I wondered about those letters because Charlotte's PBS station always had them from the time it signed on.
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TV stations licensed to one state and transmitting from another state
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Theres CBET-TV Windsor, Ontario whose OTA signals are reached from Detroit.
At one point when CBET-TV was CKLW-TV it was a notable for being a Canadian station that was owned by RKO General an American Company. In RKO's case they marketed CKLW as a Detroit TV station when they owned it.
At one point when CBET-TV was CKLW-TV it was a notable for being a Canadian station that was owned by RKO General an American Company. In RKO's case they marketed CKLW as a Detroit TV station when they owned it.
WTVI (the St. Louis-area version) was on channel 54 originally but bought a defunct UHF station in St. Louis and moved to channel 36 in 1955. WTVI-then-KTVI also moved into the defunct station's location at 5915 Berthold Avenue, where KTVI was based for many years afterwards.
Strangely, after the move to Missouri, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch still occasionally referred to the station as WTVI well into 1956!
KTVI petitioned the FCC to be assigned the channel 2 allocation in Springfield, Illinois; the FCC swapped the channel 2 and 36 allocations as part of VHF/UHF de-intermixture; KTVI began operations on channel 2 on April 15, 1957 after being off the air altogether since March 20 of that year.
(This description just scratches the surface: St. Louis TV allocations became quite a tangled mess, involving court cases, the assignment of channel 11, the purchase of channel 4 by CBS after it had been awarded channel 11, congressional hearings, and a Supreme Court case. But KTVI managed to stay on channel 2.)
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WMDE is licensed to Dover, DE; tower in Wye Mills, MD and targets the Washington DC area. Studios are near New York.
Until 1976, KTVO, licensed to Kirksville, Mo., had most of its local programming originating from its studio in Ottumwa, Iowa, shared with co-owned KBIZ radio. The network feed - first CBS, then ABC - came from Des Moines via Ottumwa via a Northwestern Bell relay. There was still a studio at the Missouri transmitter site near Lancaster. Newscasts often originated from both states. When color cameras came along circa 1968, there was one color camera at the Ottumwa studios and one at the Lancaster site. The color film chain was in Ottumwa as were the videotape machines. In 1976, KTVO moved all studios to its present location just north of Kirksville. I've never been able to find evidence to back up the rumors I heard that the FCC caught on to the dual-studio operation and made noises about not getting a main studio waiver to reflect the predominance of the Ottumwa studios in the station's operations. One ironic note is that, since the 1976 move, the Kirksville economy (and population) has grown slowly due to the presence of a state university and a college of osteopathic medicine while the Ottumwa economy and population have declined due to the loss of several major industries.
Good point. As I mentioned, they weren't a different state, but interesting being from a different country. In fact, in 1989 I worked on-air for XHITZ-FM 90.3. Back then we were required to work at the transmitter site in Tijuana.
Another set of call letters that used to be in my area.
Those would be great letters for a superstation specializing in crime.
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