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Which city has had the most three-lettered TV call signs licensed to it?

Ultimajock

Ultimajock

...I can only think of two apiece for New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland:

NEW YORK: WJZ-TV/7 (1948-1953), WOR-TV/9 (1949-1983)
LOS ANGELES: KFI-TV/9 (1949-1951), KHJ-TV (1951-1989)
CHICAGO: WLS-TV/7 (since 1968), WGN-TV/9 (since 1948)
DETROIT: WWJ-TV/4 (1947-1978), WWJ-TV/62 (since 1995)
CLEVELAND: KYW-TV/3 (1956-1965), WJW-TV/8 (1956-1977 and since 1985)

...have I overlooked any other cities of license? Have any had three?...
 
Except for WBZ-TV (CBS) channel 4 of Boston, I've never seen a 3-letter TV station call in New England. As for radio, I believe there's a KQV-AM 1410 in Pittsburgh.

P.S. WOI-TV (ABC) channel 5 is licensed to Ames, IA. I know you meant the Des Moines market though. ;)
 
Phoenix briefly had KOY-TV Channel 10, sharing time (alternate days, IIRC) & facilities with KOOL-TV for a few months in 1953. KOOL bought out KOY's interest after 6 months or so. KOY-TV operated as an independent, while KOOL-TV ran some ABC shows but not their full schedule.
 
St. Louis had KSD-TV on Channel 5 (now KSDK) from 1947-79 and KWK-TV on Channel 4 (later KMOX-TV, now KMOV) from 1954 until its 1958 sale to CBS.

Also, WIL Radio apparently applied to build WIL-TV on Channel 42 in 1953, but nothing ever came of that.
 
WOWT-TV (NBC) channel 6 of Omaha and WLWT-TV (NBC) channel 5 of Cincinnati both had three letters when they were early on (dropping the "T").
 
Working from Thomas White's outstanding research on 3-letter calls (http://earlyradiohistory.us/3myst.htm), I can't identify any market that's ever had more than two TV stations with three-letter base calls.

As for "XXX(TV)" versus "XXX-TV," White's list shows only four TV stations that currently don't have the -TV suffix: WIS Columbia SC, WJW Cleveland, KOB Albuquerque and KGW Portland. Chicago (WLS-TV/WGN-TV) and Des Moines-Ames (WHO-TV/WOI-DT) are the only markets that currently have two three-letter TV calls each.
 
KML-224 said:
WOWT-TV (NBC) channel 6 of Omaha and WLWT-TV (NBC) channel 5 of Cincinnati both had three letters when they were early on (dropping the "T").
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Channel 5 (originally Channel 4) in Cincinnati was always WLWT. The callsign was assigned in 1947 and the station went on the air in Februrary 1948.
 
Scott Fybush said:
Working from Thomas White's outstanding research on 3-letter calls (http://earlyradiohistory.us/3myst.htm), I can't identify any market that's ever had more than two TV stations with three-letter base calls.

As for "XXX(TV)" versus "XXX-TV," White's list shows only four TV stations that currently don't have the -TV suffix: WIS Columbia SC, WJW Cleveland, KOB Albuquerque and KGW Portland. Chicago (WLS-TV/WGN-TV) and Des Moines-Ames (WHO-TV/WOI-DT) are the only markets that currently have two three-letter TV calls each.
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Wikipedia has got a quick list of AM/FM/TV 3-letter calls, which they say needs updating. Maybe you guys can help.
 
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