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Stations on PSIP channels 2-13 (post-VHF) that don't use their channel position?

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bringbackradio

The following stations come to mind:

KNTV channel 11 San Jose - has called itself "NBC Bay Area" since 2008.
WBZ channel 4 Boston - simply "WBZ" since Super Bowl XLI in 2007.

Anymore?
 
It does indeed. How about WTAJ in Altoona, PA? They appear to have dropped any trace of "channel 10" from their branding.
 
WOAY-Bluefield/Beckley West Virginia has gone by it's OTA digitial assignment (Channel 50) since the 2009 switch. It's analog position number (and thus it's PSIP, had they chosen to utilize it) was Channel 4.
 
WINK-TV in Fort Myers, Florida brands solely as "WINK," without using a channel number.
 
AKA said:
Lots of PBS stations no longer brand with their channel numbers.
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That's not true with WTTW (former VHF station) & WYCC in Chicago (always been UHF). WTTW still identifies with channel 11 in their branding on the main channel, while on 11.2, they identify that channel as WTTW Prime. For WYCC, they may not always say their channel number, but it's still included in their station identification & visual branding (up until 2 or 3 years ago, they used to ID with both their analog & digital channels , WYCC 20/21DT Chicago. WYIN Gary, IN however dropped their channel from their branding, but ID with their RF channel number during station identification. If the FCC hadn't forced stations to continue using their former analog channels for their virtual channels, WYIN would have used channel 17 in their branding, since they wanted to ID as channel 17, & not 56, which is why they dropped the channel number from their branding (besides, they had one of the worst signals in the analog era, that people in Gary, IN could not get WYIN's signal reliably, even with the antenna pointed toward Cedar Lake, IN).

Now for other stations in Chicago that were formerly VHF & only use it for their virtual channel (WBBM-TV is the only full power VHF in the digital era), they haven't dropped their channel number at all, since its known all too well by the public. It's mainly been UHF stations that were UHF in the analog era that dropped their channel number from their branding. WCIU used to heavily promote themselves on channel 26. Now, they mainly only mention channel number when mentioning where to find The U, The U Too, MeTV, MeToo (Chicago's MeTV), This TV (This TV moves to WGN-TV in September), & Bounce. Otherwise, channel number isn't in their branding. WFLD for many years only called themselves Fox Chicago, but went back to adding 32 in the branding. WCPX is Ion Television, & since it's on the bird 24/7, channel branding never happens on Ion O&O stations (they never used channel branding in the Pax days either). WSNS only calls themselves Telemundo Chicago, & Univision's WGBO-DT as Univision Chicago.
 
AKA said:
Lots of PBS stations no longer brand with their channel numbers.
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In fact, many simply use the name of the organization they are affiliated with for branding

Examples are right here in Denver as KRMA 6 calls itself Rocky Mountain PBS while KBDI 12 calls itself Colorado Public Television. They are used on & off air

Cheers & 73 ;D
 
This one is rather unique but there's NBC O&O KNSD in San Diego. They're on Digital 40, PSIP 39 yet they use their cable channel (Channel 7) & use the newscast title of NBC 7 News

Another one is KOAA in Colorado Springs/Pueblo, CO. According to Wikipedia, the station is on Digital 42, PSIP 5 but comes with a Digital Translator (Which was an analog one prior to the DTV transition) on Channel 30 AND once ID'd itself as KOAA 5/30. While they don't do that now, they also don't use NBC branding either (In fact, they never have). Like KUSA 9 here in Denver, KOAA 5 uses their newscast name for branding as they call themselves News 5

Cheers & 73 ;D
 
vchimpanzee said:
Dave said:
If the FCC hadn't forced stations to continue using their former analog channels for their virtual channels
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But WLXI Greensboro was 61 and now uses 43, also its RF channel.
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A handful of informal exceptions have been made for stations with virtual channels 52 and above; because of the way the standards are written for virtual channels, there's no way this can cause any conflicts down the road. (Why is this? Because no new station can ever be assigned to RF channel 61. If it were, the standards specify that the new RF 61 would become virtual 43, which would prohibit WLXI from using virtual 43.)

Another one that doesn't use its channel in its branding at all is KTTC in Rochester, Minnesota, which is both RF and virtual channel 10. They brand exclusively with their callsign.

So does the pairing of KDLT/KDLV in Sioux Falls/Mitchell, South Dakota. What's now KDLV in Mitchell is the older of the two simulcast signals, dating back to the 1950s on channel 5. At one time, they put up a tall tower halfway between Mitchell and Sioux Falls (60+ miles) to serve both communities; much later, they got a license for channel 46 right in Sioux Falls, moved the KDLT callsign there, and moved channel 5 (now KDLV) back to Mitchell. All their branding is simply "KDLT," with no mention of "5" or "46." (The RF channels now are 26 and 47, respectively.)
 
Pat Cook said:
This one is rather unique but there's NBC O&O KNSD in San Diego. They're on Digital 40, PSIP 39 yet they use their cable channel (Channel 7) & use the newscast title of NBC 7 News
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WMYT in Charlotte, NC does something similar. Digital 39, PSIP 55 but it's called My 12 because some cable systems, though strangely not most, put it on 12.
 
There are dozens of stations that use their cable channel position as their main on-air identifier, including pretty much the entire markets of Fort Myers-Naples and Palm Springs. What, if anything, does that have to do with the original question? (Wait - I'll answer that: the only Fort Myers commercial station that doesn't brand with its cable channel is also the only heritage VHF station in town, WINK-TV 11. They don't brand with a channel number at all, and so they do fit the original question.)

Regardless of how they brand their product on-screen, all the former UHF stations in Fort Myers and Palm Springs - and WMYT, for that matter - use their former analog UHF channel as their over-the-air virtual channel. WMYT over the air is "55.1," not "12.1."
 
AKA commented: said:
Lots of PBS stations no longer brand with their channel numbers.
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Many PBS member stations are part of statewide networks, with multiple stations, so it would make sense to brand the networks instead of channel positions of the "key" stations.

As an example, in Connecticut, Connecticut Public Television brands itself "CPTV" instead of "Channel 24", the old analog channel position of flagship WEDH-24 in Hartford.
 
vchimpanzee said:
Pat Cook said:
This one is rather unique but there's NBC O&O KNSD in San Diego. They're on Digital 40, PSIP 39 yet they use their cable channel (Channel 7) & use the newscast title of NBC 7 News
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WMYT in Charlotte, NC does something similar. Digital 39, PSIP 55 but it's called My 12 because some cable systems, though strangely not most, put it on 12.
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It'll probably be a matter of time before Fox makes WMYT change to "My 55" since it now owns it alongside the new "Fox 46 Carolinas."
 
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