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WCJB-TV (channel 20) is a television station in Gainesville, Florida, United States, affiliated with ABC and The CW Plus. Owned by Gray Media , the station maintains studios on Northwest 43rd Street in Gainesville, and its transmitter is located near Micanopy, Florida .
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.
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.
KTLA, KFWB, KTTV, KNX — you know the call letters of local radio and TV stations and probably have a jingle or two stuck in your head. But where did this broadcasting alphabet soup originate?
TV and DT: Commercial television was introduced in the United States in July 1941, and initially TV stations were assigned standard unique four-letter call signs. In August 1946 the "-TV" suffix was introduced, [ 11 ] which, like "-FM", included the restriction that paired stations had to have the same owners and be in the same community.
The call letters had been changed to WRUF-LD, matching the University of Florida's commercially operated WRUF radio stations (850 AM, and 103.7 FM), on November 19, 2010. [4] Regular WLUF programming ended on May 23, 2011, with WRUF-LD carrying NASA TV 's coverage of the final mission of Space Shuttle Endeavour in the interim.
WNBW-DT (channel 9) is a television station in Gainesville, Florida, United States, affiliated with NBC.It is owned by MPS Media, which maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with New Age Media, owner of High Springs–licensed dual CBS/MyNetworkTV affiliate WGFL (channel 28) and low-power, Class A Antenna TV affiliate WYME-CD (channel 45), for the provision of certain services.
This station signed on as a low-power station on channel 47 on November 30, 1989, [4] using the sequentially assigned W47BE call sign. [5] Moving to channel 65 (which had been previously reserved for commercial UHF broadcasts in the early 1950s which were never built [6] [7]) on April 15, 1998, [8] the calls were changed to W65DL, then adopted the WXOX-LP calls on January 12, 2000. [5]