Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The restriction requiring a common community of license was removed, and an owner of a station with a three-letter base call sign can now request the same three-letter call (with an "-FM", "-TV", or "-LP" suffix as necessary) for any station under common ownership. [7]
The last new three-letter call was assigned to station WIS (now WVOC) in Columbia, South Carolina on January 23, 1930. Since then, three-letter calls have only been assigned to stations, including FM (beginning in 1943) [1] and TV (beginning in 1946), [2] which are historically related to an AM station that was originally issued that call sign.
WKRG-TV first signed on the air September 5, 1955. [1] The station was founded by the architect and movie theater owner Kenneth R. Giddens, who also put WKRG radio (710 AM, now WNTM, and 99.9 FM, now WMXC) on the air. Owing to the radio station's ties with the CBS Radio Network, WKRG-TV has served as the market's CBS affiliate from its sign-on ...
In South America call signs have been a traditional way of identifying radio and TV stations. Some stations still broadcast their call signs a few times a day, but this practice is becoming very rare. Argentinian broadcast call signs consist of two or three letters followed by multiple numbers, the second and third letters indicating region.
On June 28, 2007, the call sign reverted to WNTM. On August 1, 2007, the station entered into a strategic partnership with WKRG-TV, similar to its previous relationship with WPMI-TV, gaining access to its former sister station's news and weather resources. However, the radio/tv news partnership has now been re-established with WPMI NBC 15. [3]
This is a list of full-service television stations in the United States having call signs which begin with the letter W. Stations licensed to transmit under low-power specifications—ex., WOCV-CD, W16DQ-D and WIFR-LD—have not been included.
The original call letters represented the initials of Kenneth R. Giddens, a movie theatre owner, broadcast pioneer, and architect. Giddens also owned WKRG 710 AM (now WNTM ). In 1955, he also put WKRG-TV on the air, the latter of which continues to broadcast with the same call letters.
Where a single broadcast outlet operates several transmitters with different call signs, create the article at the call sign which is considered the primary station and make the other call signs redirects to that call sign; if there are enough of these, a common name title may be advisable for the entire grouping (e.g. Wyoming Public Radio).