The Last Major American city to get television

[genius]

No, because Portland, Oregon didn't have any TV stations until 1952, the same year KWGN signed on when KPTV signed on. Denver was #24, Portland #29 on the 1950 Census.

 

[bhayes1016]

Large cities that generally are part of another market still have at least one TV station licensed to them.. (City and rank in population)

Arlington, TX (#49),

KTXA is no longer licensed to Arlington.

 

[dhett]

Large cities that generally are part of another market still have at least one TV station licensed to them.. (City and rank in population)

Arlington, TX (#49),

KTXA is no longer licensed to Arlington.

KPXD ch 68 is still licensed to Arlington.

 

[dhett]

Though LA is an unusual exception as it's the only city to have all 7 VHF (the max VHF) licensed to it. (I know other MARKETS like NYC have 7 VHF stations but they are licensed to other cities. Like Channel 13 is Newark not NYC).

IIRC the same goes for Channel 9, licensed to Secaucus. But wasn't Ch. 9 licensed to NYC until around 1982-3?

ixnay

You are correct. As part of a political move to keep RKO from losing its license for WOR-TV, the station moved its license to Secaucus on 4/20/1983.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWOR#Troubles_with_the_FCC

 

[Corky Marlowe]

actually by 1964, all new tv's had to have a uhf tuner in them. At the time of WJAN-TV Canton's sign on, there were still places selling converters (1967)
I remember our old TV having a UHF converter...In a related question, when did new TV's have to be "cable ready"? Seems like it was well into the 80's.

 

[w9wi]

In a related question, when did new TV's have to be "cable ready"? Seems like it was well into the 80's.

There is no law/regulation requiring TVs to be "cable ready". It's something the marketplace has required.

 

[Gregg]

Nobody has mentioned Jersey City, NJ as a city with no TV station. I haven't checked the U.S. census, but Jersey City's website says it has a population of nearly 242 thousand.

In fact, Jersey City was the largest municipality in the U.S. to have NO broadcast media licensed to it. AM 620, at the time owned by The Sporting News, successfully got the FCC to grant it a power upgrade coupled with changing its City of License from Newark to Jersey City. So now lowly Jersey City has one AM station licensed to it... but still no TV or FM.

And because New Jersey had no commecial VHF station licensed to it, as mentioned above, General Tire was able to save WWOR 9's license (and millions of dollars that went with it) by agreeing to move its city of license from NYC to a New Jersey municipality.

Why Secaucus which is not even a city? Secaucus is much smaller than many NJ cities nearby. Well, that happened to be where there were a lot of new office parks being built within a short drive of the Lincoln Tunnel. So the station moved into a new building in that community and used Secaucus as its new city of license. And if its TV trucks needed to cover something in NYC, it wasn't very far.

Secaucus is in the same county as Jersey City but I guess nobody thought to make Jersey City Channel 9's city of license, even though WWOR's studios and operations in Secaucus are close enough that it would have been within FCC rules to do that.





Gregg
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[dhett]

In fact, Jersey City was the largest municipality in the U.S. to have NO broadcast media licensed to it. AM 620, at the time owned by The Sporting News, successfully got the FCC to grant it a power upgrade coupled with changing its City of License from Newark to Jersey City. So now lowly Jersey City has one AM station licensed to it... but still no TV or FM.

Actually, Jersey City has two AM stations. WWRU 1660 moved its COL from Elizabeth to Jersey City in 1999.