I had a chance to see an F.C.C. Public Notice, three page document entitled "Status of Television Broadcast Applications", along with three of the 4 pages of attachments called "Applications Designated For Hearing and Awaiting Decision". The documents are dated September 30, 1946.
"The table shows the number of licensed commercial television stations, the number of construction permits authorized for such stations, and the number of applications pending for new commercial stations as of September 25, 1946". It lists call letters, frequency (mc), Effective Peak Power Radiated Aural and Visual, and the antenna height above average terrain. Not all of the stations were licensed yet. Those that were include WCBS in New York, the Allen B. DuMont lab's WABD also in N.Y. (with DuMont also building WTTG in Washington, D.C.). There is also WBKB in Chicago, General Electric's WRGB in Schenectady New York, WPTZ in Philadelphia owned by Philco on channel 3...
The biggest group was the NBC group who had their already licensed station, WNBT Channel 4 in New York, plus two others proposed to go on channel 4 (Cleveland, and Washington D.C.) and their proposed Chicago station on channel 5. The Cleveland and Chicago stations did not have call letters listed on this document. In Cleveland, there was also the yet-to-be-licensed WEWS, channel 5 owned by Scripps-Howard Radio, Inc. WEWS stayed on Channel 5 with these same call letters for over 60 years, and still associate themselves with that frequency today.
On the first 3 main pages, there were 37 applications/already licensed stations listed.
"The table shows the number of licensed commercial television stations, the number of construction permits authorized for such stations, and the number of applications pending for new commercial stations as of September 25, 1946". It lists call letters, frequency (mc), Effective Peak Power Radiated Aural and Visual, and the antenna height above average terrain. Not all of the stations were licensed yet. Those that were include WCBS in New York, the Allen B. DuMont lab's WABD also in N.Y. (with DuMont also building WTTG in Washington, D.C.). There is also WBKB in Chicago, General Electric's WRGB in Schenectady New York, WPTZ in Philadelphia owned by Philco on channel 3...
The biggest group was the NBC group who had their already licensed station, WNBT Channel 4 in New York, plus two others proposed to go on channel 4 (Cleveland, and Washington D.C.) and their proposed Chicago station on channel 5. The Cleveland and Chicago stations did not have call letters listed on this document. In Cleveland, there was also the yet-to-be-licensed WEWS, channel 5 owned by Scripps-Howard Radio, Inc. WEWS stayed on Channel 5 with these same call letters for over 60 years, and still associate themselves with that frequency today.
On the first 3 main pages, there were 37 applications/already licensed stations listed.