage map) for what was then KEKR-TV (Now KSMO-TV.), Ch. 62 in Kansas City, MO in an edition of the "VHF-UHF Digest" from February 1984. The logo & coverage map probably originally came from some promotional materials that the station put out before they came on the air on December 7, 1983.