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Stations next door, across the street or around the block from other stations
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In Philadelphia, WPVI (6ABC) is across the street from WCAU (NBC10) on City Ave. WPVI is in the city and WCAU is right outside the city. They've been across the street from each other for a long time but, this is going to change when WCAU moves into the 2nd Comcast tower to be built in Philly. Also, co-owned KYW (CBS3) and WPSG (CW57) are located together.
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WALA-TV and WKRG-TV in Mobile, Alabama used to operate fairly close to each other in its downtown area with only five streets between them (WKRG-TV was located on Saint Louis Street from 1955 until 1981; WALA-TV was located on Government Street from 1953 until 2002). WALA-TV's former building is still located in the area (it's a medical clinic now) while WKRG-TV's former building has been gone since sometime after the year 2000.
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Indianapolis has four station facilities within a one mile stretch of North Meridian Street. WTHR / 13 (NBC) in the 1000 block. WRTV / 6 (ABC) in the 1300 block of North Meridian. WFYI / 20 (PBS) in the 1600 block. WISH / 8 (CBS) in the 1900 block. "MyNetworkTV" affiliate WNDY / 23 is co-owned with WISH and co-located at 1900 North Meridian. Then, add Telemundo WDNI-CD / 19 sitting just south of WTHR on Meridian with a St. Joseph Street address and WALV-CD / 46 co-owned and co-located with WTHR.
Historically, just for fun, prior to 2002 (IIRC) WXIN / 59 (Fox) was located in the 1400 block of North Meridian. That location had also served as studios for both WISH and WFYI. Prior to the move to the 1600 block, WFYI was also located in the old WTHR / WLWI studios that sits catacorner to WRTV at 14th Street and North Meridian.
Oh yeah…the WISH facility also functions as a master control hub facility for TV stations in Fort Wayne, Lafayette, Terre Haute, Grand Rapids, Dayton, Youngstown and Green Bay.
Did I leave anyone out?
Historically, just for fun, prior to 2002 (IIRC) WXIN / 59 (Fox) was located in the 1400 block of North Meridian. That location had also served as studios for both WISH and WFYI. Prior to the move to the 1600 block, WFYI was also located in the old WTHR / WLWI studios that sits catacorner to WRTV at 14th Street and North Meridian.
Oh yeah…the WISH facility also functions as a master control hub facility for TV stations in Fort Wayne, Lafayette, Terre Haute, Grand Rapids, Dayton, Youngstown and Green Bay.
Did I leave anyone out?
While it's no longer the case, Hartford's CBS and FOX stations were only blocks from each other. Channel 61 (FOX) was in the so-called "Stilts Building" at One Financial Plaza by Main and Church Streets while Channel 3 (CBS) was on Constitution Plaza, near the west terminus of CT Route 2. That ended a good 5 years ago, if not more. Today, channel 61 is co-located with The Hartford Courant in their Broad Street building, adjacent to I-84, while channel 3 is now to the south on Capitol Boulevard in Rocky Hill, exit 23 from I-91.
In Birmingham, WBRC and WVTM are next door to each other atop Red Mountain. In Atlanta, WSB and WXIA are pretty close if not next to each other on West Peachtree St.
At one time, all four main TV stations in DC were within a few blocks of each other, on upper Wisconsin Avenue NW. A lot of towers still stand up on that hill, but the real estate has become pretty pricy, so a few have moved. WJLA is actually across the river in Arlington, where employees don't have to be in the union. WUSA is still at 4100 Wisconsin, and WTTG is a few blocks up the street at 5151. NBC is looking to sell it's historic huge campus on Nebraska Avenue. That land could easily be turned into dozens of expensive McMansions. At one time, I'm told that area was all farmland. Not any more.
At one time, the corporate offices of ABC, NBC, and CBS were all within blocks of each other along Avenue of the Americas. ABC was in a rented tower at 1330, CBS built Black Rock on West 52nd Street, and NBC's palatial estate is in the grand Rockefeller Center. Fox is across the Avenue from NBC. CNN was nearby in the Time-Life Building until they moved to the Time Warner Center on Columbus Circle. That's actually not far from ABC's Broadcast Center on Central Park West.
At one time, the corporate offices of ABC, NBC, and CBS were all within blocks of each other along Avenue of the Americas. ABC was in a rented tower at 1330, CBS built Black Rock on West 52nd Street, and NBC's palatial estate is in the grand Rockefeller Center. Fox is across the Avenue from NBC. CNN was nearby in the Time-Life Building until they moved to the Time Warner Center on Columbus Circle. That's actually not far from ABC's Broadcast Center on Central Park West.
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Most of the Oklahoma City TV stations--and their towers--are located very close to one another on the northeastern side of the city, and Albuquerque NBC affiliate KOB is right across the street from CBS/Fox duopoly KRQE and KASA.
In the Raleigh-Durham market, the two largest cross-town competitors, Raleigh CBS affiliate WRAL-TV and Durham-based ABC O&O WTVD are 20 miles apart, though Media General's NBC affiliate WNCN and Sinclair CW/MyNet duopoly WLFL/WRDC are a few blocks away from each other in northwest Raleigh off I-440 (on Highwood Blvd, where the Sinclair stations are located, nearly all of the commercial radio clusters in Raleigh/Durham save for Radio One have studios). The "main studios" (really just their master control and sales) of Fox affiliate WRAZ, which is co-owned with WRAL-TV, was until recently a few blocks from WTVD's downtown Durham studios, but is now located at the WRAL studios in western Raleigh.
In the Raleigh-Durham market, the two largest cross-town competitors, Raleigh CBS affiliate WRAL-TV and Durham-based ABC O&O WTVD are 20 miles apart, though Media General's NBC affiliate WNCN and Sinclair CW/MyNet duopoly WLFL/WRDC are a few blocks away from each other in northwest Raleigh off I-440 (on Highwood Blvd, where the Sinclair stations are located, nearly all of the commercial radio clusters in Raleigh/Durham save for Radio One have studios). The "main studios" (really just their master control and sales) of Fox affiliate WRAZ, which is co-owned with WRAL-TV, was until recently a few blocks from WTVD's downtown Durham studios, but is now located at the WRAL studios in western Raleigh.
WXIA Atlanta has been moved from next door to WSB for some time now.
While WAGA is still far away from those two, on Briarcliff Road.
But until 1990, KTVF and KATN were a block apart, at 3rd and Lacey (Northward Building) and 2nd Ave. (top floor of the Lathrop Building) in downtown Fairbanks respectively.
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And yet no one who listened to either station noticed any difference when one of the moved.
In the present day, pretty much all of the Los Angeles-area stations in are spread-out locations throughout the region. As we may already know, KNBC and its Telemundo sister station KVEA recently re-located from Burbank to Universal City. The-now former NBC Burbank complex is located across the street from the Walt Disney Studios (which also houses the west coast headquarters of ABC), and is down the street from the Warner Brothers studio complex. Right down Route 134 from the Disney lot (going east), KABC-TV is a few minutes away in Glendale (near the 134/Interstate 5 interchange), as part of another business campus that Disney owns. Heading back west down 134, and connecting with US 101, is the CBS Studio Center, which houses KCBS-TV and KCAL-TV.
In West Los Angeles, the Fox duopoly of KTTV and KCOP are just west of the 10/405 interchange, and mutli-ethnic station KSCI sits right around the corner from them. Meanwhile, KTLA remains the only television station in the area based in Hollywood.
At various points in time, nearly TV station in town was based in Hollywood...KTTV (and Metromedia Square) were located across the street from KTLA until KTTV moved to West L.A. in 1997; Metromedia still owned the property even long after they sold most of their stations to News Corp. (thus forming the Fox network), before eventually selling the land to the L.A. Unified School District, where a high school currently sits on the land. KCAL (going back its days as KHJ-TV) was based at studios adjacent to the Paramount lot in Hollywood (in the same building that housed KTLA when it first launched in 1947), before joining KCBS at Columbia Square not long after being bought by what's now the CBS Corporation in 2002. KABC (and ABC West Coast) was based at what's now The Prospect Studios in the east Hollywood/Los Feliz neighborhood until 1999, when they made the move to their current home in Glendale (and ABC West Coast to Burbank). Disney/ABC still owns the lot, and it's pretty much being used nowadays as an auxiliary lot for Disney Burbank. Just a few blocks southwest of ABC/KABC was the KCET facility, right on Sunset Boulevard near Virgil Avenue. KCET is currently located in Burbank, near the WB/Disney/Burbank Studios neighborhood cluster.
KCOP, before it was bought by Fox (and eventually moving in with KTTV), was based at La Brea and Willoughby Avenue in what's essentially West Hollywood for decades. The old KCOP facility sat vacant for years, although Fox used it for some productions (most notably for Gordon Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen). They demolished the building a few years ago, and I believe now condos currently sit there.
In West Los Angeles, the Fox duopoly of KTTV and KCOP are just west of the 10/405 interchange, and mutli-ethnic station KSCI sits right around the corner from them. Meanwhile, KTLA remains the only television station in the area based in Hollywood.
At various points in time, nearly TV station in town was based in Hollywood...KTTV (and Metromedia Square) were located across the street from KTLA until KTTV moved to West L.A. in 1997; Metromedia still owned the property even long after they sold most of their stations to News Corp. (thus forming the Fox network), before eventually selling the land to the L.A. Unified School District, where a high school currently sits on the land. KCAL (going back its days as KHJ-TV) was based at studios adjacent to the Paramount lot in Hollywood (in the same building that housed KTLA when it first launched in 1947), before joining KCBS at Columbia Square not long after being bought by what's now the CBS Corporation in 2002. KABC (and ABC West Coast) was based at what's now The Prospect Studios in the east Hollywood/Los Feliz neighborhood until 1999, when they made the move to their current home in Glendale (and ABC West Coast to Burbank). Disney/ABC still owns the lot, and it's pretty much being used nowadays as an auxiliary lot for Disney Burbank. Just a few blocks southwest of ABC/KABC was the KCET facility, right on Sunset Boulevard near Virgil Avenue. KCET is currently located in Burbank, near the WB/Disney/Burbank Studios neighborhood cluster.
KCOP, before it was bought by Fox (and eventually moving in with KTTV), was based at La Brea and Willoughby Avenue in what's essentially West Hollywood for decades. The old KCOP facility sat vacant for years, although Fox used it for some productions (most notably for Gordon Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen). They demolished the building a few years ago, and I believe now condos currently sit there.
...in Chicago, WNBQ/5 (NBC) and WENR-TV/7 (ABC) shared offices and studios in the Merchandise Mart until 1953, when WENR-TV took over the old call sign and State Street studios of WBKB/4. Then, from 1966 to 1973, WBKB-TV/7 (which became WLS-TV in 1968) and WFLD/32 shared the same tower atop Marina City, a couple of blocks up State Street from the Chicago ABC studios; WFLD also had its studios in the Marina City complex at the time...
Since 2008, if I'm not mistaken, when WXIA moved from 1611 W. Peachtree to One Monroe Place, in the same building with sister station WATL. WAGA was at 1018 W. Peachtree (now the home of WPCH) at one time, but moved to 1551 Briarcliff Road in 1966, when Storer completed the antebellum mansion-looking building that was the company's trademark (it fit Atlanta nicely, not so nicely for Detroit's WJBK).
Speaking of Detroit, does anyone know how many stations are located on Southfield Road?
In Houston, KTRK (ABC o&o) and KRIV/KTXH (Fox o&o) are located roughly a mile from each other in SW Houston. 13 is on the north side of Bissonnet St near Buffalo Speedway while 26 is located on the US 59 frontage road just inside Loop 610.
The TV towers for most, if not all, of the stations are clustered together in Missouri City just outside the Houston city limits.
The TV towers for most, if not all, of the stations are clustered together in Missouri City just outside the Houston city limits.
For about 20 years, KDAL-AM-FM-TV and WAKX-AM-FM were directly across the street from each other in downtown Duluth, MN; KDAL in their own building (which looked like a mini-Television City) and WAKX in the Northland Building, an office block. Today, KDAL-AM-FM and WAKX-AM-FM (now KTCO and WGEE) have merged with two other stations and moved several times; KDLH (formerly KDAL-TV) shares space and staff with KBJR; and the KDAL building is being demolished to build an office complex for Dress Barn stores...
And in Birmingham, WIAT is less than a mile west of WBRC and WVTM.
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