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The first night of regular viewing on WDAF-TV was October 16, 1949, when channel 4 presented a four-hour schedule including a dedication, a live telecast from the American Royal, films of the station's construction, local news (a telegraph tape moved in front of the camera to display the news [9]), and a salute to WDAF-TV by Arthur Godfrey. [10]
Some broadcasters that have ceased signing on and signing off in favour of 24-hour broadcasting may perform a sign-off sequence at a certain time in the night (usually between 10:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m.) as a formality to signify the end of its operating day (in the United States, the broadcast logging day ends at 12:00 midnight local time).
(WBTS-CD transmits over full-power WGBX-TV's spectrum, but is excluded as it is classified as a low-power license). A blue background indicates a station transmitting in the ATSC 3.0 format over-the-air; details about the station's alternate availability in the original ATSC format are contained in its article.
[11] [12] It was sold as a night-light from 1997 to 2005 by the Archie McPhee company, [13] reminiscent of the times when a fairly common late-night experience was to fall asleep while watching the late movie, only to awaken to the characteristic sine wave tone accompanying the Indian-head test pattern on a black-and-white TV screen.
In 1949, co-owned television station WDAF-TV came on the air. [10] It was the second TV station in Missouri and the first in Kansas City. Like WDAF (AM), it primarily was an NBC affiliate, although it carried shows from other networks as well. WDAF-TV became a Fox affiliate in 1994. In 1958, the Kansas City Star sold WDAF-AM-TV to National ...
TV by the Numbers, division of Zap2It; remains up in archive form, with no new content being added. Tribune Studios , television production and broadcast syndication company. Hollywood Today Live , a daily syndicated entertainment news program distributed by the acquired Media General stations, along with Fox Television Stations under a ...
The logo of Fox Broadcasting Company from 1987 to 1993. Between 1994 and 1996, a wide-ranging realignment of television network affiliations took place in the United States as the result of a multimillion-dollar deal between the Fox Broadcasting Company and New World Communications, announced on May 23, 1994.
KOTA-TV/KHSD-TV's call letters, ABC affiliation, and virtual channels 3 and 11 were moved to KEVN-TV/KIVV-TV, while KOTA-TV/KHSD-TV's former license was sold to Legacy Broadcasting, moved to channels 23/5 and became a MeTV affiliate, and KEVN-TV/KIVV-TV's Fox affiliation and virtual channel 7 was moved to a new low-power station (which Gray ...