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TV stations licensed to one state and transmitting from another state

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Here is another one WPWR-TV Chicago is licensed to Gary, Indiana but it's transmitter and offices are in Chicago. Note WPWR-TV shares offices with WFLD Fox Chicago.



WJYS-TV is licensed to Hammond, Indiana but it's main offices and transmitter are in Chicago.


WYIN-TV a secondary PBS affiliate in Chicago is licensed, with offices and transmitter in the Gary, Indiana area.
 
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Bethlehem FL is part of the Dothan market as it's about ten miles away from the state line and 34 miles from Dothan proper. Duopoly station and NBC affiliate WRGX/channel 23 shares the transmitter with WTVY. They're the only stations in Dothan with the transmitter in another state.
 
WTGS/channel 28 is licensed to Hardeeville S C while its transmitter is some ten miles west of Savannah GA.

Augusta GA stations WJBF/channel 6 (ABC), WRDW/channel 12 (CBS) and WAGT/channel 26 (NBC) all have transmitter sites in Beech Island S C.
 
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JeeperOne said:
Well Washington DC really isn't a state so that doesn't really count
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studio in Maryland
tower going to be in West Virginia
does it cover the topic of "TV stations licensed to one state and transmitting from another state"...yup

JeeperOne said:
as I'm sure you can probably get all the DC stations with a decent antenna from places like Hagerstown, MD
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nope. They are outside of the contour. That is why WDVM is moving their tower to West Virginia so they can cover DC. Right now its a SD subchannel on co-owned CW50 in DC.
Also a little thing called topography is why you cant get DC stations in Hagerstown...even with a 70 foot tower

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When I say "Decent", I mean ROOFTOP OR TOWER like the the ones that Jasob the Antenna Man in PA recommends)
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you mean Tyler?
 
Las Vegas rimshot KMCC Laughlin NV has its DTS1 transmitter north of Dolan Springs AZ. All of the Ion affiliate's local activity is handled from sister station KTNV's Las Vegas facilities.
 
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Because of the spectrum reallocation, WMYT licensed to Rock Hill SC is a subchannel of WJZY which has its transmitter in NC,

Same for WMYA Anderson SC which is a subchannel of WLOS Asheville NC.

WYCW licensed to Asheville NC is a subchannel of WSPA-TV Spartanburg SC.
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Also, WHNS in Greenville, SC was formerly licensed to Asheville until changing its COL to Greenville in 2002 to gain the rights to the SC Lottery (and also changed its branding from "Fox 21" to "Fox Carolina").

WMYA was WAIM from 1953-79, originally a dual ABC/CBS affiliate, dark until 1984 after a brief stint in 1979 as an indie, came back as WAXA in 1984 as an indie, then Fox from 1986-88 and an indie again until going dark in 1989 upon WLOS' purchase of the station to use it as a satellite from 1991-95). WAIM and WAXA both broadcast from studios in its city of license of Anderson, and WAXA used the same transmitter in Fountain Inn that WMYA uses today). It was also WFBC, an indie, from 1995-99 and WB affiliate WBSC until 2006.
 
Mr Tony said:
Also a little thing called topography is why you cant get DC stations in Hagerstown...even with a 70 foot tower
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This statement is not accurate. Many Hagerstown viewers reliably receive Washington, DC stations due specifically to that local terrain. The knife-edge diffraction brings the signals down to Earth on the far side of the ridge.

- Trip
 
tripinva said:
This statement is not accurate. Many Hagerstown viewers reliably receive Washington, DC stations due specifically to that local terrain. The knife-edge diffraction brings the signals down to Earth on the far side of the ridge.

- Trip
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However, there's certainly no way the DC signals get to Roanoke under any kind of normal conditions. It's far enough away that both Roanoke and Washington had full-power channel 7s back in the analog era.
 
fybush said:
However, there's certainly no way the DC signals get to Roanoke under any kind of normal conditions. It's far enough away that both Roanoke and Washington had full-power channel 7s back in the analog era.
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My TV Guide had both 7 and 4 every time WDBJ was listed, and 10 and 2 every time WSLS was. I'm guessing that had something to do with translators.
 
KYMA Yuma AZ and KECY El Centro CA share a studio in Yuma, but the transmitter for each station is in the Black Mtns. in California. Yuma and El Centro are about 60 miles apart but are in the same TV market. The transmitting site is located roughly equal distance from each city.

Gray Television holds a construction permit for KAZS Yuma, which will broadcast from the same Black Mtn. communications site and will likely have its studios in Yuma, if Gray chooses to have a studio. Otherwise, everything will probably be controlled out of Phoenix.

What's more, California is in the Pacific Time Zone and Arizona is in the Mountain Time Zone, so there is a also a time difference, but only for a little more than four months of the year, as most of AZ doesn't observe Daylight Saving Time.
 
WRBU 46 is licensed to East St. Louis, IL, but broadcasts from St. Louis.

Back in the early days of UHF, WTVI was licensed to Belleville, IL but broadcast from St. Louis. After a frequency change they officially moved to St. Louis and became KTVI.
 
WJAR-TV is licensed to Providence, RI but it's transmitter is in Rehoboth, Massachusetts.

WNAC-TV Providence does the same thing.


WPRI-TV, and WSBE are all example of stations in Rhode Island but their Transmitters are in Massachusetts.
 
fybush said:
However, there's certainly no way the DC signals get to Roanoke under any kind of normal conditions. It's far enough away that both Roanoke and Washington had full-power channel 7s back in the analog era.
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And WUSA 9 & WSLS 10 were also full power back then too
 
dhett said:
KYMA Yuma AZ and KECY El Centro CA share a studio in Yuma, but the transmitter for each station is in the Black Mtns. in California. Yuma and El Centro are about 60 miles apart but are in the same TV market. The transmitting site is located roughly equal distance from each city.
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I was going to mention the Yuma market as one that I knew about. Also, not a state, and no longer effective, but at one time a couple of San Diego TV stations had transmitters in Mexico. Some radio stations still do.
 
powers said:
I was going to mention the Yuma market as one that I knew about. Also, not a state, and no longer effective, but at one time a couple of San Diego TV stations had transmitters in Mexico. Some radio stations still do.
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But those were never "San Diego" TV and radio stations. They were/are Tijuana TV and radio stations that aimed their programming at audiences in San Diego.

The FCC can't license a station to transmit from outside the country.
 
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