...it just struck me that the call sign WJZ has appeared on the owned-and-operated stations of three different networks, NBC (radio only), ABC (radio and television) and CBS (television only). How many other call signs can make that claim?...
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Same call letters on O&Os of three or four networks?
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Ultimajock said:
I can't think of another. There aren't many that appeared on two network O&Os.
WABC (CBS radio & ABC radio/TV in New York - two entirely different stations and meanings of "ABC")
WCAU (CBS radio/TV & NBC TV in Philly)
WMAQ (NBC radio/TV & CBS radio in Chicago)
WENR (NBC radio & ABC radio/TV in Chicago)
KTTV (CBS TV (partial ownership) and Fox TV in Los Angeles)
...as far as two networks go, if you're counting Du Mont and Fox as separate networks, WTTG Washington would qualify too...
KML-224 said:
...but the question wasn't about affiliates, it was about network owned and operated stations. The only network that owned either KYW or WBZ is their current owner, CBS (unless you consider Group W to somehow be more than a glorified syndication arm of Westinghouse; I don't)...
Let us not forget WJAR-TV Providence. Same calls since its birth in 1949. Had WJAR radio until 1980 when the radio station was sold and became WHJJ.
Chow,
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Chow,
Gary Begin/Consultant
Identity Programming
Jackson, TN
www.garybegin.com
Re; Westinghouse;
The construction permit for WIND-TV- channel 20, Chicago, originally held by WIND Inc. (a partnership formed by The Chicago Daily News and the Ralph L. Atlass Family, who began WBBM (AM) and included WIND (AM) radio) was sold on November 8, 1956 to Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. for $5.3 million.
However Westinghouse chose not to do anything and offered the permit to Edward L. Ryerson of The Chicago Educational Television Association, who made it WXXW and began educational telecasts late in 1965. The station would be sold in 1977 to the Chicago Metropolitan Higher Education Council for $65,000. The station would reappear on channel 20 in 1982 as WYCC as an outlet for the City Colleges of Chicago
The construction permit for WIND-TV- channel 20, Chicago, originally held by WIND Inc. (a partnership formed by The Chicago Daily News and the Ralph L. Atlass Family, who began WBBM (AM) and included WIND (AM) radio) was sold on November 8, 1956 to Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. for $5.3 million.
However Westinghouse chose not to do anything and offered the permit to Edward L. Ryerson of The Chicago Educational Television Association, who made it WXXW and began educational telecasts late in 1965. The station would be sold in 1977 to the Chicago Metropolitan Higher Education Council for $65,000. The station would reappear on channel 20 in 1982 as WYCC as an outlet for the City Colleges of Chicago
IdentityProgramming said:
...WJAR-TV has only been owned by ONE network (NBC). Read the subject line next time...
KeithE4 said:
...there was also KFKX, which started out in Hastings, Nebraska, in 1923 (no relation to the college station there today with the same call sign). It was set up to relay some programs from KDKA mixed with local origination. In 1927, Westinghouse moved the station to Chicago, where it shared time on 570 kHz with KYW as a separate license. KFKX was eventually absorbed into KYW by the 1928 frequency reallocation, when KYW moved to 1020 kHz...
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